Priyanka Chopra was born on 18th July, 1982 at Jamshedpur, India, is a leading Bollywood actress. She won the title ‘Miss World’ in the year 2000. Her parents are both physicians with the Indian Army. She has a brother Siddharth, seven years younger to her. She completed her studies at La Martiniere Girls School in Lucknow and then left for US to complete high school at Newton North High School, Newton and later at John F. Kennedy High School, Lowa. She has a cousin sister Parineeti Chopra, who has just entered Bollywood in 2011.
After winning the crown, she started getting offers from the film industry. She initially tried her luck with a Tamil Film in the year 2002, which did not popularize her as a heroine. Her next movie ‘Andaaz’ released in 2003 was a box office hit and she won the Filmfare award for the best debut actress. After that, three films flopped disastrously at the box office namely ‘Plan’, ‘Kismat’, ‘Asambhav’. Then she got an offer to act in ‘Mujhse Shaadi Karogi’ which again brought her to the limelight in 2004. She won the national award for her role in the movie ‘Fashion’ released in 2008.
Till today she has acted in about 40 films. She is also involved with many charity projects and is an active member of NDTV’s Greenathon, a project to help provide electricity to many rural villages across India. She is also the goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. She has won numerous awards within a span of 10 years since she started her acting career in the year 2002. She also won the critics award in the year 2012 for ‘7 Khoon Maaf’. An UK magazine has voted her as ‘Asias Sexiest Women’ in the year 2006.
She was rumored to be romantically linked with a budding Bollywood actor Harman Baweja, but they broke up and now she is seen to be in a relationship with Shahid Kapoor, the current heartthrob of many females and a leading Bollywood actor. Apart from acting, Priyanka Chopra is also a trained classical singer. Her first single album is scheduled to be released in September, 2012.
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