Swastika Mukherjee

 

Swastika Mukherjee,(born 13 December 1980 in Kolkata)is a leading Bengali actress at Tollywood. She is daughter of actor Santu Mukherjee.She made her debut in 2003 with the film Hemanter Pakhi directed by Urmi Chakraborty. Her first lead role came with Ravi Kinnagi directed Mastan.

She is also a dancer, having learnt dance from the veteran Tanushree Shankar. She had a brief unsuccessful marriage with singer Pramit Sen, son of late Rabindra Sangeet singer exponent Sagar Sen, in 1998. She has one daughter Anwesha born in 2000. Mukherjee's first stint with acting was the tele-serial Devdasi.

Poonam Pandey

Name:             Poonam Pandey
Place of birth:  Mumbai
Occupation:     Model, Actress
Height:            5 ft 7 inch

Poonam Pandey participated in the fourth season action of adventure reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi on Colors channel. Her name is also nominated for Bigg Boss 5.

Poonam Pandey is known as Kingfisher calendar model. She is much comfortable posing in skimpy bikinis as in single-piece swimsuits. She has shot for a whopping 27 calendars for the year 2011 and also shot for swimwear, fashion, causal, print. She has beaten thousands of contenders from around the world to get into the Kingfisher Calendar Girl Hunt 2011

Tanushree Dutta

  Born     March 19, 1984
  Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
  Occupation     Actress, Model
  Years active     2004–present

Born in Jamshedpur,jharkhand Tanushree comes from a conservative Hindu Bengali family, and had her personality groomed according to strict social norms, resulting in her being shy and very introvert. Her dad's name is Tapan,who was a former employee of the life insurance corporation of India.Her mother is a housewife.

She finished junior school in her hometown and compleeted high school studies in pune.She dropped out of college to pursue a career in modeling which was a long cherished dream. She first started modeling for ramp shows,local ad campaigns,print shoots etc and worked part time as a sales junior executive at an event management company while she built her resume and portfolio as an amateur model and actor.

Her career as an actress started with the films 'Chocolate'and 'Ashique Banaya Apne' in 2005.'Ashique Banaya Apne went on to become a box office success and the music of the film broke all existing records in Indian cinema till date,the film'Chocolate'received a lukewarm response but failed to create an impact at the box office but the double impact of these films proved to be a perfect launch pad for tanushree into Bollywood.she worked in several other feature films after that.romantic,comedy,horror,thriller and action were the different genres that she covered in a short career span of five years from 2005-2010.

Tanushree culminated her career with the film 'Rama the saviour' that released in November 2010 and went on a self imposed sabbatical for two and a half years.During this time she travelled extensively and pursued different and varied personal interests like spirituality,yoga and eastern mysticism as well as adventure sports and rediscovered and reinvented herself through this whole process.She was back in the limelight in the spring of 2013 with stunning appearances at several high profile media and red carpet events.

Kangana Ranaut

 

Born     Kangna Amardeep Ranaut
23 March 1987 
Bhambla, Mandi District, Himachal Pradesh, India
Other names     Kangna Ranaut
Occupation     Actress
Years active     2006 - present

Kangna Ranaut  is an Indian actress who appears mostly in Hindi films. She made her acting debut in 2006 with a leading role in Gangster. She won a Filmfare as well as a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a troubled model in Fashion (2008) and subsequently featured in commercially successful films such as Raaz – The Mystery Continues (2009), Once Upon A Time In Mumbai (2010), Double Dhamaal (2011) and Tanu Weds Manu (2011).

Her first release of 2011 was Tanu Weds Manu opposite R. Madhavan, a romantic comedy that proved to be successful at the box office. Along with Ajay Devgan, Zarine Khan and Arbaaz Khan, Ranaut made a special appearance in Anees Bazmee's highly successful comedy Ready, which starred Salman Khan and Asin Thottumkal in lead roles. She was next seen in the multistarrer Double Dhamaal, the sequel of Dhamaal, which emrged as a moderate success at the box office. Ranaut later appeared in Rascals alongside Ajay Devgn and Sanjay Dutt, which opened to a good response at the box office, however became a commercial and critical failure. She also appeared in Miley Naa Miley Hum which failed to do well at the box office.

