Simi Garewal (or Simi Grewal) is a Punjabi Hindi movie actor known to be among the bold performers who shot for the film Mere Naam Joker. She was born on 17th October, 1947 in Punjab, India.

She was brought up in England and has an English accent, perhaps one of the reasons for landing her first acting in an English-language movie: Tarzan Goes to India in 1962. She had to learn Hindi when she came back to India as a teen to be an actress. She was accorded leading roles in many Bollywood movies in 1960’s and 1970’s like Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in a Forest) by Satyajit Ray, Padatik (The Pedestrian) by Mrinal Sen, Do Badan by Raj Khosla, Mera Naam Joker by Raj Kapoor, among others.

She starred in Karz (1980) and in Maharajas (1987), a BBC docu-drama adapted from the book by Charles Allen. In early eighties, she turned her attention to writing and directing, thereby forming her own company, Siga Arts International. She produced a TV series called A Woman’s World (1983) and made a documentary called Living Legend Raj Kapoor (1984) that was aired in Channel Four UK.

She produced a Hindi feature film and made TV commercials, which won her the first prize in the 1988 Paters Award in Australia. In 1999 she won the Screen Awards for Best Talk Show and Best Anchor. Today, she is the anchor of the talk show Rendezvous With Simi Garewal. She is popularly known as “Lady in White” due to her signature white clothes.