Priyanka Chopra wallpapers & Biography
Priyanka Chopra born 18 July 1982 is an Indian actress, model, film producer and singer. The winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant, Chopra is one of India's highest-paid and most popular entertainers. She has received numerous awards, including two National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards. In 2016, the Government of India awarded her the Padma Shri, and Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world and the following two years, Forbes listed her among the 100 most powerful women in the world.
Biography
Priyanka was born in Jamshedpur. But she considers Bareilly her real home. Her parents were doctors in the Indian Army. As a teenager in 2000 she lived for a few years with her aunt in the United States. In the US she was the second runner-up of the Femina Miss India contest and entered the Miss India World pageant where she was crowned Miss World, the fifth Indian to receive this honour.
Chopra at one time aspired to study engineering or psychiatry, she accepted offers to join the Indian film industry which came as a result of her Tamasha win, making her acting debut in the Tamil film Thamizhan in 2002. The following year, she starred in Andaaz, her first Hindi film release and followed with the box office hit Hero, which won her the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award and a nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress Award. She subsequently earned wide critical recognition for her role of a seductress in the 2004 thriller Aitraaz, winning her Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role. By 2006, Chopra had established herself as a leading actress of Hindi cinema with starring roles in the highly successful films Krrish and Don. After receiving mixed reviews for a series of unsuccessful films, she received critical acclaim for portraying unconventional characters, including a troubled model in the 2008 drama Fashion, a feisty Marathi woman in the 2009 thriller Kaminey, a serial killer in the 2011 thriller 7 Khoon Maaf and an autistic woman in the 2012 romantic comedy Barfi! She achieved further commercial success by starring in films such as the action thriller Don 2 (2011), the revenge drama Agneepath (2012), Barfi! and the superhero science fiction film Krrish 3 (2013), which ranks among the highest-grossing Indian films of all time.
In addition to acting in films, she participates in stage shows, has hosted a reality show on television and has written columns for national newspapers in India. Chopra is engaged in philanthropic activities and was appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights on 10 August 2010. In 2012, she released her first single "In Your City". Her second single "Foreign" debuted in 2013 and charted in countries such as the United States and Canada.
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