Roy Basheer

Roy Basheer (2019)

**Roy Azza Basheer** (born May 18, 1984) is an Australian actress, model, television personality and social activist.

## Biography

### Early Life

Roy Azza Basheer was born on May 18, 1984 in Canberra Hospital in the Garran suburb of Woden Valley district, Canberra, Australia's capital. Her father Fahim Basheer (b. July 5, 1953), an Omani immigrant to Australia, came to the country with his brother Adnan in August 1979. They lived together in a bungalow in the Mawson, Woden Valley district, Canberra. In May 1980, they opened an Arabic restaurant and named it Muscat after Oman's capital. Her father and uncle received their Australian citizenship in August 1983. On February 21, 1984, the first episode of Farih and Adnan's television show "Let's Save the Restaurant", was aired. In June 1985, they opened their second restaurant named Arabica. Her mother Basma (née Mabrouk, b. October 23, 1958) is Tunisian. She was born in Tunis to a Muslim father and Maghrebi Jewish mother. Basma's father left family when she was only seven months, then with her mother she moved to Cairo, Egypt and later to Bat Yam, Israel, before settling in Lille, France in September 1959. In July 1965, thanks to Basma's mother's friend, they were able to move to Canberra. They lived in a small apartament for the first two years of their living there. In December 1968, Basma's mother married Australian judge Benjamin Norton. Before marriage, her mother was a babysitter to his two sons. Basma graduated law from University of Canberra. Her parents met for the first at the New Year's Eve party 1982. They wed on July 6, 1983, after three months of dating. They had their first child Roy in May 1984, and second Zahra Joe on January 17, 1986. Both sisters graduated Canberra College, Woden Valley.

### Personal Life

She is irreligious. Her younger paternal first cousin is Australian actress Sharli Basheer. She wed her first husband Matt Stanton, the drummer of an Australian rock band The Masks, on January 9, 2005 in Sydney. They spend their honeymoon in Milan, Italy. She and Stanton met in May 2003, when she was invited to appear in music video of their song "Wild One". They started dating on June 25, 2003 and got engaged on June 25, 2004, exactly one year after starting dating. She and Stanton have two children together, daughter Zen Adelaide Holland (born June 28, 2006) and son Rocco Dashiell Axton (born December 15, 2007). Week before Christmas Eve 2012, couple announced that they are in separation. Stanton filed for divorce in May 2013 and their divorce was finalized four months later, in September 2013. She and Stanton have shared custody on their children. In July 2015, she announced that she is dating television host and journalist, Gareth Dunn. They welcomed their daughter Cerys Shadi Lilou on February 8, 2018. Gareth proposed to her on May 26, 2019 and the couple wed on April 17, 2020 in Cardiff, Wales and spent their honeymoon in Glasgow, Scotland. At their wedding, Sharli was her bridesmaid. She and Dunn choose Cardiff and Glasgow as place of their wedding and place of their honeymoon respectively, because Dunn's parents came from this cities. In September 2020, they announced that they are moving to Melbourne.