Anushka Sharma was born on 1 May 1988 in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. Her father, Colonel Ajay Kumar Sharma, is an army officer, and her mother, Ashima Sharma, is a homemaker. Her father is a native of Uttar Pradesh, while her mother is a Garhwali. Her elder brother is film producer Karnesh Sharma, who earlier served in the Merchant Navy. Prior to joining the navy, Karnesh played for the under-19 Bangalore Ranji cricket team. Sharma has stated that being a military brat played an important role in shaping her as a person and contributing to her life. In an interview with The Times of India in 2012, she said, “I take pride in saying that I am an army officer’s daughter even more than being an actor. She studied in Army School and graduated with specialization in arts from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. She then moved to Mumbai to further her modeling career. Sharma says she originally wished to make it big in the modeling world but had no strong aspirations for films. She began her modeling career at the Lakme Fashion Week as a model for Wendell Rodricks’s Les Vamps Show and was picked to be Rodricks’s finale model at the Spring Summer ’07 Collection. Since then she has done campaigns for Silk & Shine, Whisper, Nathella Jewelry and Fiat Palio.Her first acting role was in Aditya Chopra’s Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) opposite Shahrukh Khan. The film was a huge success and her performance was appreciated. Film critic Taran Adarsh said, “”Anushka looks the character and surprises you with a confident performance. It’s no small achievement to share screen space with an actor of the caliber of SRK and Anushka manages it very well from start to end.”” Her second film, Badmaash Company, also under Yash Raj Films, was released on May 7, 2010. She was praised for breaking out of the shell of the conservative and homely Taani to play the feisty and independent Bulbul, and her performance was applauded.She has two other projects on hand. She began shooting for her first venture outside of Yash Raj with Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar in Patiala House in December 2009. Patiala House is scheduled to be released on February 11, 2011. She has also started filming for her third Yash Raj Film, Band Baaja Baaraat, directed by Maneesh Sharma and co-starring debutant Ranveer Singh.”
Anushka Sharma
Movies
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Have you ever stopped to think if the most ordinary, uninteresting, unobtrusive man you might see on the road or around you might have a love story to tell? Maybe not. How can an ordinary man have a breathtaking, goose flesh igniting, awe inspiring love story of all things to…
Ladies vs Ricky Bahl
Dimple Chaddha (Parineeti Chopra), a brash 19 year old Delhi college girl falls in love with Sunny Singh, a fitness trainer. Raina Parulekar (Dipannita Sharma), a 28 year old independent and successful corporate woman in Mumbai does business with an art dealer Deven Shah. Saira Rashid (Aditi Sharma), a 24…
Sanju
Few lives in our times are as dramatic and enigmatic as the saga of Sanjay Dutt. Coming from a family of cinema legends, he himself became a film star, and then saw dizzying heights and darkest depths: adulation of die-hard fans, unending battles with various addictions, brushes with the underworld,…
Badmaash Company
BADMAASH COMPANY is a story set in the 1990s, of four ordinary middle-class Bombay youngsters – Karan (Shahid Kapoor), Bulbul (Anushka Sharma), Zing (Meiyang Chang) and Chandu (Vir Das) – who came together to start an import business. With their larger than life schemes, the four go on a wild…
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
Sultan
Sultan is a story of Sultan Ali Khan – a local wrestling champion with the world at his feet as he dreams of representing India at the Olympics. It’s a story of Aarfa – a feisty young girl from the same small town as Sultan with her own set of…
Band Baaja Baaraat
Shruti (Anushka Sharma) is a 20-something no-nonsense girl from a middle class Delhi household. Focused and determined with preplanned ambitions, her goals in life are well laid out by the time she reaches her final year of college. Bittoo (Ranveer Singh), on the other hand, has no real aim in…
Bombay Velvet
Set against the backdrop of ambition, love, greed, and jazz – Bombay Velvet is the story of one ordinary man who goes against all odds and forges his destiny to become a ‘Big Shot’. Jazz clubs, a passionate love story, a growing metropolis and a phenomenal hunger for a good…
Bombay Vikings
Set against the backdrop of ambition, love, greed, and jazz – Bombay Velvet is the story of one ordinary man who goes against all odds and forges his destiny to become a ‘Big Shot’. Jazz clubs, a passionate love story, a growing metropolis and a phenomenal hunger for a good…
PK
P. K. is a comedy of ideas about a stranger in the city, who asks questions that no one has asked before. They are innocent, child-like questions, but they bring about catastrophic answers. People who are set in their ways for generations, are forced to reappraise their world when they…
Jab Harry Met Sejal
The story revolves around Harry and Sejal’s journey across Europe. A search for Sejal’s engagement ring makes Harry understand love and relationships better. Sejal experiences new found freedom, security and solace in Harry’s company and in between all of this – there is love, life, lies, thrill, fantasy and the…
Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Samar Anand, a hard working young immigrant in the city of London, glimpses upon the love of his life, a gorgeous angelic looking girl, (Katrina Kaif). They meet and their bond blossoms into love with time spent together. Samar however meets with a serious accident, and Meera vows to God…
Zero
The story revolves around Bauua Singh (Shah Rukh Khan), a vertically challenged man, who is full of charm and wit, with a pinch of arrogance. Born to a wealthy family and raised in an environment of affluence and indulgence, Bauua was never failed by Meerut or its people. But when…
Fun Facts
Her favorite movies are The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Life Is Beautiful (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), Fish Tank (2009), Jab We Met (2007), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Chak De! India (2007), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and Dil Se.. (1998).
