Improvised the entire baseball bat scene, as Nilma, in Garry Marshall's Raising Helen. Her unintended curse words in Hindi, Spanish and Chinese had to be edited out of the scene.
Daughter of actors Madhur Jaffrey and Saeed Jaffrey. Her parents were born in India. Her mother was also a food and travel writer.
Graduated from Vassar College with a High Honors degree in Chinese Language and Literature.
Danced as a child with the Joffrey ballet at City Center in NYC.
Daughter of actress and cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey and actor Saeed Jaffrey. Stepfather Sanford Allen, a violinist, was the first African American musician in the New York Philharmonic.