Priyanka Chopra is an Indian film actress and singer, and was the winner of the Miss World pageant of 2000. Through her successful film career, Chopra has become one of Bollywood's highest-paid actresses and one of the most popular celebrities in India.In 2000, her mother entered her into the Femina Miss India contest, in
which she finished second and took the Miss India World title. She has won a National Film Award for Best Actress and Filmfare Awards in four categories.
Chopra was born in Jamshedpur to parents who were both physicians in the Indian Army, causing the family to move frequently during her childhood, but she considers Bareilly
her real home. As a teenager she lived for some years with an aunt in
the United States. She subsequently earned wide critical recognition for the role of a seductress in the 2004 thriller
Aitraaz, winning her the 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. She was then entered into the Miss World pageant, where she was crowned Miss World 2000 and Miss World Continental Queen of Beauty—Asia & Oceania, becoming the fifth Indian to win the competition.
The following year, she starred in
The Hero, her first Hindi film release, and followed it with the box-office hit
Andaaz, which won her the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award and a nomination for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.
After receiving mixed reviews for a series of unsuccessful films, she
received critical acclaim for her portrayal of unconventional
characters, including a troubled model in the 2008 drama
Fashion, a feisty Marathi woman in the 2009 caper thriller
Kaminey, a serial killer in the 2011 neo-noir
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),Although 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 pageant wins, making her acting debut in the Tamil film
Thamizhan in 2002. the revenge drama
Agneepath (2012) and
Barfi!, all of which rank among the highest grossing Indian films of all time.