Sujata Day


Sujata Choudhury, credited professionally as Sujata Day, is an American actress, model and screenwriter. She is best known as CeeCee in the Issa Rae web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. Day is slated to direct her first film, Definition Please, which will be shot in the summer of 2019.

Early life

The daughter of an India born mechanical engineer and housewife, Sujata became involved in the performing arts at a very young age. She began with dance and then became equally interested in acting, singing and musical theater. She continued to study and perform in school and community productions before heading west to pursue a professional acting career in Hollywood.

Career

Sujata has appeared in a wide variety of television shows such as The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Campus Ladies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 7th Heaven, Greek, and The Loop. In 2007, she played a supporting role in the Warner Bros.-produced Sublime. She can be seen alongside Danny Glover and Snoop Doggy Dogg in the independent film Down for Life which premiered to rave reviews at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2009 she appeared in the horror/comedy film , which screened at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival.
She starred as CeCe in the Issa Rae-created web comedy series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. She continued her work with Rae on the HBO series, Insecure.
In 2017, Day wrote, produced, directed and starred in a film called Cowboy and Indian, to be developed into a television series.
On May 30, 2019, it was announced that Day will direct a film called Definition, Please, for which she also wrote the script. It will star Ritesh Rajan and Jake Choi and will shoot on location in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in the summer of 2019.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Production