That Girl Next to J Lo

Her mother is from Pune and her father is American. While with mom and friends,DeWulf lapses into Urdu,Hindi and even Gujarati. “While growing up I watched lot of Amitabh Bachchan movies,” she recalls.

DeWulf says she is fortunate for not being typecast as an Asian in Hollywood . “There are a lot of my colleagues of Indian origin who have been struggling with such stereotypes,” says DeWulf,who once guest starred in the US television series Numbers as a Telugu-speaking girl who has come to donate her kidneys. “But that was not much of a stereotype since I enjoyed the exposure of portraying that role,” she adds. Now she would like to crossover — to Bollywood. For DeWulf,it is more than a back-up plan.