Julia Rais

Julia Rais
Her Most Gracious Che Puan
Born	Julia binti Abdul Rais (1971-02-19) 19 February 1971 (age 53) Kota Bharu, Kelantan Malaysia
Spouse	Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah ​ ​ (m. 1991)​
Issue	Tengku Puteri Raja Tengku Puteri Iman Afzan Tengku Puteri Raja Tengku Puteri Ilisha Ameera Tengku Puteri Raja Tengku Puteri Ilyana
Names Che Puan Julia binti Abdul Rais
House	Bendahara (by marriage)
Father	Abdul Rais Yeop
Religion	Sunni Islam
Occupation	Actress, model

Royal family of Pahang
Al-Sultan Abdullah, the Sultan of Pahang Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah, the Tengku Ampuan of Pahang Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah, the Tengku Mahkota (Crown Prince) of Pahang Tengku Muhammad Iskandar Ri'ayatuddin Shah, the Tengku Arif Bendahara Tengku Amir Nasser Ibrahim Shah, the Tengku Panglima Raja Puteri Suraiya Afzan, the Che Puan Panglima Tengku Adam Ibrahim Shah Tengku Sulaiman Abdullah Shah Tengku Nuh Mohamed Shah Tengku Ahmad Ismail Mu'adzam Shah, the Tengku Panglima Perang Tengku Puteri Afzan Aminah Hafidzatullah, the Tengku Puteri Raja Tengku Puteri Jihan Azizah 'Athiyatullah, the Tengku Puteri Raja Che Puan Julia binti Abdul Rais, the second wife of the Sultan Tengku Puteri Iman Afzan, the Tengku Puteri Raja Tengku Abu Bakar Ahmad Tengku Zayn Edin Shah Tengku Aleya Norlini Tengku Puteri Ilisha Ameera, the Tengku Puteri Raja Tengku Puteri Ilyana, the Tengku Puteri Raja Che Puan Besar Kalsom, the Che Puan Besar and stepmother of the Sultan Tengku Abdul Rahman, the Tengku Muda Che Puan Julita Aishah binti Abdul Latiff, the Che Puan Muda Tengku Ameera Asya Tengku Eddie Akasya Tengku Ahmad Firhan Shah Tengku Armaan Alam Shah Tengku Fahad Mua'adzam Shah, the Tengku Arif Temenggong Tengku Meriam, the Tengku Puteri Seri Lela Wangsa Mohamad Toufic Ozeir Tengku Nurul Kamalia Dato' Ahmad Najmi Puteri Nadra Raniya Puteri Shakira Nurjenna Tengku Madina Kamalia Muhammad Fadhil Tengku Aidy Ahmad Shah Mai Nurliyana Meyor Hamdan Tengku Abdullah Amir Ahmad Shah Puteri Noor Afzan Tengku Muhaini, the Tengku Puteri Seri Teja Puteri Fara Natalia Ahmad Nazri Sophia Nina Imran Naeem Ayoub Ameer Puteri Imee Suhaila Puteri Munawwarah Syammiyah Tun Putera Matin Ahmad Shah Aida Rahimova Tun Putera Muhammad Abu Bakar Tun Putera Abdul Mubin Shah Saskia Natra Schwarz Tengku Aishah Marcella, the Tengku Puteri Seri Kemala Tunku Syazwan Kaiyisah Wan Putera Shahril Tun Putera Shakeel Abdullah Shah Tun Putera Khyrie Ahmad Shah Tun Putera Ahmad Aizuddin Shah Puteri Afzan Shakira Nabila Khairul Fahmy Khaira Alayna Sofia Khadijah Aishah Tengku Nong Fatimah, the Tengku Puteri Lela Manja Puteri Suraiya Afzan, the Che Puan Panglima Tengku Amir Nasser Ibrahim Shah, Tengku Panglima Raja Tengku Adam Ibrahim Shah Tengku Sulaiman Abdullah Shah Tengku Nuh Mohamed Shah Tun Putera Yasir Ahmad Shah Diyana Hazmi Isa Gabriel Shah Inara Alia Afzan Tun Putera Iskandar Alam Shah Tengku Shahariah, the Tengku Puteri Seri Bongsu The Hon. Dato’ Baharim Puteri Amida Afsha Afzan Wan Putera Shahjuan Puteri Ameera Azwa Asyarah
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Che Puan Julia Abdul Rais, (born 19 February 1971) is a Malaysian former model and actress. She is a member of the Bendahara dynasty as the second wife of Abdullah of Pahang, the 6th modern Sultan of Pahang and 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

