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Bollywood actress Priyanka chopra was born on July 18, 1982. The Chopra family consisting of her dad, Dr. Ashok and mom, Dr. Madhu, Priyanka and her younger brother. Her family has nick-named her Mimi.

She was born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, she spent her childhood in Rae Barreilly, and did her schooling in Lucknow, in the La Martiniere Girls' School after which shey re-located to the U.S. where she studied in Newton's Newton North High School and then in Cedar Rapid's John F. Kennedy High School in Massachusetts and Iowa.

In 2000 she returned to India and enrolled in Jai Hind College and Basant Singh Institute of Science in Churchgate, Bombay, but had to leave abruptly as she was crowned Miss India. She was subsequently crowned Miss World in the same year - a year which proved to be a year for Indian Beauty Queens - as Lara Dutta and Dia Mirza were also crowned Miss Universe and Miss Asia Pacific respectively.

Ironically, beauty pageants are banned in India's conservative state, Uttar Pradesh.She made her debut in Bollywood with 'The Hero' in 2002, and then went on to act in over 28 movies, as well as lent her voice as a playback singer in 'Barsaat (2005)'. She has won 11 awards to date for her performance in 'Andaaz', 'Aitraaz', 'The Hero', 'Mujhse Shaadi Karogi', & 'Krrish'.

Vidya Balan is a Tamilian from Kerala. She is from the Iyer community. She comes from a middleclass family from Palghat, on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. She did her schooling from St Antony's School and later on joined St Xavier's College from where she graduated in sociology.

When she was doing her MA from Mumbai University, she was offered a role in a Malayalam film titled Chakram with Mohanlal, one of Vidya’s favorite actors. However, the project was shelved mid-way and Vidya had to wait for few more years to make her movie debut.

She made her debut as a model in a Surf Excel advertisement in 1998. She has acted in scores of ad films, most of which were directed by Pradeep Sarkar.A couple of months later, she featured in three music videos (again directed by Sarkar) for ‘Euphoria’, Shubha Mudgal and Pankaj Udhas. She started work as an actress in the Malayalam movie Chakram, paired against Mohanlal, however the film was abandoned mid-way through production.

After making her debut in television advertising as a model for a Surf Excel advertisement in 1998, she proceeded to do over 25 TV ads, (mostly directed by Pradeep Sarkar), followed with a variety of acting stints in music videos (Euphoria, Shubha Mudgal and Pankaj Udhas), Hindi TV soap operas (Hanste Khelte and Hum Paanch) and a Bengali movie, Bhaalo Theko, for which she won the Best Actress Anand Lok Puraskar award in Kolkata.

Deepika Padukone is the daughter of former World badminton Champion Prakash Padukone.The hot actress did many campaigns for Liril soap, Close-Up toothpaste, Limca etc.She was the brand ambassadorship of the Jewels of India.She was recognised internationally when Maybelline, a prestigious cosmetic company made her their new international cover face.She was awarded the title of Model of the Year at the fifth annual Kingfisher Fashion Awards.

She was one of the models for the Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar for 2006.The hot bollywood actress won two trophies at the Idea Zee F Awards in 2006 – Female Model of the year and Fresh Face of the year.She started her film career by starring in the music video for “Naam Hai Tera” with Himesh Reshammiya.There are some rumours about Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone relations but the fact was not confirmed by either of them.

Though Deepika Padukone played badminton during her school days she could not go beyond state level, she just moved to modelling.Deepika Padukone grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him. It was a wonderful experience working with Shah Rukh and Farah. I have learnt a lot from both of them.

Shah Rukh is a great human being. I had done quite a bit of modeling and wanted to give acting a try. That’s when Farah approached me and I accepted. Today, I’m so glad that I waited since I could not have had a better debut.Farah and SRK have taken superb care of me. Farah treats me like her child. I never wanted to be a Bollywood heroine. The thought never crossed my mind.

As a child, I never stuck poses in front of the mirror.I will be choosy and work in good films only. I am not interested in exposing even if I am offered good money.I played state level badminton till the 10th standard. Then I had to study for my ICSE board exams, so I stopped playing for three months and modelling happened after that.