Kareena Kapoor

Great grand niece of actor Trilok Kapoor (Prithviraj' brother). Trilok's son Vicky Kapoor acted in Har Har Mahadev in 1950.

Her favorite pastime is watching TV. Her favorite TV shows are Friends (1994), Sex and the City (1998), Frasier (1993), Prison Break (2005), How I Met Your Mother (2005), Poirot (1989), Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984), The Killing (2011), The Big Bang Theory (2007), Downton Abbey (2010), Game of Thrones (2011), The Fall (2013), The Affair (2014), The Tudors (2007), Rome (2005), House of Cards (2013), Homeland (2011) and Narcos (2015).

Her favorite movies are The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Titanic (1997), From Doom Till Doom (1988), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) and Prem Rog (1982).

Kareena was born to Sindhi-speaking Babita (nee Shivdasani) and Punjabi-speaking Randhir Kapoor in Bombay, India. She has an elder sister, Karisma. She is born in a family that have been actors for generations, including her paternal great-grandfather, Prithviraj Kapoor; her grandfather, Raj Kapoor; her paternal uncles, Shammi, Shashi, Rishi, and Rajiv; as well as aunt, Neetu Singh, & Jennifer Kendall, the wives of Rishi and Shashi respectively. On her maternal side, her grandfather, Hari Shivdasani, and aunt, Sadhana, have been actors in their own rights. As a child she studied in Jamnabai Narsee School in Juhu, Bombay, and thereafter was enrolled in Dehra Dun's prestigious Welham Girls' Boarding School. Then she re-located to Harvard for approximately 3 months to take a course in information technology and microcomputers. Upon her return to India, she joined the Government Law College in Churchgate, Bombay, but left it after one year, to enroll in the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting School. Her film debut was in the year 2000 with Refugee (2000) along with the debut of Amitabh Bachchan's son, Abhishek.

She went on to appear in 31 other Hindi movies, and has thus far won four awards for her performances in Refugee (2000), Chameli (2003), Dev (2004), and Omkara (2006).

Sudhir Mishra wanted to remake his "Main Zinda Hoon", with Kareena enacting the role originally played by Deepti Naval. This was in 2003 .However this time around the screenplay will be slightly changed. The new location is America and the project's title was'Anuradha In America'. The project got shelved.

Did not attend her cousin's (Riddhima Kapoor) wedding with Bharat Sawhney that took place in Bombay on Wednesday January 25, 2006. Also absent was her sister, Karisma, and mom, Babita.

She is one of the most sought-after actresses in Bollywood, considered bankable, with an enviable A-listing and as of June 2007 is to appear in 'Tashan', 'Lajjo', 'Kismat Talkies' amongst others.

Although Kareena's prescribed diet includes paranthas, momos, cheese, pasta and bananas, which are mostly considered fattening, it is her daily practice of yoga that keeps her fit for her role in Tashan (2008).

Her mother Babita Kapoor's aunt is classic actress Sadhana. In 2013, Sadhana confirmed that because of a family problem, she and Babita don't acknowledge each other.

Mother, with husband Saif Ali Khan, of son Taimur Ali Khan Pataudi (b. December 20, 2016).