Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Birthday: 1973-11-01 | Place of Birth: Mangalore, Karnataka, IndiaAishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and ultimately won the Miss World title in 1994. Rai has acted in over 40 movies in Hindi, English, Tamil and Bengali, which include few international productions. Often cited by the media as the most beautiful woman in the world, Rai made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar (1997) and had her first commercial success in the Tamil movie Jeans (1998). She gained the attention of Bollywood through the film Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Her performance in the film won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. In 2002 she appeared in Bhansali's Devdas, for which she won her second Filmfare Best Actress Award. After a setback in her career during 2003–2005, she appeared in Dhoom 2 (2006), which turned out to be her biggest commercial success in bollywood. She later appeared in films like Guru (2007), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), and Enthiran (2010) which were commercially successful and critically acclaimed. Rai, thus established herself as one of the leading actresses in Bollywood. In 2009, she was honored with the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Nandini / Mandakini Devi
as Nandini / Oomai Rani
as Baby Singh aka Sumitra Singh
as Dalbir Kaur
as Saba
as Anuradha Verma
as Herself
as Mala Malhotra
as Ragini
as Ragini Subramaniam
as Sana
as Sophie D'souza
as Sonia
as Anita Rajan
as Rajkumari Jodhaa Bai
as Kiranjit Ahluwalia
as Mira
as Sujata Desai
as Ameeran
as Sunehri
as Antara Vashisth/Tammana
as Special Appearance in Kajra re
as Tilo
as Diya Malhotra
as Lalita Bakshi
as Mahalaxshmi
as Neerja "Neeru"
as Binodini
as Namrata Shrivastav
as Tia Sharma
