Anushka Sharma
Date of Birth: 1 May 1988 , Bangalore , Karnataka , India
Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Sharma was born in Bangalore , but her parents
are from Uttarakhand. Her father, Col. Ajay Kumar Sharma, is an army officer
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
calculated in Army School and graduated
with occupation in arts from Mount Carmel College , Bangalore . She then
stimulated to Mumbai to further her modeling career.
Sharma says she at first 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 climax 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 (2008)
opposite Shahrukh Khan. The film was a huge success and her act was valued. Film
critic Taran Adarsh said, "Anushka looks the character and surprises you
with a certain performance. It's no small attainment to go halves screen space
with an actor of the caliber of SRK and Anushka manages it very well from start
to end." Her second film, Badmaash Company, also under Yash Raj Films, was
released on May 7, 2010 . She was praised
for flouting out of the shell of the conservative and homely Taani to play the
feisty and independent Bulbul, and her presentation was highly praised.
She has two other projects on hand. She began bombardment for her
first venture external of Yash Raj with Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar in
Patiala House in December 2009. Patiala House is listed to be released on February 11, 2011 . She has also started filming for
her third Yash Raj Film, Band Baaja Baaraat, aimed at Maneesh Sharma and co-starring
debutant Ranveer Singh.