Sweta Lamichhane, 1st Nepali Actress In Hollywood

This is what 26-year-old Sweta Lamichhane has discovered after what many might see as a story of personal conflict, resistance, and struggle with the self, and a resolution finally made by the decision to listen to her heart.

Who would not like to cherish and pursue a career in the world’s most elite fighting force, the US Marine Corps? Being the first Nepali woman to join the force, Lamichchane did achieve something that many would only dream of. But Lamichhane has now set herself another goal; of being the first Nepali woman to win an Oscar.

She was born in Patan Hospital in the Kathmandu Valley in 1983. When she was two years old, her father moved to Australia with a scholarship at the James Cook University, and then to the US. “Sweta developed a passion for acting at a very early age,” says her sister Priyanka Lamichhane, “She had an immensely vivid imagination and knew that acting was what she wanted to do.” And it was this call of the heart that drove her later in life to seek an honourable discharge from the Marine Corps to try and carve out a career for herself in Hollywood.

(source: Ekantipur.com)