Lilly Saini Singh is a Canadian YouTuber, comedian, talk show host and actress, who started her YouTube channel in 2010 under the pseudonym IISuperwomanII. Her association with cinema began in 2014 in movie Gulaab Gang, in which she appeared as herself and sang the song Mauj Ki Malharein with Sadhu Sushil Tiwari and Chaittali Shrivasttava.
Lilly had intended to go to graduate school as her parents had requested but ended up making YouTube videos. She decided that she would return to graduate school if her YouTube career did not succeed. Her most popular video is How Girls Get Ready and her most popular series features her fictional parents, Paramjeet and Manjeet, both played by Singh herself, reacting to trending and controversial videos.
She created a second channel called SuperwomanVlogs, now titled Lilly Singh Vlogs, in December 2011 where she chronicles her daily activities and includes behind the scenes footage from her videos. She used it as a second channel to upload videos until August 2014, when she began uploading daily vlogs. Originally uploading daily, she now uploads several times a week. In 2017, she was ranked tenth on the Forbes list of the world's highest-paid YouTube stars, earning a reported $10.5 million.
FILMS:
Lilly had in 2011 appeared as a Bhangra dancer in a wedding scene in Canadian sports-comedy movie Breakaway, which had starred Vinay Virmani opposite Camilla Belle, with Rob Lowe, Russell Peters and Anupam Kher in pivotal roles. She also made an appearance in Hindi movie Thank You, again as a background Bhangra dancer.
In 2014, Lilly made a guest appearance in Canadian movie Dr. Cabbie which had starred Kunal Nayyar, Vinay Virmani, and Adrianne Palicki. Then in 2016, she starred in documentary film A Trip to Unicorn Island, which was about her ambitious 27 city world tour. The film went on to receive the Streamy Award for Best Feature. The same year she was the voice for Misty/Bubbles in animation movie Ice Age: Collision Course. Her next appearance was in American comedy Bad Moms (2016), followed by a cameo appearance in 2017 in movie F the Prom.
Her television appearances include Lana Steele: Makeup Spy (2015), Bizaardvark (2017), Fahrenheit 451 (2018), and A Little Late with Lilly Singh (2019). Her web series are Lana Steele: Makeup Spy (2015), Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles (2015), and Epic Rap Battles of History (2015).
PERSONAL LIFE:
Lilly Saini Singh was born on September 26, 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario to Malwinder Kaur and Sukhwinder Singh, who were originally from Hoshiarpur, Punjab, and she has an older sister. She studied at the Mary Shadd Public School in Scarborough, Canada and graduated from Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute. In 2010 she graduated from York University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. In December 2015 she moved to Los Angeles from Canada, and in February 2019, Lilly came out as bisexual to the public via social media.
SOCIAL:
Lilly Singh updates her followers through Facebook - Lilly Singh/@LillySingh, Twitter - Lilly Singh/@Lilly, and Instagram - Lilly Singh/@lilly.