Anushka Sharma (born 1 May 1988 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India) is a model and actress in the Bollywood film industry. In 2008, she played the female lead role in the Bollywood film Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, directed by Aditya Chopra, who earlier directed hits like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) and Mohabbatein (2000).
Background
Anushka Sharma was born to an army based family in Bangalore. Her father, Ajay Kumar Sharma, is a colonel in the Indian Army and her mother Ashima Sharma is a housewife. She has an elder brother named Karnesh who was a state-level cricketer and is now in the Merchant Navy. She studied in Army School and graduated with specialization in arts from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.
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.
Her first acting role was in Aditya Chopra's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. She currently has a contract to do two more movies with Yash Raj Films but is free to do films outside YRF to further her career if she wishes. She is currently filming for another Yash Raj Film titled Right Hand Man with Shahid Kapoor (directed by Parmeet Sethi) and is going to begin shooting for her first venture outside of Yash Raj with Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar in Patiala House, scheduled to start in December 2009.
Filmography
2008 - Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
2010 - Right Hand Man
2010 - Patiala House
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