Born on: 18 July 1982Sign: cancer
Mother: Dr. Madhu Chopra
Father: Capt. Dr. Ashok Chopra, doctor in the Indian Army.
Siblings: younger brother Siddharth, who is eight years younger than her.
Father: Capt. Dr. Ashok Chopra, doctor in the Indian Army.
Siblings: younger brother Siddharth, who is eight years younger than her.
Her dad is Punjabi-speaking, while her mom is from Bihar. As a child, she suffered from Asthma and was very close to her dad. Her family affectionately called her Mimi.
While she was born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, she also spent her childhood in Rae Barreilly, in Uttar Pradesh as well as in Lucknow, where she was enrolled in the La Martiniere Girls’ School.
She subsequently 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 respectively.
She wanted to become a software engineer or a criminal psychologist.
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.
Favorite food: dish Lasagna, makki roti and sarson kasaag
Favorite movies: Pretty Woman, Walk in the Clouds
Favorite outfit: sari
Favourite hero: Mel Gibson, Kishore Kumar
Favorite movies: Pretty Woman, Walk in the Clouds
Favorite outfit: sari
Favourite hero: Mel Gibson, Kishore Kumar
Favourite heroine: Sushmita Sen and Indira Gandhi.
Favourite film: 'Pretty Woman', 'A Walk in the Cloud.
Favorite food : Dish lasagna, Makki roti and sarson kasaag.
Favorite magazine : Femina and Reader's Digest
Favourite song : 'Careless Whispers', 'I will always love you’
Hobbies: singing and writing poetry
She is the brand ambassador of -TAG Heuer, Sunsilk.
Debut Film: She debuted with a Tamil film, Thamizhan (2002). However, her Bollywood debut was with The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2002).
Some interesting facts about her-
Some facts are like Priyanka has a thing for sweet and sour treats like jeera goli.
Her aunt used to call her 'Kaali' and it was actually Priyanka's Mom who should be attributed to her Bollywood career because she sent 'passport sized snaps' of Priyanka wearing a suit as an entry for the Miss India competition, something that was meant to be sent to Australia for a scholarship exam in an engineering college.
Priyanka Chopra says she loves her mobile and cannot live without it, which she mostly uses as a dairy.
She is a twitter freak.
While shooting the song “Do Me A Favor, Let’s Play Holi” in the movie Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005), she stepped on a live wire and received a shock. She was hospitalized for a day.
Turned down the lead in Umrao Jaan (2006) to work in Bluffmaster! (2005).
Listed #1 by UK magazine Eastern Eye one of “Asia’s Sexiest Women” (Sept/2006).
Appeared on the cover of the premiere issue of Maxim magazine, Indian version, released in 2006.
She is the first actress who was nominated both for the Best Villain and Best Supporting Actress in a single year at the Filmfare Awards in 2005.
Priyanka Chopra was supposedly dating actor Harman Baweja. but the two are not together any more. Later rumours linked her to Shahid Kapoor but the two denied.
The original end of the film Fashion had Priyanka becoming pregnant but Priyanka convinced Madhur Bhandarkar to change Fashion's climax.
While shooting for movie fashion at Mehboob Studios,a model named Rebecca fainted on the ramp. Priyanka, who was near by, immediately rushed to her aid. When the model gained consciousness, Priyanka asked the model to make herself comfortable in her vanity van and also gave her some nimbu-paani.
While shooting for the movie Kaminay, Vishal Bhardwaj had been making Priyanka scream her lungs off for the film, leaving Priyanka speechless, almost.
Priyanka had to wore a burkha and travel in a local train from Goregaon to Churchgate to attend the award ceremony, which was scheduled post the shoot of Kaminay. Since Priyanka was very well aware of Mumbai's traffic jam, she preferred travelling by train and hence wore a burkha to hide her identity. The organisers of the awards ceremony sent a car to pick up Priyanka from the Churchgate station.
Today she is regarded as the topmost actress of Bollywood and indeed has miles to go...
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