Carishma Basday is a professional actress, dancer and model. The dynamic starlet has always had a penchant for the limelight. Starting Ballet at age 4 she has since trained in many styles of dancing including modern dance, jazz, contemporary, hip hop, belly dancing, funk, fusion, salsa and Latin American. In 2005 she traveled to Chicago as an exchange student. While fulfilling her duty as an exchange student by helping various charities such as hurricane Katrina victims and educating people about her beloved South Africa, she also found the time to be a journalist for a local paper, a news anchor and journalist for a local news channel, and follow her dreams of becoming a professional actress and dancer by landing a role in the play Les Miserables and a dancing show. In 2008 she obtained her degree in performing arts and media studies. She also acquired a diploma in behind the scenes work such as editing, scriptwriting, lighting, directing and producing. Carishma then decided to follow her dreams to Cape Town where she attended Act Cape Town where she trained as a film actress. She signed with the Artists One agency in 2009 and has never looked back. Having done many TV commercials both nationally and internationally she returned to her love of theatre in 2010 with the phenomenal award winning site-specific theatre spectacular Betesda directed by Nicola Hanekom, and then went on to complete the muliti-award winning Hanekom trilogy with Babbel in 2012. She has recently shot two feature films 31 Million Reasons in 2010 directed my John Barker and starred in her first leading role as the love interest of famed comedian Riaad Moosa in Material directed by the award winning Craig Freimond.