Noureen DeWulf

Noureen DeWulf (nee Ahmed) is an American actress from the United States. She is best known for her roles in film films like West Bank Story (2005), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) and The Back-up Plan (2010). From 2012 to 2014, she was a character on the sitcom Anger Management as Lacey. DeWulf was born Noureen Ahmed in New York City to Gujarati Indian parents from Pune, Maharashtra, India and was raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. She was educated as a Nizari Ismaili Muslim. She has two sisters. Aziza, her older sister, is a Boston-based professor of law at Northeastern University. Sara, her younger sister is a San Francisco lawyer. DeWulf was a Boston University student and studied international relations and theatre. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating to pursue acting as a profession. She is fluent in Hindi, Urdu, and Gujarati. DeWulf started her acting career with the Oscar Award-winning short film West Bank Story, where she played the lead role of Fatima the singing and dancing Palestinian cashier who finds love with an Israeli soldier. Since then she has been appearing in comedic television series and movies. In 2009-2011, she was in the lead role in NBC's Outsourced and TNT's Hawthorne and MTV's The Hard Times of RJ Berger as well as in the Lifetime miniseries Maneater.DeWulf has been featured in a number of box-office hits that include Ocean's Thirteen (2007), and The Back-up Plan (2010). She played opposite Matthew McConaughey in the romantic comedy film Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), and played opposite Jeremy Piven in The Goods: Live Hard and Sell Hard (2009). The Taqwacores (2010) was her debut film. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2010. She was a part of The Taqwacores (2010) that premiered at the Sundance Film festival in the year 2010. In 2010, she was featured in Nylon's "Top 30 under 30’ list for 2009 [citation needed] DeWulf was also featured in picture-based articles for Details, Men's Health and Zink, Giant, Complex and more.