Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi

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Padma Lakshmi Profile

  • Name:
  • Padma Lakshmi
  • Born:
  • September 1, 1970

Padma Lakshmi Biography

Padma Lakshmi is an Indian American author, actress and model. She has hosted the US reality television show Top Chef since 2006. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program. In the year 2010, the program won the award.

 

She was born on 1st September 1970 in Chennai. Her father is a Pfizer executive and her mother Vijaya is a nurse. Her mother tongue is Tamil. She is the only daughter of her parents and both of them got divorced after one year of their marriage. She grew up in her grandparents’ house in Chennai and with her mother in New York.

 

She met with a car accident when she was 14 and underwent surgery in her right arm. She studied at Workman High School in the City of Industry at California. She got her graduation in the year 1992 from Clark University in Worcester in Masschusetts in USA. She got her B.A. with honors in Theatre Arts. She could speak many languages, Tamil, Hindi, English, Italian and Spanish.

 

She started her modeling career at her age of 16 and has worked with top designers such as Emanuel Ungaro, Raplh Lauren, Roberto Cavalli, and Alberta Ferretti. She also appeared in the covers of the Redbook, Vogue India, Cosmopolitan, Avenue, Asian Woman, Industry Magazine, Newsweek, etc. She posed nude of the Allure magazine in May 2009.

 

She got Best Firm Book at the 1999 World Cook Awards for her cookbook Easy Exotic. Her second cookbook Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet was released on 2nd October 2007. She acted with Amitabh Bachchan Jackie Shroff in the Hindi action film Boom in 2003. She acted in the film The Mistress of Spices in 2005.

 

She married the novelist Salman Rushdie on 17th April 2004 in New York. They filed for divorce on 2nd July 2007. She gave birth to a baby girl Krishna Thea Lakshmi on 20th February 2010 and announced Adam Dell as the baby’s father. 

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Updated: May 29, 2018

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