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Our Celebrity of this Week is a former Miss World and is one of the leading actresses in Bollywood.
She is none other than...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA!
Priyanka Chopra, Miss India, was just 18 when she was crowned Miss World 2000.
Priyanka Chopra; born 18 July 1982, is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 2000.
Priyanka
Ashok Chopra was born on 18 July 1982 in Jamshedpur and is fondly known
as Mimi. Her father is Capt. Dr.Ashok Chopra and her mother is Dr.Madhu
Chopra. She has a younger brother, Siddharth. Her father's origin is a
mix of Punjabi, Bengali, and Marathi while her mother's is a mix of
Tamil, Malayali, and Kannada.
Her family was always on the move
as her father was in the army. Few of her growing up years were spent in
Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. She studied at the La Martiniere Girl's
School in Lucknow before re-locating to the United States of America.
While there, she studied at the Newton North High School in
Massachusetts and later in North Delta Senior Secondary School in North
Delta. On returning back to India, she continued her schooling in the
Army School at Bareilly. She joined the Jai Hind College in Mumbai but
dropped out when she
won the second place in the Miss India beauty pageant. She went on to bring home the Miss World crown in 2000, becoming one of the five Indians to have won that title.
AWARDS & Movies:
Chopra made her acting debut with the 2002 Tamil film Thamizhan.
The
following year, she made her Bollywood film debut with The Hero: Love Story
of a Spy and followed it with the hit Andaaz, for which she won a Filmfare
Best Female Debut Award.
In 2004 she became the second woman to win the Filmfare
Best Villain Award, which she received for her critically acclaimed performance
in Aitraaz.
Chopra would later have commercial success with films like Mujhse
Shaadi Karogi (2004), KrrishDon - The Chase Begins
Again.
(2006) and
Chopra earned a Filmfare Best Actress Award and a National Film Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a model in Fashion (2008) and has thus established herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses in Bollywood.
Random Facts:
Marital Status: Single
Siblings: brother Siddharth
Height: 5'8" (1.73 m)
Weight: 53 Kgs
Languages: hindi, english
Other Facts: Miss World 2000
- While shooting the song "Do Me A Favor, Let's Play Holi" in the movie Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005), she stepped on a live wire and received a shock. She was hospitalized for a day.
- Did her schooling from La Martinire in Lucknow. She completed tenth grade in Boston and wanted to become a software engineer or a criminal psychologist.
- Priyanka has a thing for sweet and sour treats like jeera goli and her career plans never included modelling and that she takes to the pen the way a fish takes to water.
- Priyanka's Mom who should be attributed to her Bollywood career because she sent 'passport sized snaps' of Priyanka wearing a suit as an entry for the Miss India competition, something that was meant to be sent to Australia for a scholarship exam in an engineering college.
- Priyanka Chopra has a very good voice and has also sung as the playback singer in her very first film Thamizhan . But post that, she lent her voice only is small bits for songs from Bluffmaster and Barsaat . Music directors Vishal-Shekhar had once claimed that they would want Priyanka to sing a full number for them.
- Priyanka Chopra is the second female actor to have ever won a Filmfare Award in the Best Villain category. She won the award for her brilliant act in Abbas-Mustan's Aitraaz . The only other actress to win the Best Villain Filmfare Award earlier is Kajol for Gupt .
- Priyanka Chopra was the first actress to be featured in the Indian edition of the popular international magazine Maxim . In 2006, she was listed as "Asia's Sexiest Women" by UK magazine Eastern Eye.
Please post your views about Priyanka Chopra...
What do you like most about her?
Do you like her fashion sense and the way she dresses?
What do you think she needs improvement in?
Remember, no bashing allowed.
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