Celebrities: Indira Weis photoshoot for Playboy

Indira Weis, born name Verena Weis (born September 30, 1979, Groß-Gerau, Hesse, Germany) is a German singer and actress, who rose to fame as a member of the R&B/Pop group Bro'Sis. She is currently working on a solo career.



Weis was the second daughter born to her mother Manju, an Indian interpreter and her German father Helmut, a retired grammar school teacher. Her one year older sister works as a flight attendant. She received the nickname "Indira" on a trip to India where she has relatives.

Weis began at the age of five years with piano lessons and guitar lessons. After the Abitur she began a study of the music sciences and American studies. She broke them to take instead theatrical lessons with main focus Song and Dance at the international theatrical school in Munich. There she helped in a Hip Hop tape and started to work as a model. Also she brokeoff the theatrical school after one year and finished a training period in an Internet agency. Last she worked before her application with Popstars as a producer with the Frankfurt radio station Planet Radio.

Recently, after spending more than a year in Israel, Verena made an Orthodox Conversion to Judaism. Her Hebrew name is Shira, meaning "Song" in Hebrew.

After going solo Indira concentrated on her acting career. After spending more than a year studying religion in Israel, Verena converted to orthodox Judaism. Her Hebrew name is Shira, meaning "singing" in Hebrew. In September 2009, she released her debut single, a cover version of the Rudi Carrell single Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?. She recorded a video for her second single "Oh" in September 2006 but the plans to release the video were dropped. "It was just too much for me", remembered Indira. Against her will the video premiered in its entirety on YouTube on November 6, 2009 and received harsh criticism.[5] On June 25, 2010, she released her second single Beautiful Destination.

Film and television
2004: SOKO Köln (ZDF)
2005: Letztes Kapitel (ZDF)
2005: SOKO Kitzbühel - Blumen für die Diva (ZDF)
2007: Der Kriminalist - Abwärts (ZDF)
2008: Das Traumhotel - Karibik (ARD)
2008: Arbeitsaufenthalt in Israel
2011: Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus! (Series 5)

Movies
2005: Helloh
2007: Miss Lucifer!
2009: Snowblind

Theater
1993: Igelhans, Nationaltheater Mannheim
1995: The Winter's Tale, Staatstheater Darmstadt
1998: West Side Story (Maria), Manchester
2005: Quo Vadis, Theater Trier

Awards
2002: New Faces Award, „Trendsetter of the year“