A photo of Anushka appears on the wall in the film Carry On, Munna Bhai (2006). This was 2 years before her debut.
Anushka's first movie in theatre was Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995).
In an interview, She confessed that Aditya Chopra told her that she was not the most good-looking girl around but that she was talented.
Rejected lead roles in 2 States (2014) and Ki & Ka (2016), which went to Alia Bhatt and Kareena Kapoor respectively. Both films were hits at the box office.
She was the first choice for the lead role in Imtiaz Ali's Tamasha (2015). But She rejected the role saying that it wasn't meaty enough. The role went to Deepika Padukone.
In December 2014, Anushka Sharma auctioned the leather jacket she wore in Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012) on eBay, with proceeds going to the redevelopment of the flood-ravaged states of Kashmir and Assam.
She is the youngest bollywood actress who became producer. She became a producer at the age of 25.
She originally intended to pursue a career in modelling or journalism, and had no aspirations to be an actress.
She is the first bollywood actress whose film PK (2014) crossed 300 crore mark at box office.
Her father is a retired Army-Officer and her mother is a housewife. Her brother is in Merchant Navy.
She was once shortlisted for Steven Spielberg's movie based on Indo-Pak relations, along with Bradley Cooper, Denzel Washington and Richard Gere. However, Spielberg dropped the plan of making the movie.
If not an actress, Anushka Sharma would have been a Journalist. Before foraying into modelling world, she had first enrolled for a journalism course.
She was trained by well-known style consultant Prasad Bidapa when she was just 15.
She confessed that she decided to become an actress after watching Kareena Kapoor in the movie Jab We Met (2007).
Anushka Sharma became the first bollywood actress to appear on the Enterpreneur magazine.
She auditioned for Kareena Kapoor's role in 3 Idiots (2009). This was before her debut in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008).
Is a good friend of actors Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif.
She rapped for a song in her film Phillauri (2017).
She admires and respects actor Shah Rukh Khan a lot. Her debut was with Khan. Khan once confessed that she told him that she doesn't like him as an actor, but he is a very good person.
Got married to her boyfriend and Indian cricketer Virat Kohli in 2017, in a private ceremony in Italy.
Sister of Karnesh Ssharma.
Played the role of love interest of a cricketer in the film Patiala House (2011). She would eventually marry real life Indian cricketer Virat Kohli.
Her first co-star, frequent collaborator and ex-boyfriend Ranveer Singh plays the role of former Indian cricket captain Kapil Dev in the film '83 (2021), while her husband Virat Kohli himself serves as the current Indian cricket captain.
Quotes
On memories of her first walk on the ramp: That was long time back when I was only 15. I was told that I should walk just like I walk on the streets and that's exactly what I did. Trust me it was really bad, but it was a great learning experience for me. I was very very very nervous; I started watching fashion shows and reading on fashion. Then I got really involved in it. And with the help of the models who taught me here I am. Now I think I can walk well on the ramp.
On what she does when she isn't modeling: I meet up with my friends; catch up on sleep. I love reading. I'm doing my majors in economics through correspondence because of the lack of time.
My hair is quite healthy. Since I have a contract with Sunsilk they do all the protein treatments for me. The hair pack that they apply makes my hair healthy.
I am blessed with very good skin, but because of the damage from all the make up we apply and pollution I wash my face regularly. I drink lots of water and try to be happy.