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Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra, better known in Bollywood as Desi Girl, won Miss World in 2000, at the mere age of 18. She hailed from a non-acting background. Both her parents served as Physcians in the Indian Military.
Due to her parent's demanding careers, she had to frequently move across the country and across the globe too, which exposed her to various cultures, although she considers Bareilly as her home.
When she was a teenager, Chopra moved to the United States. There, she participated in several theater productions, studied Western classical music and Choral singing. She had to endure racial bullying, but her modest and hardworking temperament helped her to overcome it.

She started competing in several beauty pageant contests. She considers her Miss World title win the turning point for her career.
In 2016, the Government of India honored her with the Padma Shri. Forbes India listed her among the World's 100 most powerful women.
Her first film debut was supposed to be the 2002 movie Hamraaz, but due to several reasons she could not it fell through.Then again in 2003 she again made her debut with Hero: love story of a spy.
Between 2005 and 2006, she rose to prominence, where she did 6 films in 2005. Soon after some highs and lows in her career, her ship sailed smoothly with her striking movies like ‘Barfi, Mary Kom, Fashion, Agneepath.

Soon after her career went overseas with her Hollywood debut ‘Quantico’ and then ‘Baywatch’. But for Chopra, all the glitters are not gold when she said that in order to step into Hollywood she had to shed her Indian-ness and often losing her self and identity. But her diligence got her to the front posters.
Chopra also supports various causes through her foundation "The Priyanka Chopra Foundation for Health and Education” and has worked with UNICEF since 2006 and in 2010 was appointed as the national UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Nevertheless, Chopra never let worldly glam let her religious attributes down. She performs her Puja every morning at a small shrine at her house.
She tied the knot with Nick Jonas, American singer-musician in 2018.

18 Jul,1982
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