In 2012, Ranaut once again appeared alongside Ajay Devgan in Tezz, which was a major failure at the box office. As of May 2012, Ranaut is set to appear in I Love NY opposite Sunny Deol, Shootout At Wadala alongside John Abraham and Anil Kapoor, Krrish 3 with Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra and Vivek Oberoi and Rensil D'Silva's next alongside Emraan Hashmi. In July 2012, the actress made a directorial debut with a short film dealing with a complex subject of human-animal relationship, written in collaboration with an Australian writer and shot in the US.

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Ameesha Patel

Birth Name: Ameesha Patel
Date Of Birth: 9 June 1975
Ameesha made her acting debut in the blockbuster Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000). She won critical praise for her performance in Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001), which became one of the biggest hits in the history of Hindi cinema.
Height: 5' 2½" (1.59 m)
Ameesha is the daughter of Amit Patel and Asha Patel and the granddaughter of the famous lawyer-politician Barrister Rajni Patel who was the Congress Pradesh Committee President of Bombay. She is the sister of actor Ashmit Patel.

She was born in the Breach Candy Hospital in Bombay and is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer since the age of five. She studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay and was head girl for the academic year 1992–1993 before heading overseas to study Economics at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

After returning to India, she joined Satyadev Dubey's theatre group. She did not have any plans of being an actress, but when her father’s friend, film-maker and actor, Rakesh Roshan, met her during a family lunch, he offered her the lead role in 'Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai'. Amisha accepted the offer, the movie went on to become a blockbuster, and made her a star overnight.

Ayesha Takia

Born     Ayesha Takia
10 April 1986 ,Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Other names     Ayesha Takia Azmi
Occupation     Actress, Voice actress, Model, Television presenter
Years active     2004-Present
Spouse(s)     Farhan Azmi (2009-Present)

Takia has appeared in a number of films that did poorly at the box office. However, she has been highly praised for her work in the 2006 Dor, a smaller budget film in which she plays the role of a young widowed Rajasthani woman living in a traditional joint family. She went on to win several awards for her performance in the film Dor, including the Zee Cine Critics Award for Best Actress.

Takia has also appeared in the 2005 Telugu film Super with Tollywood star Akkineni Nagarjuna, for which she was nominated for Filmfare Best Actress Award (Telugu). Her most recent hit was in Prabhu Deva's Wanted (2009 film) co-starring Salman Khan, which emerged as the one of the biggest blockbusters of 2009. The film was third highest grossing movie of the year and her role met with positive reviews.

In 2011, she starred in Mod which met with good response. As on 2012, Ayesha hosted the most awaited musical-reality show called Sur Kshetra.

Amy Adams

Amy Lou Adams(born August 20, 1974) is an American actress and singer. Adams was born to American parents in Vicenza, Italy, and began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters, before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous. After a series of television guest appearances and roles in B movies, she was cast in the role of Brenda Strong in 2002's Catch Me If You Can, but her breakthrough role was in the 2005 independent film Junebug, playing Ashley Johnsten, for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

 Adams starred in Sunshine Cleaning with Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin, and the following year appeared as Amelia Earhart in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. She appeared in Julie & Julia in 2009 portraying writer Julie Powell followed by Leap Year in 2010. Her role as Charlene Fleming in The Fighter earned Adams her third Academy Award nomination, her third Golden Globe Award, second BAFTA Award, and fifth Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. In 2011, Adams appeared in The Muppets alongside Jason Segel. In 2012, Adams portrayed Peggy Dodd in The Master and the daughter of Clint Eastwood's character in the baseball drama Trouble with the Curve. For The Master, Adams was nominated for her fourth Academy Award, her fourth Golden Globe Award, and her third BAFTA Award. She plays Lois Lane in the 2013 Superman movie Man of Steel.

Veena Malik

Veena Malik has claimed to be born on 26 February 1980 in Lahore, Pakistan, to a doctor working at an army medical hospital. The family soon settled in Rawalpindi after the child was born. Her grandmother named her Zahida but the parents insisted on keeping Veena as the girl's first name. Her father's busy schedule led her grandmother to become Veena's guardian from the time she was six years old and nurtured her until her teens when she died.

When she grew up, Veena expressed interest in joining films and her grandmother encouraged her. Her father however pondered over his daughter's fate in an industry that was deemed unsuitable for girls in Pakistan and looked down upon by the mostly conservative middle-class, and he initially resisted his daughter's attempts to pursue a career in entertainment. Veena received continuous support from her grandmother however, whose persuasiveness finally enabled her father to allow her to join film and television. People still, some even close to her, scorned her choice of career.

