Anushka Sharma (Actress)

About Anushka Sharma:

Location	Banglore, India
Affiliation	Actress
Birthday	May 1, 1988

Awards	*Filmfare Awards Nominated 2009: Filmfare Best Actress Award; Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi 2009: Filmfare Best Female Debut Award; Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi 2011: Filmfare Best Actress Award; Band Baaja Baaraat Star Screen Awards Nominated 2008: Star Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Female ; Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi *2011: Star Screen Award for Best Actress; Band Baaja Baaraat *Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards Winner 2009: Best Debut (Female); Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi 2011: Best Actress in a Leading Role; Band Baaja Baaraat *Zee Cine Awards Nominated 2011: Zee Cine Award for Best Actor – Female; Band Baaja Baaraat
Gender	Female
Personal Information	Anushka Sharma (Hindi: अनुष्का शर्मा pronounced [ə ˈnʊʂkaː ˈʃərmaː]; born 1 May 1988) is an Indian actress and former model who appears in ...Bollywood films. In 2008, she made her screen debut in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, directed by Aditya Chopra. Background Sharma was born in Bangalore, but her parents are from Garhwal, 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 studied in Army School and graduated with specialization in arts from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. She then 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. Her first acting role was in Aditya Chopra's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) opposite Shah Rukh 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." Her second film, Badmaash Company, also under Yash Raj Films, was released on May 7, 2010. Harshita Kohli of StarBoxOffice.com said, "Anushka Sharma goes from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi housewife to super hot chic in Badmaash Company."