Name: Anushka SharmaNick Name: Anu, Nushie
DOB: 01 May 1988
Father: Ajay Kumar Sharma
Mother: Ashima Sharma
Siblings: Elder brother-Karnesh
Birth Place: Bangalore
Profession: Actress, model
Zodiac: Taurus
Height: 5′ 9″
Anushka was born on 01 May 19 at Bangalore, Karnataka. Her father Col. Ajay Kumar Sharma is an army officer and her mother Ashima Sharma is a housewife. She has an elder brother Karnesh, who was a state-level cricketer. At present he is in the Merchant Navy. Anushka has done her schooling in Army School and graduated with specialization in arts from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. Then, later moved to Mumbai to pursue her modeling career.
Anushka was much interested in the modeling world and has no strong aspirations for films. She began her modeling career with 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, she has done add campaigns for Silk & Shine, Whisper, Nathella Jewelry and Fiat Palio.
Anushka’s first debut film was Aditya Chopra’s “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi” along with Shahrukh Khan. Her performance was appreciated with film critic Taran Adarsh stating that “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 managed it very well from starting to end”. The film received positive reviews and been concluded as the second-highest grossing film of all-time by the end of that year. Her next assignment is “Badmaash Company”.Film critic Taran Adarsh added, “Anushka is a revelation. She looks stunning, her performance is livewire and the chemistry with Shahid was Terrific.”Anushka says “I was very young when I was in RNBDJ, that journey had enabled me as an actor. I am not very confident of my growth as an actor but I am very confident of my growth as a person.”
Anushka made another film with Yash Raj Films, starring in “Band Baaja Baaraat”, a romantic comedy directed by Maneesh Sharma and co-starring debut Actor Ranveer Singh. Band Baaja Baaraat has received good response and is a moderate box office success. Anushka’s performance was praised by critics, many of whom called it her best work up to that point. Taran Adarsh described her as “truly wonderful,” noting that it is “the first time in her 3-film career, a film rests mainly on Anushka’s shoulders, and she handles the responsibility so well”. For her performance in the film, Anushka received her second nomination for the Filmfare Award as a Best Actress and earned several awards and nominations at different award ceremonies.
Her next venture is “Patiala House” with Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar. Despite the film’s played moderate at box office, AnushkaSharma received positive reviews. Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India wrote, “Anushka Sharma’s vivacity may have an after taste of her bubbling Band Baaja Baraat act but her passage from Janakpuri’s dhinchak girl to Southall’s siren is sweet and smooth. Watch out for the girl; she’s truly on a roll.” she re-united with her Band Baaja Baarat team of Ranveer Singh and Maneesh Sharma for Yashraj Films’s “Ladies vs Ricky Bahl”. Her upcoming films are “Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola “and Yash Raj untitled film, “Bombay Velvet” .
Silk & Shine, Whisper, Nathella Jewelry and Fiat Palio, Canon, Gitanjali Jewellery ,Reliance Communications, Tvs Scooty, Nivea
Color: Black
Food: Butter chicken & sea foods
Hobbies: Dancing, Music and reading books
Movie Year Role Awards
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi 2008 Tani Sahni Best Debut (Female)
Badmaash Company 2010 Bulbul Singh
Band Baaja Baaraat 2011 Shruti Kakkar IIFA Award for Best Actress
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Patiala House 2011 Simran
Ladies VS Ricky Bahl 2011 Ishika Desai
Yash Chopra’s
Untitled Project 2012
Matru Ki Bijlee
Ka Mandola 2013 Bijlee
Bombay Velvet 2013
