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 1st 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 10th 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 11th 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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Filmography:
Year | Film | Cast | Role | Notes |
2008 |
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi |
Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Vinay Pathak, Manmeet Singh, M.K. Raina | Tani Sahni | Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards for Best Female Debut |
2010 | Badmaash Company | Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Meiyang Chаng, Vir Das, Anupam Kher, Pavan Malhotra, Kiran Juneja, Shalini Chandran, Jameel Khan | Bulbul Singh | |
Band Baaja Baaraat |
Anushka Sharma, Ranveer Singh, Manu Rishi, Puru Chibber, Revant Shergill, Manmeet Singh, Neeraj Sood, Vinod Verma, Nirupama Chopra, Pushvinder Rathore, Govind Pandey | Shruti Kakkar |
IIFA Awards for Best Actress, Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role |
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2011 | Patiala House | Rishi Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma, Dimple Kapadia, Armaan Kirmani, Hard Kaur | Simran | |
Ladies vs Ricky Bahl | Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Parineeti Chopra, Dipannita Sharma, Aditi Sharma | Ishika Desai | ||
2012 |
Jab Tak Hai Jaan |
Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, Anupam Kher, Neetu Singh, Rishi Kapoor, Sarika Thakur, Andrew Bicknell | Akira Rai |
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress, IIFA Awards for Best Supporting Actress |
2013 |
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola |
Pankaj Kapur, Imran Khan, Anushka Sharma, Arya Babbar, Shabana Azmi, Navneet Nishan | Bijlee Mandola | |
2014 | P.K. | Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Ram Sethi, Boman Irani | Filming | |
Bombay Velvet | Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Raveena Tandon, Karan Johar, Kay Kay Menon, Siddhartha Basu, Naseeruddin Shah | Filming |
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Updated: September 14, 2017