Nina Manuel

Nina Manuel Biography

Nina Manuel is an Indian super model and video jockey. She is also a television host. She has appeared as cover girl in many prestigious fashion magazines including 2001 February and 2002 April editions of Elle Magazine. As a VJ, she has been associated with Channel V. Nina at 9, Midnite Manuel, Late Night V and After Hours are the shows hosted by her. She is a Malayali-Goan girl born in Mumbai. Her name has been listed among the 100 sexiest women in the world by both Maxim and FHM magazines.

Her father is a Keralite while her mother belongs to Goa. She was born in Mumbai and her childhood was spent at Arabian countries - Kuwait, Bahrain and Dubai. Later she returned to Mumbai and completed graduation from Mithibai College. Her dream was to become a lawyer and enrolled at a law college. After two years she participated in Femina Look of the Year contest in 1995, getting full support from her mother. Though she was not able to win the contest it was the stepping stone to her modelling career. She was spotted by Mehr Jessia, one of the Indian supermodels who inspired her to take modelling career. Thus she started her professional modelling career and dropped her college studies due to busy schedule and assignments.

She started her modeling career with a show for Ensemble, an haute couture store. Very soon she was picked up by many leading fashion designers of the country and worked with Suneet Varma, JJ Valaya, Raghvendra Rathod and Ravi Bajaj. Apart from being a ramp model she has also done photo shoots for many leading brands. She also appeared in many popular music videos of Baba Sehgal, Remo, Anaida etc.

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Updated: May 12, 2014