Veena Malik, born Zahida Malik, is a Pakistani actress, comedian and model.

Sai Tamhankar

Sai Tamhankar (born, 25 June 1986) is an Indian actress. She has acted in the Hindi movie Ghajini. She has acted in Marathi movies such as Raada Rox, Rita and the September 2012 release No Entry Pudhe Dhoka Aahey, she has acted in the Shreyas Talpade home production Sanai Choughade.

When she was in Junior College(sangli), she performed for the first time in a play. Thereafter, she developed interest in acting and started taking part in Inter collegiate competitions. Her play, ‘Aadhe Adhure’ got her the Best Actor award, which encouraged her to take up acting as a career. She enjoyed this field and made up her mind to choose this field as her career. Coming to Mumbai in 2004, Sai tried her hand at a course in hotel management. She also auditioned for an MTV programme. Her first break, however, came for a Marathi serial, which got her more serials. It was during the award ceremony of her play that she was offered a major role in the marathi sitcom 'Ya Gojirvanya Gharat'. Since she has also acted in other Marathi serials like, Agni Shikha, Sathi Re and Kasturi. She has also been a part of Hindi films like Subhash Ghai's Black & White and Ghajini. Sai Tamhankar today is a sought after actor in Marathi film industry. She is called one of the bankable stars in the same. Started her career with doing street plays and inter-college drama competitions in Sangli to working with Aamir Khan in ‘Ghajini’ and Subhash Ghai’s ‘Black and White’, . Apart from Marathi serials, Sai also featured in Balaji’s ‘Kasturi’. While shooting for the Ghai’s ‘Black and White’, she was offered the lead role in ‘Sanai Chowghade’

Emma Watson

NAME: Emma Watson
OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Model
BIRTH DATE: April 15, 1990 (Age: 23)
EDUCATION: Brown University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Paris, France
Full Name: Emma Watson
Originally: Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson

Emma Watson was born on April 15, 1990, in Paris, France, but raised in England. The actress got her breakthrough role as a child in the hugely successful Harry Potter film franchise. Watson grew up on camera as she reprised her role as Harry Potter's best friend and sidekick, Hermoine Granger, throughout the entire course of the film series. After committing to the Harry Potter series for a decade, Watson has transitioned into a popular adult model and actress.

Olivia Munn

Lisa Olivia Munn was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is of Chinese descent on her mother's side (though her mother was raised in Vietnam) and of German and Irish descent on her father's. When Munn was age two, her mother married her second husband, a member of the United States Air Force. Although the family relocated many times, Munn was predominantly raised in Tokyo, Japan,where the military stationed her stepfather.

 During this time, she appeared in a number of local theater productions, and later became a model within the Japanese fashion industry. Her parents divorced and she moved back to Oklahoma, where she attended Putnam City North High School for her junior and senior years and where she was a contemporary of Hinder bassist Mike Rodden, future Oklahoma state senator David Holt and author Aaron Goldfarb. She also attended the University of Oklahoma, majoring in journalism and minoring in Japanese and dramatic arts.

Ashley Greene

Birth Name: Ashley Greene
Born: 02/21/1987
Birth Place: Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Actress Ashley Greene was born on February 21, 1987, in Jacksonville, Florida. She left high school early to pursue an acting career in Hollywood. Shortly after relocating to California, Greene was cast as Alice Cullen in Twilight, the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling novel. Greene has appeared in all five of the franchise films. Off-screen, she has made headlines with her love life, having dated celebrities like Chase Crawford.

Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14, 1988) is an American actress and singer, who is best known for her portrayal of the character Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series. She also earned critical acclaim for her role in the 2009 film Bandslam.

As an actress, Hudgens has appeared in several television programs including Quintuplets, Still Standing, The Brothers García, Drake & Josh, and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. She made her screen debut in the 2003 drama Thirteen as Noel. She got her first starring role in the 2004 science-fiction-adventure Thunderbirds as Tintin.

Hudgens' debut album V was released on September 26, 2006. The album entered the Billboard 200 at number twenty four, and was later certified Gold. Hudgens released her second album, Identified, on July 1, 2008 in the U.S.

Hudgens' fame has also been marked by scandal caused by the release of private, self-taken nude photographs of herself on the Internet without her permission on several occasions. Since a third and anonymous release of these images, the FBI is now investigating these leaked photos in an attempt to find the source in connection with similar investigations regarding such hackings around altogether about 50 Hollywood celebrities.