Anushka Sharma

Anushka Sharma Biography

Anushka Sharma is an Indian actress appearing in the Hindi films. She started her career as a model. In the year 2008, she signed the contract with Aditya Chopra and made her screen debut in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. She received acclaim for the film Band Baaja Baaraat. She was nominated in the Best Actress category in the Filmfare Awards for these two films.

She was born on 1^st May 1988 in Bangalore in Karnataka. Her parents are Col.Ajay Kumar Sharma and Ashima Sharma. His father is an army officer. She has one elder brother, Karnesh who was the state level cricket player and is at present working in the Merchant Navy. She studied at Army School and got her graduation in arts in Mount Carmel College in Bangalore. She moved to Mumbai to pursue her modeling career.

She truly wanted to establish herself as a model and did not have strong aspirations to become an actress. She started her career at the Lakme Fashion Week as a model for Wendell Rodrick’s Les Vamps Show and was selected to be Rodrick’s finale model at the Spring Summer 2007 Collection. She has done modeling for Silk & Shine, Whisper, Nathella Jewelry and Fiat Palio.

After her first film Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi in 2008 with Shahrukh Khan, she continued her second film Badmaash Company with Yash Raj Films.  Her third film was Band Baaja Baaraat by Maneesh Sharma in which she acted with Ranveer Singh. This was released on 10^th December 2010 and was a sleeper hit.

The shooting of Patiala House began in December 2009 which she did with Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar. This was released on 11^th February 2011. She was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actress and Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for the film Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actress for the film Band Baaja Baaraat.

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Updated: September 14, 2017