Anushka Sharma

Anushka Sharma

She was born 1 May 1988) is an Indian film actress, producer and former model. In 2008, she was signed by Aditya Chopra for a three-film contract with Yash Raj Films and consequently made her acting debut in Chopra's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. She later received critical acclaim for her role as an ambitious wedding planner in the 2010 romantic comedy Band Baaja Baaraat. Both films earned her Best Actress nominations at the Filmfare Awards.Sharma later gathered critical appreciation for her performance in the 2012 romantic drama Jab Tak Hai Jaan, which earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. Due to these prime achievements, Sharma has been noted as one of the most promising new actresses of Hindi cinema.

Anushka Sharma

Background

Anushka Sharma was born on 1 May 1988 in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India to Colonel Ajay Kumar Sharma, an army officer, and Ashima Sharma, a housewife.Her father is from Uttar Pradesh, while her mother is a Garhwali.Sharma grew up in Bangalore.She has an elder brother named Karnesh,who is in the Merchant Navy. She studied in Army School and graduated with specialization in arts from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.She later moved to Mumbai to further pursue her modelling career, where she currently resides.



Career


Sharma says she originally wished to make it big in the modeling world but had no strong aspirations for films. She began her modeling career at the Lakme Fashion Week as a model for Wendell Rodricks's Les Vamps Show and was picked to be Rodricks's finale model at the Spring Summer '07 Collection. Since then she has done campaigns for Silk & Shine, Whisper, Nathella Jewelry and Fiat Palio.

Anushka Sharma

Her first acting role was in Aditya Chopra's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) opposite Shahrukh Khan. Her performance was appreciated with film critic Taran Adarsh stating, "Anushka looks the character and surprises you with a confident performance. It's no small achievement to share screen space with an actor of the caliber of SRK and Anushka manages it very well from start to end." Sonia Chopra of Sify, also gave Sharma a favourable review, calling her "definite star material", and praised her dialogue delivery and range as an actor. The film received positive reviews and was declared a blockbuster, and had been concluded as the second-highest grossing film of all-time to that point by the end of the year.

As of August, 2014, Sharma has completed work on Rajkumar Hirani's political satire P.K. alongside Aamir Khan which releases on December 19, 2014.She has also co-produced Navdeep Singh's action thriller NH10 along with Phantom Films, in which she plays the lead role opposite Neil Bhoopalam. She also features in Anurag Kashyap's period romance Bombay Velvet, opposite Ranbir Kapoor, which is scheduled for release in May, 2015. Sharma is currently shooting for Zoya Akhtar's Dil Dhadakne Do, a drama about a dysfunctional Punjabi family co-starring Farhan Akhtar, Ranveer Singh and Priyanka Chopra, in which Sharma will play Singh's love interest.