Born: July 18, 1982, Jamshedpur
Height: 1.69 m
Parents: Madhu Chopra, Ashok Chopra
Siblings: Siddharth Chopra
Priyanka
Chopra ( born 18 July 1982) is an Indian film actress and singer, and
was the winner of the Miss World pageant of 2000. Through her successful
film career, Chopra has become one of Bollywood's highest-paid
actresses and one of the most popular celebrities in India. She has won a
National Film Award for Best Actress and Filmfare Awards in four
categories.
Chopra
was born in Jamshedpur to parents who were both physicians in the
Indian Army, causing the family to move frequently during her childhood,
but she considers Bareilly her real home. As a teenager she lived for
some years with an aunt in the United States. In 2000, her mother
entered her into the Femina Miss India contest, in which she finished
second and took the Miss India World title. She was then entered into
the Miss World pageant, where she was crowned Miss World 2000 and Miss
World Continental Queen of Beauty Asia & Oceania, becoming the fifth
Indian to win the competition.
Although
Chopra at one time aspired to study engineering or psychiatry, she
accepted offers to join the Indian film industry, which came as a result
of her pageant wins, making her acting debut in the Tamil film
Thamizhan in 2002. The following year, she starred in The Hero, her
first Hindi film release, and followed it with the box-office hit
Andaaz, which won her the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award and a
nomination for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. She
subsequently earned wide critical recognition for the role of a
seductress in the 2004 thriller Aitraaz, winning her the Filmfare Award
for Best Performance in a Negative Role. By 2006, Chopra had established
herself as a leading actress of Hindi cinema with starring roles in the
highly successful films Krrish and Don. After receiving mixed reviews
for a series of unsuccessful films, she received critical acclaim for
her portrayal of unconventional characters, including a troubled model
in the 2008 drama Fashion, a feisty Marathi woman in the 2009 caper
thriller Kaminey, a serial killer in the 2011 neo-noir 7 Khoon Maaf, and
an autistic woman in the 2012 romantic comedy Barfi!
In
addition to acting in films, she participates in stage shows, has
hosted a reality show on television, and has written columns for India's
national newspapers. Chopra has engaged in philanthropic activities,
and was appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights on 10
August 2010. In 2012, she released her first single "In My City". Her
second single "Exotic" debuted in 2013, and charted in countries such as
the United States and Canada.
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