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Celebrities / Actress

Anushka Sharma

Actress and producer

Anushka Sharma is a Hindi film actress and producer, and one of the leading actresses of the 2010s. She was born in Ayodhya and raised in Bangalore. Her father is a retired army officer, and she has said that growing up in a military family shaped her. Her first modelling job was for the designer Wendell Rodricks in 2007, and she then moved to Mumbai to model full time.

She made her acting debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008), which was a top grosser. She followed it with Yash Raj's romances Band Baaja Baaraat (2010) and Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012), which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. Critics praised her strong-willed women in NH10 and Dil Dhadakne Do (both 2015), Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016) and Sui Dhaaga (2018). Her biggest hits were Sultan (2016) and Rajkumar Hirani's PK (2014) and Sanju (2018).

She co-founded the production company Clean Slate Filmz, which made NH10, Paatal Lok (2020) and Bulbbul (2020). She took a break from acting after Zero (2018). On this guide she appears in PK and plays Aarfa in Sultan.

She has designed her own clothing line for women, called Nush. She supports causes including gender equality and animal rights.

Credits in detail

PK (2014, Hindi) was released 19 December 2014. Anushka Sharma is in the cast, under director Rajkumar Hirani. The cast also includes Aamir Khan, Sushant Singh Rajput and Boman Irani.

Sultan (2016, Hindi) was released 6 July 2016. Anushka Sharma plays Aarfa, under director Ali Abbas Zafar. The cast also includes Salman Khan.

Known for

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi · NH10 · Sultan

Work on ShowBuzz

  • PK

    Film · 2014. An alien lands in Rajasthan and tries to understand God as humans sell it. Rajkumar Hirani’s satire, with Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma.

  • Sultan

    Film · 2016 · as Aarfa. A Haryana wrestler loses the match that mattered, and the marriage, and has to come back older. Ali Abbas Zafar wrote and directed it for Yash Raj. Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma lead. It was one of the biggest Hindi openings of 2016.

  • Sanju

    Film · 2018. A film about the actor Sanjay Dutt, focused on his drug addiction, his arrest over a suspected link to the 1993 Bombay bombings, his relationship with his father Sunil Dutt and his acting career. His wife persuades the London-based biographer Winnie Diaz to tell his true story, and the film moves between her interviews and the life itself.

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