Julia had a successful, but short, career in Malaysia as a film actress in the early 1990s and was known for her European features. She played the title character in the 1990 films Isabella and Mira Edora and in the 1992 film Nadia. Julia also had roles in the films Hati Bukan Kristal, Driving School, and Suci Dalam Debu. She received two awards and a nomination for Best Actress at the 9th Malaysian Film Festival in 1991. She ended her acting career shortly after marrying into the Pahang royal family.

Early life and family

Julia was born in Kota Bharu, Kelantan on 19 February 1971. She is of Malay and British ancestry. She is the daughter of Abdul Rais Yeop, a Malaysian businessman and former board member of Sri Jaya Vehicles, from his second marriage to a British wife. She grew up in Damansara Jaya with her late father and late stepmother, Zaedah-tul Laily @ Lily Ibrahim. She has a sister, the late Zalina, and two stepsiblings, Mohd Rafiza and Fazlyn. She is also a cousin of the politician Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz and a step-cousin of award-winning actress Juliana Ibrahim.

Career

Julia began acting and modelling in the late 1980s in television commercials for Procter & Gamble and Rejoice Shampoo. Her first film was the 1990 romance film Isabella, where she played the title character. From 1990 to 1992 she appeared in several films as a supporting character. She played Nina, a journalist, in the film Hati Bukan Kristal and was the lead role in the comedy Driving School. She also had lead roles in the films Mira Edora, Nadia, and Suci Dalam Debu.

At the Malaysian Film Festival in 1991, Julia won the Bintang Harapan Award and the Best Film Award for Hati Bukan Kristal and was nominated for Best Actress for Mira Edora.

She ended her career in the entertainment industry shortly after marrying into the Pahang royal family.

Marriage and issue

In 1991 she married Al-Sultan Abdullah, who was then the heir-apparent to the Sultanate of Pahang, as his second wife.^[1][2] Her husband's first wife is Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah.^[1] They had a private ceremony at Fraser's Hill.^[1]

Upon her marriage she was bestowed the honorific prefix of Che Puan (equivalent to the English "Lady") as a Sultan's consort that was non-royal blood.^[3] She is styled as Yang Amat Berbahagia (Her Most Gracious).

Her husband succeeded his father as the sixth Sultan of modern Pahang on 15 January 2019. He was the sixteenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia) from 31 January 2019 until 30 January 2024.^[4][5]

She and the sultan have three daughters together:

• Her Highness Tengku Puteri Raja Tengku Puteri Iman Afzan^[6][7] (born on 11 November 1992); married His Highness Tengku Abu Bakar Ahmad bin Almarhum Tengku Arif Bendahara Tengku Abdullah
  • His Highness Tengku Zayn Edin Shah (born on 23 July 2019)
  • Her Highness Tengku Aleya Norlini (born on 2 February 2022)
• Her Highness Tengku Puteri Raja Tengku Puteri Ilisha Ameera (born on 1 October 1993)
• Her Highness Tengku Puteri Raja Tengku Puteri Ilyana (born on 20 April 1997)

Personal life

Julia is a practitioner of Sunni Islam and a spiritual follower of Yasmin Mogahed.^[8]

She lives in Great Britain with her mother, who is British.^[1] She did not attend the wedding of her eldest daughter in 2018.^[9]

Filmography

Film

Television film

Television

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Videography

References

External links

• Julia Rais at IMDb

This page was last edited on 17 March 2024, at 15:59