Shilpa Shetty (Tulu:
ಶಿಲ್ಪಾ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ; born 8 June 1975) is an Indian film actress and model.
Since making her debut in the film Baazigar (1993), she has appeared in
nearly 40 Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, her first leading
role being in the 1994 Aag. Although she has been through years of
decline during her career, Shetty has been willing to reinvent herself
quite often. Her performances in Dhadkan (2000) and Rishtey (2002) were
appreciated, while her portrayal of an AIDS patient in Phir Milenge...
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Ileana D'Cruz
Ileana D'Cruz (born 1 November) is an Indian film actress, who
predominantly appears in Telugu cinema. Starting her career as a model,
she made her feature film debut in Y.V.S. Chowdhary's 2006 Telugu film
Devadasu. She went on to appear in commercially successful ventures
Pokiri (2006), Jalsa (2008) and Kick, establishing herself as one of
Telugu cinema's leading actresses. Ileana was born in Mumbai,
Maharashtra as the second child to her parents Ronaldo and Samira. She
has three siblings – older sister Fa... [ Read More at Wikipedia ]
Deepika Padukone
Deepika Padukone (Hindi: दीपिका पडुकोण - [diːpɪkaː ˈpəɖʊkoːɳ]; born 5
January 1986) is an Indian actress and a former model. She appears
mostly in Hindi as well as Tamil and Kannada language films. Born to
Badminton player Prakash Padukone, she chose to become an actress and
not pursue a career in sports. Padukone made her acting debut in the
2006 Kannada film Aishwarya. The following year, she made her Hindi film
debut in the blockbuster Om Shanti Om opposite Shah Rukh Khan, which
earned her the Filmfare B... [ Read More at Wikipedia ]
Amrita Rao (Konkani: अमृता
राव, Hindi pronunciation: [əmrɪt̪aː ˈraːu]; born 17 June 1981) is an
Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. Beginning her career as a
model, Rao made her acting debut with Ab Ke Baras (2002). She then
starred in Ken Ghosh's love-story Ishq Vishk (2003) and earned a
Filmfare nomination in the "Best Female Debut" category. Amrita was born
in Mumbai to a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin family. She speaks Marathi,
Hindi, English and her mother tongue, Konkani. She at...
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Shruti Seth (born 18
December 1977) is an Indian television, VJ and film actress. Shruti Seth
was born on 18 December 1977 in Gujarat, India. She did her schooling
from Ashok Academy and graduated from St. Xavier's College Ahmedabad
with a degree in Economics and Commerce. She is married to film director
Danish Aslam. Seth started her career as a model. According to her, her
entry into the world of glamour happened by chance. A couple of people
had asked her if she’d like to model and at that time, it just ...
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
(née Aishwarya Rai, Tulu: ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯಾ ರೈ, Aiśvaryā Rai , pronounced
[əjɕʋərjaː rəj]; born 1 November 1973) is an Indian film actress. She
worked as a model before starting her acting career, and ultimately won
the Miss World pageant in 1994. Rai has acted in over 40 films in Hindi,
English, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali. Often cited by the media as the
"most beautiful woman in the world", Rai made her acting debut in Mani
Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar (1997), and had...
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Bipasha Basu (Hindi: बिपाशा
बसु , Bengali: বিপাশা বসু; born 7 January 1979) is an Indian actress
who mainly appears in Bollywood films. A former model, she was the
winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest in 1996. Basu was
born on 7 January 1979 in New Delhi to a Bengali Hindu family. She is
the middle child of three daughters: she has an elder sister named
Bidisha and a younger named Vijayeta. Basu's family later moved to
Kolkata shortly before she entered middle school. In an interview, she
...
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Genelia D'Souza (born 5
August 1987) is an Indian actress, model, and host. She has appeared in
Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam language films. After
gaining wide attention in a Parker Pen commercial with Amitabh Bachchan,
D'Souza began her acting career with Tujhe Meri Kasam in 2003. She was
recognized for her role in Boys the same year, and later established
herself in Telugu cinema by acting in several Telugu films during
2003–2005. D'Souza received her first Filmfare Award in 2006 for her
p...
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Ayesha Takia Azmi (Hindi:
आयेशा टाकिया आजमी; born Ayesha Takia on 10 April 1986) is an Indian
actress who mainly appears in Bollywood films. Ayesha was born in
Chembur Mumbai, Maharashtra to a Gujarati father, Nishit and a mother of
mixed British-Maharashtrian descent, Faridah. She attended St.
Anthony's High School in Chembur. She has a younger sister named
Natasha. Ayesha started her career with the "I am a Complan Girl!"
advertising campaign and she also appeared in a music video, Falguni
Patha...
