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| Priyanka
Chopra |
| Priyanka
Chopra, is an Indian actress and Miss World 2000. Today,
she is one of the most powerful actresses in India. |
Biography
Priyanka was born on July 18,
1982 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India to Ashok and Madhu
Chopra nee Akhauri, both doctors.[2] She also has a
brother. She had Breast Cancer when she was young and was
often called Mimi. Priyanka is very attached to her
father. Her father is from Punjab while her mother is from
Bihar in north India. She spent part of her childhood in
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. Her family frequently moved since
her father was in the Army. She studied at La Martiniere
Girls' College in Lucknow, as a young girl and later came
to the United States, where she was a student at Newton
North High School, in Newton, Massachusetts and John F.
Kennedy High School (Cedar Rapids) in Iowa before
returning to India to complete high school at Army Public
School (Bareilly). She began college at Jai Hind College
in Mumbai but left after winning the Miss World pageant.
Beauty
contest winner
Priyanka was crowned Miss India
World and later Miss World in 2000.[3] In the same year,
Lara Dutta and Khadoos Mirza, both from India, won the
Miss Universe and Miss Asia Pacific crowns, in a rare
triple.
When
she won the Miss World crown, she became the fifth Indian
woman to win the title in a span of just seven years.
India's Yukta Mookhey had won the same national and
international titles in the previous year.
Beauty
pageants were banned in her conservative home state of
Uttar Pradesh in the year she won the title.
Acting
career
After winning the Miss World
title, Priyanka became an actress. She first acted in a
Tamil film Thamizhan (2002) and since then has acted in
many Bollywood films including Bluffmaster.She first got
offered to be Umrao in Umrao Jaan. It was either Umrao
Jaan or Bluffmaster. She picked bluffmaster. Her first
Hindi film was the big budget The Hero: Love Story of a
Spy (2003) which was a flop. |
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She
became more known from her next film Andaaz (2003) which
was a hit, for which she won her first Filmfare Award.
Coincidentally, her co-star in that movie was her Miss
India compatriot, Lara Dutta. She then acted in a series
of flops until Mujhse Shaadi Karogi in (2004) which was
her second hit. She followed it up with Aitraaz, a Hindi
remake of the Demi Moore-starrer Disclosure which was yet
another box office success. In the same year, she
participated in a world tour aptly titled
"Temptations 2004" with Bollywood's leading
stars, including Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Saif Ali
Khan, Preity Zinta and Arjun Rampal. In cities that she
did not appear in, either Celina Jaitley replaced her or
it was just the other
In 2005, she had many releases, though most did moderately
at the box office.But her film Bluffmaster which released
late in 2005 was one of the biggest hits of 2005. In 2006,
she worked in two of the most successful films of the year
- Krrish and Don - The Chase Begins Again. She has also
recently been on the hit chatshow Koffee with Karan.
Priyanka
Chopra was voted Sexiest Asian Woman of 2006 in Eastern
Eye, an Asian newspaper published in Britain.
She
was given the nickname Piggy Chops by co-star Abhishek
Bachan while shooting for Bluffmaster. This name was made
public later on when it was mentioned at the end of Taxi
no 9211. |
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