Priyanka Chopra

Name: Priyanka Chopra
Nickname: Sunshine, Mimi, Yanka & Priyucka Cobra
Date of Birth: 18, July 1982
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Height: 5'9" (1.75m)
Hobbies: Singing & Writing poetry
Debut Film: Thamizhan (Tamil, 2002)
Family: Father Capt. Dr. Ashok Chopra, mother Dr. Madhu Chopra, has a younger brother

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One of the renowned actresses of Indian Hindi Cinema, Priyanka Chopra stepped into Cinema after winning Miss World-2000 title. Indian beauty queens', joining the film industry is a usual act, and Priyanka Chopra too is in the same sequence who started her film career with the debut film in a South Indian Movie (Tamil movie - Tamizhan).

She bagged many awards for her brilliant performance in Hindi Movies: Filmfare Award - Best Debut for the movie Andaaz (2003) Filmfare Award - Best Villain for the movie Aitraaz (2004) Star Screen Award -Best Villain for Aitraaz (2004)

A successful actress of Hindi Cinema, Priyanka Chopra's origin is from Jamshedpur (Bihar) in India. Being the daughter of an Army Officer (Her father is a commissioned officer and surgeon in the Indian army Medical Corps), Priyanka Chopra had the opportunity to travel all over the country and had the exposure of mixing with different cultural Indian society. The actress with her beautiful eyes and fascinating smile has worked for several social welfare programmes too. Intelligent and sexy girl with a handy art to play with the words with command over the language and brilliant performance in recent movies has established her as one of top actresses of Hindi Cinema.

Education
La Martiniere Girls school, Lucknow - Resident student
Maria Goretti College, Bareilly - Student for a short period
Boston, USA - completed 10th grade

She participated in the Femina Miss India contest, when she returned back from Boston and won the title of Femina - Miss India World. She took this fame further more when she won the Miss World - 2000 title. This made her to move on a moved on to films, despite of her ambition to become a software Engineer or a Criminal Psychologist.

Her movies initially got a hold of depraved reviews and still she made it worked at the box-office and she got many offers, especially glamorous roles. Like any other actors / actresses in the film industry, Priyanka Chopra too faced with controversies (about her family) and hence there was a little break in her career. After this break, Priyanka Chopra gave two successful movies such as Sanjay Gupta's "Plan" (2004) and Guddu Dhanoa's "Kismat" (2004) which were box-office hits. After the success of the recent blockbuster Krrish (2006), she has become the most successful box office actress in Bollywood.

Her personal quotes about her movie Krrish….."I fail to understand why people would think I got a raw deal out of Krrish (2006), considering I was present all through the film, from the beginning till the end. And I don't know where people get off really. 'Krrish' has done a business of Rupees 150 crores. It's popular and is almost giving 'Superman' a run for its money, so what more convincing is required to get the point across? I'm very happy with the response I got fro the film. I'm happy with my role. I've learnt that you can't always please everyone in any case. And 'Krissh' is my moment of success; I will not allow anyone to take that away from me." (Stardust magazine, September 2006)

Priyanka Chopra undoubtedly has a number of films in hand at this moment including Farhan Akhtar's 'Don', Farah Khan's 'Happy New Year', Nikhil Advani's 'Salaam E Ishq' and many more.

Filmography
2009: Billu - Special appearance in song You Get Me Rockin & Reeling
2009: Kaminey (Post-production)
2009: What's Your Raashee? (Filming)
2009: Pyaar Impossible (Filming)
2008: My Name is Anthony Gonsalves - Special appearance
2008: Love Story 2050
2008: God Tussi Great Ho
2008: Chamku Shubhi
2008: Drona
2008: Fashion - Winner, Filmfare Best Actress Award
2008: Dostana
2007: Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love
2007: Big Brother
2007: Om Shanti Om - Special appearance in song Deewangi Deewangi
2006: Taxi Number 9211 - Special appearance
2006: 36 China Town - Special appearance
2006: Alag - Special appearance in song Sabse Alag
2006: Krrish
2006: Aap Ki Khatir Anu
2006: Don - The Chase Begins Again
Bluff Master (2005).... Simran "Simmi" Ahuja
Barsaat (2005).... Kajal
Yakeen (2005).... Simar N. Oberoi
Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005).... Pooja 'Mitali'
Karam (2005).... Shalini (John's wife)
Blackmail (2005).... Mrs. Rathod
Aitraaz (2004).... Mrs. Sonia Roy
"Indian Idol" (2004) TV Series.... Guest Judge
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004).... Rani Singh
Asambhav (2004).... Alisha
Kismat (2004).... Sapna Gosai
Plan (2004).... Rani (Mussa's girlfriend)
Miss India: The Mystery (2003)
Andaaz (2003) (as Priyanka Chopra: Miss World 2000).... Jiya E. Singhania
The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003).... Shaheen Zakaria
Thamizhan (2002).... Priya