Biografie

Her last name is pronounced "Shreeky".

She lost both her parents to colon cancer. Her mother Liliane passed away when she was 16 in 1991 and her father Albert when she was 36 in 2011.

Is an alumna of the Arts York Drama Program at Unionville High School, a school that specializes in the creative arts.

Daughter of Sephardi Jewish immigrants from Morocco, Albert Chriqui (b. Rabat) and wife Liliane Benisty (b. Casablanca) and younger sister of Serge Chriqui and Laurence Chriqui, all raised for several years in Unionville, Ontario. She has relatives in Israel. Her family practiced Orthodox Judaism in the Sephardic tradition.

Ranked #1 on AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2010 Edition.

(On Judaism) You know I grew up with the same holidays and such, in an Orthodox manner, in a Kosher home, and all of that. And those are strict rules to live by that I think really shape your personality and discipline. I think they definitely, whether I knew it at the time or not, subconsciously it definitely seeped in to just create a good balance.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

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