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Lara Dutta Bhupathi (Hindi:
लारा दत्ता भूपति; born 16 April 1978) is an Indian actress, UNFPA
Goodwill Ambassador, and former Miss Universe. Lara was born in
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh to a Punjabi father and an Anglo-Indian mother.
Her father is Wing Commander L.K. Dutta (retired) and her mother is
Jennifer Dutta. She also has two elder sisters, one of whom serves in
the Indian Air Force and a well known younger sister. Famed composer and
DJ Nitin Sawhney is Lara's cousin. The Dutta family moved to
Bangalore...
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Riya Sen (Bengali: রিয়া সেন
[ˈrija ˈʃen]; born Riya Dev Varma on 24 January 1981) is an Indian film
actress and model. Riya, who hails from a family of actors including her
grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen,
began her acting career in 1991 as a child artiste in the film
Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was with
Style, a 2001 Hindi low-budget sex comedy directed by N. Chandra. Some
of her other films include producer Pritish Nandy's musical film, J...
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Amrita Arora (Punjabi:
ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਅਰੋੜਾ, Malayalam: അമൃത അറോറ, Hindi: अमृता अरोड़ा; born 31
January 1981) is a Bollywood actress. Arora was born in Chembur Mumbai
to a Malayali mother, Joyce Polycarp, and a Punjabi father, Anil Arora.
Her sister is Malaika Arora Khan. Arora had a Christian wedding ceremony
with boyfriend, Shakeel Ladak on 4 March 2009 and also had a
traditional Muslim nikaah. Reportedly due to her pregnancy, she was
dropped from UTV's film, Season's Greetings. She gave birth to a baby
boy name...
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Mallika Sherawat
(Hindi: मल्लिका शेरावत, born Reema Lamba) is a former Indian model, now
working as an actress in mainly Bollywood films. Known for her bold
onscreen attitude, Sherawat has been frequently featured in the media as
a sex symbol. She is one of the few Bollywood stars trying to crossover
to Hollywood, with films like Hisss and Politics of Love. Sherawat was
born Reema Lamba in Rohtak, Haryana to a Jat family. Mallika was born in
the family of Seth Chhaju Ram, a leading Jat philanthropist. She w...
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Katrina Kaif (born 16 July
1984) is a British Indian actress and former model who appears in Indian
films, mainly in the Hindi-language film industry. She has also
appeared in Telugu and Malayalam films. She was voted the sexiest Asian
woman in the world by Eastern Eye in the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and
2011. Being a British citizen, she works in India on an employment visa.
Kaif made her acting debut with Kaizad Gustad's box office bomb Boom.
She tasted success in 2007 with Vipul Shah's Namastey London and ...
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Preity Zinta (Hindi: प्रीति
ज़िंटा, pronounced [ˈpriːt̪i ˈzɪɳʈaː]; born 31 January 1975) is an
Indian film actress. She has appeared in Hindi films of Bollywood, as
well as Telugu, Punjabi and English language films. After graduating
with a degree in criminal psychology, Zinta made her acting debut in Dil
Se in 1998 followed by a role in Soldier the same year. These
performances earned her a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut, and she
was later recognised for her role as a teenage single mother in Kya
Keh...
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Kajol Devgn (née Mukherjee)
(Bengali: কাজল দেবগন; born 5 August 1974), better known as Kajol, is an
Indian film actress appearing in Hindi films. She is regarded as one of
India's most successful and talented female actors. Kajol made her
acting debut in the film Bekhudi (1992) and had her first commercial
success with her second film Baazigar (1993) opposite Shahrukh Khan,
with whom she would act in such popular movies as Dilwale Dulhaniya Le
Jayenge (1995), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), and Kabhi Khus...
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Celina Jiya Jaitley
(Hindi: सेलीना जेटली, Punjabi: ਸੇਲੀਨਾ ਜੇਟਲੀ; born 24 November 1981) is
an Indian actress born in Kabul, Afghanistan. She appears in mainly
Bollywood films. As a former beauty queen and model, she was crowned
Femina Miss India Universe in 2001. Celina Jaitley was born in Kabul,
Afghanistan to a Punjabi Hindu Army Colonel V.K. Jaitley and Meeta, an
Afghan Hindu, who was a nurse in the Indian Army. Celina has a brother
who is also in the Indian Army. She wanted to grow up and join the army
...
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Sonam Kapoor (Hindi: सोनम
कपूर; born 9 June 1985) is an Indian film actress who appears in
Bollywood films. Kapoor made her acting debut in the unsuccessful film
Saawariya opposite newcomer Ranbir Kapoor, which earned her a nomination
for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She earned her first
commercial success in I Hate Luv Storys opposite Imran Khan. Other
Bollywood films she has appeared in include Delhi-6, Aisha and the
multistarrer Thank You. Sonam Kapoor was born and raised in Chembur,
Mumbai. She...
