Persis Khambatta

Named Miss India in 1965, four years after she began modeling at age 13, Khambatta was soon acting in commercials for Air India and starring in Hindi-language films. Her international debut film role was in the 1975 political thriller "The Wilby Conspiracy". The film, set in apartheid-era South Africa, co-starred Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine. In 1976 she appeared alongside Richard Attenborough and Michael York in the historical drama …