Priyanka Chopra Biography

Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka Chopra at Recent Filmfare Launch
Born	July 18, 1982 (1982-07-18) (age 26) Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2001 – present
Awards won Filmfare Awards Best Female Debut, Andaaz (2004) Best Villain, Aitraaz (2005)

Priyanka Chopra (Hindi: पà¥�रियंका चोपड़ा; born July 18, 1982)¹ is an Indian film actress and former Miss World who works in Bollywood films.

Former Miss India World and later becoming Miss World 2000, Chopra made her acting debut with the Tamil film Thamizhan (2001). Two years later, she made her Bollywood debut with Anil Sharma's The Hero: Love Story of a Spy and had her first commercial success with her second release, Andaaz from the same year, for which she won a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award. Becoming the second woman to win the Filmfare Best Villain Award for her critically acclaimed performance in Abbas-Mustan's Aitraaz (2004), Chopra later went on to deliver commercial success with films like Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004), Krrish (2006), her biggest commercial success so far, and Don - The Chase Begins Again (2006), establishing herself as a popular actress.²

Early life

Born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand to Dr.Ashok Chopra and Dr.Madhu Akhauri, both doctors,³ Chopra spent her childhood in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, Newton, Massachusetts and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.⁴ Her mother comes from a Bihari Kayastha family settled in Jamshedpur, while her father comes from a family of Punjabi origin, settled in Bareilly. She also has a brother, Siddharth, who is eight years younger than her.⁵ Since her father was in the Army, her family frequently moved.

Chopra studied at St. Maria Goretti in Bareilly, as a young girl and later went to the United States, where she was a student at Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts and North Surrey Secondary School in Surrey, BC before returning to India to complete high school at Army School (Bareilly). She began college at Jai Hind College in Mumbai but left after winning the Miss World pageant.

Beauty contest winner

Chopra was crowned Miss India World and later Miss World in 2000.⁶ In the same year, Lara Dutta and Dia Mirza, both from India, won the Miss Universe and Miss Asia Pacific crowns, in a rare triple.

When she won the Miss World crown, she became the fifth Indian woman to win the title, and the fourth Indian woman to win in a span of seven years.

Acting career

After winning the Miss World title, Chopra became an actress. She made her debut in the 2002 Tamil film Thamizhan alongside Vijay, in which she also sung playback, before moving on to Bollywood. In 2003, her first Bollywood film, The Hero: Love Story of a Spy released and won her good reviews.⁷ Despite being given a below average status, the film went on to become one of the highest grossing films of that year.⁸ Her next film, Andaaz opposite Akshay Kumar was a success,⁹ earning her a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award and a nomination for Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.

Her next few films failed to do well at the box office.¹⁰ In 2004, her film, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi released and became the third highest grossing film of that year.¹¹ Her first negative role in her next release, Aitraaz, a Hindi remake of the Demi Moore-starrer Disclosure won her critical acclaim¹² and earned a Filmfare Best Villain Award. Her role also got her a second nomination for Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. In the same year, she participated in a world tour aptly titled Temptations 2004 with Bollywood's leading stars, Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji and Arjun Rampal.

In 2005, she had many releases, though most did not do well at the box office.¹³ In 2006, Chopra starred in two of the most successful films of the year - Krrish and Don - The Chase Begins Again.¹⁴

Nikhil Advani's multi-starrer, Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute To Love was her first release in 2007. The movie failed to do well at the box office.¹⁵ Chopra's next release, Big Brother also failed to do well. Her other releases in 2008 included Love Story 2050, God Tussi Great Ho, Chamku and Drona, all of which failed to do well at the box office. Her most recent releases, Fashion and Dostana, however, have succeeded at the box office, and her performance in the former garnered her critical acclaim.

Awards and honors

Main article: List of Priyanka Chopra's awards and nominations

Filmography

See also

• List of Indian movie actresses
• Miss India
• Miss World

References

External links

• Priyanka Chopra at the Internet Movie Database