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Neha Jhulka is a model and
actress from Mumbai, India. She was selected in Pond's Femina Miss India
2006. She has many ads to her credit: Numis Hair gloss, Airtel, Intel
Pentium Processor, Parker Pen, HDFC, Tata Indicom. She has also appeared
in print advertisements for Reliance Mobile, Nivea Cold Cream, SBI
ADVT, Ponds Prickly Heat Talc, CLUB HP. As of 2009, she played one of
the main characters in Season 2 of television show Dill Mill Gaye being
aired on STAR One.She can also be seen in another television...
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Karisma Kapoor (Hindi:
करिश्मा कपूर, born 25 June 1974), often informally referred to as Lolo,
is an Indian actress who made her debut in 1991, and appears in
Bollywood films. During her career, she has been part of many
commercially and critically successful films, Raja Hindustani being the
most notable of them, as it was her biggest commercial success, and won
Kapoor her first Filmfare Award for Best Actress. She won another
Filmfare Award and a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for
Dil To P...
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Mahima Chaudhary
(Bengali: মহিমা চৌধুরী ;born Ritu Chaudhry on 13 September 1973) is an
Indian actress and a former model who appears in Bollywood films. She
made her acting debut in the 1997 film Pardes for which she won the
Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. Chaudhary was born Ritu Chaudhry
in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Her father is from Kakripur village in
Baghpat, Western Uttar Pradesh. Her mother is a Nepali from Darjeeling.
She attended Darjeeling based famous convent school till class X and
la...
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Raveena Tandon (Hindi:
रवीना टंडन; born 26 October 1974) is a National Film Award winning
Indian actress, producer, and a former model. She has primarily worked
in Bollywood films, though she appeared in a few Tamil, Kannada and
Telugu films as well. Tandon made her acting debut with Patthar Ke Phool
(1991), and won a Filmfare Lux New Face Award for her performance in
the film. During the 90s, she was part of several commercial successes
such as Mohra (1994), Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1996) and Ziddi (1997),
a...
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Dia Mirza Handrich (Hindi:
दिया मिर्ज़ा,Urdu: دیا میرزا) nicknamed Dee and more popularly known as
Dia Mirza, (born on December 9, 1981) is a Indian model and actress who
appears in Bollywood films. She was a second runner up at Femina Miss
India, 2000 and was subsequently sent to Miss Asia Pacific, 2000, where
she won. She completed the hat-trick of India winning international
pageants in the year 2000 (Lara Dutta won the Miss Universe title and
Priyanka Chopra won the Miss World title in the same year) wh...
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Rani Mukerji (Bengali: রাণী
মুখার্জী; born Rani Mukherjee on 21 March 1978) is an Indian film
actress who works in Hindi movies. Making her acting debut with Raja Ki
Aayegi Baraat (1997), Mukerji had her first commercial success with
Karan Johar's romance Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), her biggest commercial
success so far, and won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for her
performance in the film. She later starred in several films, most of
which fared below expectations, but in 2002 she re-invented her ...
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Juhi Chawla (Hindi: जूही
चावला, born 13 November 1967) is an Indian actress, film producer and
television presenter. After being crowned as the winner of the Miss
India beauty contest in 1984, Chawla pursued an acting career. She went
on to become one of the top leading actresses of Bollywood and starred
in films ranging from the romances Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak and Darr to
Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke, which earned her the Filmfare Best Actress Award,
to Yes Boss and Ishq. Chawla has been mostly recognised for her...
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Bhumika Chawla (Hindi:
भूमिका चावला; born Rachna Chawla on 21 August 1978) is an Indian
actress. She made her film debut in the Telugu film Yuvakudu (2000) and
has since then worked in various Indian film industries and appeared in
over thirty films in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi and
Malayalam. She is probably best known for her critically acclaimed
performances in Kushi, Tere Naam, Missamma, Gandhi, My Father and
Sathyabhama. Chawla was born in a Punjabi family in New Delhi, India and
completed...
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Kim Michelle Sharma (born 21
January 1980) is a Bollywood actress and model. Kim was born in
Ahmednagar to an Indian father and a Japanese mother and did her
schooling at St. Joseph's Convent in Panchgani. She then returned to her
hometown and joined a junior college. Of her college days, she said
'Having studied in a boarding school, where most of the girls were from
aboard, living and studying in Ahmednagar came as a culture shock'.
While in her twelfth standard, she decided to quit studies. Her niece
use...
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