Nazneen Contractor

Acting

Nazneen Contractor

Born 1982-08-26 · Mumbai, India

Nazneen Contractor is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Layla Hourani on CBC's The Border, and, more recently, as Kayla Hassan on 24. She is of Gujarati Parsi descent. She married fellow Canadian actor and 24 co-star Carlo Rota on April 1, 2010.

Acting credits

Star Trek Into Darkness poster
7.3

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Star Trek Into Darkness

2013

Spiral: From the Book of Saw poster
5.9

Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

Spiral: From the Book of Saw

2021

Roman J. Israel, Esq. poster
6.3

Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

2017

Trigger Point poster
6.2

Nicolas Shaw is a retired U.S. special operative who becomes part of an elite 'invisible' team that quietly takes out the worst villains around the world.

Trigger Point

2021

A Winter Getaway poster
6.4

When an average guy is gifted a luxury trip, he is mistaken as a millionaire. But then, sparks fly with the lovely concierge. Will she feel the same way about him when she learns the truth?

A Winter Getaway

2021

Parts Per Billion poster
4.4

The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life-altering decisions in the face of a disastrous war. Inspired and sometimes blinded by their love, Len, Mia, Andy, Esther, Anna and Erik are as flawed and beautiful as any of the billions who are facing this human-made biological disaster.

Parts Per Billion

2014

The Perfect Pairing poster
6.1

A food and wine critic who hits her head and loses memory while accidentally visiting a winery she panned in the past, owned and operated by single dad Michael.

The Perfect Pairing

2022

Pegasus vs. Chimera poster
3.7

With help from a powerful witch, a blacksmith and a warrior princess summon Pegasus to help them defeat Chimera and save their kingdom from destruction.

Pegasus vs. Chimera

2012

The Matthew Shepard Story poster
5.6

In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the final days of Matthew's killers' trial—and the weeks leading to Matthew's death—with unnerving detail. Stockard Channing delivers an unforgettable, Emmy® Award-winning performance as Matthew's grieving mother, Judy, in a story of a murder that moved a nation to action. Also starring Law & Order's Sam Waterston.

The Matthew Shepard Story

2002

The Love Club Moms: Nila poster
7.0

Since her husband died three years earlier, Nila’s life has been all about her Instagram business and helicopter parenting her daughter Mara. Now a tween aching to break free, Mara creates a dating profile for her mom. Nila is horrified, but the Love Club agree it’s time Nila moved on. In order to make Mara and her Love Club friends happy, Nila agrees to date, but when all her dates bomb, she recruits local coffee shop owner Olly to be in a pretend relationship with her to get everyone off her case. But after discovering it’s a ruse, the Love Club decide to play Nila at her own game and create scenarios where Nila and Olly actually have to spend time as a couple.

The Love Club Moms: Nila

2025

Seance poster
4.2

After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves holding a seance. When the kids summon a demon by mistake, they have to find a way to drive the demon out of their friend before it destroys them all.

Seance

2012

The Christmas Ring poster
6.6

A reporter searches for the love story behind an antique engagement ring. With the help of the ring’s owner’s grandson, they learn the legacy his grandparent’s left behind.

The Christmas Ring

2020

Scentsational Christmas poster
5.4

Ellie decides to go back home for Christmas, and help her dad with the candle-making business. Little does she know, however, that her father has charming, writer Logan staying with him, looking for inspiration for his writings.

Scentsational Christmas

2022

Love on the Danube: Love Song poster
6.4

A daughter traveling with her widowed mother and a son traveling with his widower father meet on a cruise and decide that their musical parents would make the perfect couple try to engineer a romance only to falling in love themselves.

Love on the Danube: Love Song

2024

The Love Club Moms: Harper poster
7.0

A pillar in her community and mother of two, Harper has never failed at anything she has set out to do, so when her husband asks for a separation, it throws off her whole world. When Colin, a divorced dad and community councilor seeking re-election, asks Harper for her help with his community initiatives, the Love Club encourages her to do it. Just when it seems sparks may actually ignite between these two, Colin takes credit for the initiative. Indignant, Harper throws her hat into the election ring and goes head-to-head with Colin. She recruits the Love Club as her campaign team, but although they champion her, they also step in to help Harper and Colin’s love blossom as a team.

The Love Club Moms: Harper

2025

The Love Club Moms: Jo poster
7.7

As an uptight elementary school principal, Jo’s skills are put to the test when a new young student, Simon, continuously lands in her office for detention. When she learns the boy’s father is her old high school flame Ryan, Jo’s world is thrown for a loop, especially since she has been dating Bernie, the school’s French teacher. The Love Club are stunned to learn that their sensible friend impulsively married Ryan at 19 then quickly annulled it. It becomes clear to the Love Club that neither Jo or Ryan have forgotten one another, and their heated volatile relationship only reveals an intense passion that the Love Club are intent on reigniting.

The Love Club Moms: Jo

2025

We R Friends poster
3.0

A group of teenage friends are blamed for the murder of their schoolmate and run away from home to avoid answering to the authorities. Having faith in his students, the troubled gang's school principal proves to be a good Samaritan who sets out to locate the teenagers and find out what really happened.

We R Friends

2006

Tiny House of Terror poster
5.2

After the tragic disappearance and presumed death of her tech mogul husband, Samantha Hastings decides to escape from her fancy hi-tech house in Silicon Valley and move to a rustic and cozy tiny house, completely isolated from the prying eyes of the public. As she begins to adapt to her new lifestyle, Samantha's serenity is interrupted when she can't shake the feeling that she is being watched... exactly what her husband felt before his disappearance. Strange and unexplained terrors begin to happen in the tiny house until eventually Samantha's sanctuary becomes her prison with no way out.

Tiny House of Terror

2017

The Love Club Moms: Tory poster
6.5

A publishing powerhouse, Tory adopts a baby girl after failing to find a man who fills the void of not having the father she needed. Even a list of qualifying traits doesn’t help, so she gives up on dating, besides, she’s busy being a new mom while trying to prove herself as CEO and land a new hot children’s author. This prompts the Love Club to help Tory hire Finn, a nanny. But when the truth comes out that Finn was never really a nanny, the Love Club has to convince Tory that despite his lack of credentials Finn could be the children’s author and partner she was looking for.

The Love Club Moms: Tory

2025