Zaarin Bushra
Acting
Biography
Zaarin Bushra is an award-winning actor, and filmmaker from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is known for her role in White Elephant (CBC Gem), which earned her the Standout Actress in a Feature Film at the Reelworld Film Festival 2020 and received great acclaim at Canadian Film Fest 2021. Zaarin was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is of Bengali descent.
Known For

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
The Handmaid's Tale

Life, death and drama at 20,000 feet. The series weaves together intense character journeys and high-stakes medical rescues, as we follow the triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations of budding nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in remote Northern Canada. They’re all in over their heads, and on their own, with no one to rely on but each other.
SkyMed

In 1993, six months after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.
Clarice

The year is 1975. Ellen, a girl in middle school, is urged to seek out her own sexual education when she's dissatisfied with the lesson she's given in her home economics class.
The Sex Act

It’s 1996. Pooja is a teenage girl with a crush on a white boy, just like the ones in the movies she loves. But having grown up in a mostly Black and Brown neighbourhood, there is a hostile cultural divide between their friends. But, this isn’t a love story – this is a self-love story.
White Elephant

The story goes that girls fleeing abuse and despair can find refuge in the Maidenswood at the edge of town, where they transform into the forest. Reeling from the return of her abusive father, Diana begins to hear the Maidenswood's call.
The Maidenswood

In the dimly lit halls of an exclusive art auction, Kai Lee, a celebrated artist drowning in the shadows of his own vices, finds solace in the allure of free booze. Little does he know, his intoxicated sanctuary is about to shatter. In a surreal twist of fate, two enigmatic young women materialize, each bearing a haunting secret: they both claim to be his daughters. As the night unfolds, the tangled webs of Kai's past unravel, revealing a cryptic connection that threatens to consume him. Amidst the seductive glimmer of the auction house, a mysterious saga of identity, deception, and redemption begins, casting Kai into a labyrinth of unanswered questions and eerie uncertainties.