Shraddha Kapoor

Shraddha Kapoor (born 3 March 1987 or 1989India Today said she turned 35 on 3 March 2022. Indian Express mentioned her birthday 3 March 1987. Articles of The Times of India's and Mumbai Mirror from 4 March 2016 mentioned her age 27. As per age calculator according to TOI her birthday year is 1989.

In an interview with Filmfare, Shakti Kapoor revealed that Kapoor was barely 16 years old when she was offered her first film, Lucky: No Time for Love (2005) by Salman Khan, after he saw one of her school play performances, but she rejected the proposal as she was aspiring to become a psychologist.

Kapoor was trained as a singer since her childhood as her maternal grandfather and mother are classical singers.

The daughter of actor Shakti Kapoor, she began her acting career with a brief role in the 2010 heist film Teen Patti, and followed it with her first leading role in the teen drama Luv Ka The End (2011).

The latter earned her the Stardust Award for Best Actress.

Kapoor made her acting debut in the 2010 thriller Teen Patti, alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley and R. Madhavan.

She played the role of a college girl.

The film received generally negative reviews, though her performance was better received.

Preeti Arora, writing for Rediff.com stated that: "though a bit raw, she has a lot of potential."

Nikhat Kazmi reviewed: "Shraddha Kapoor makes an interesting debut as the edgy youngster who sheds her specs for sleaze, with alacrity."

The film failed to do well at the box office; however Kapoor's performance earned her a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.

After her debut, she signed a three-film deal with Yash Raj Films and featured in their 2011 teen comedy Luv Ka The End, with Taaha Shah.

Kapoor portrayed the lead role of a teenage student who plots against her boyfriend after he cheats on her.

The film underperformed at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics.

However, Kapoor's performance received positive critical reviews.

Taran Adarsh wrote: "Shraddha is a revelation, catching you unaware with a confident performance. She's electrifying in the sequence when she breaks down after getting to know the true intentions of her lover."

For her performance, Kapoor received the Stardust Searchlight Award for Best Actress.

Kapoor had her breakthrough playing a singer in the commercially successful romantic musical Aashiqui 2 (2013), for which she received a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. One of India's highest-paid actresses, Kapoor has been featured in Forbes India Celebrity 100 list since 2014 and was featured by Forbes Asia in their 30 Under 30 list of 2016.

The following year, she portrayed a character based on Ophelia in Vishal Bhardwaj's highly acclaimed ensemble drama Haider (2014).

Kapoor established herself with starring roles in the romantic thriller Ek Villain (2014), the dance drama ABCD 2 (2015) and the action film Baaghi (2016).

She is the celebrity endorser for several brands and products, in 2015, she launched her own line of clothing.

On Instagram, Kapoor is the second most-followed Indian actor.

Kapoor was born and raised in Mumbai.

On her father's side, Kapoor is of Punjabi descent, and on her mother's side, she is of Marathi and Konkani descent.

Her maternal grandfather, Pandharinath Kolhapure's, (the nephew of Deenanath Mangeshkar and maternal first cousin of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle) paternal family hailed from Kolhapur and her maternal grandmother hailed from Panaji, Goa.

In an interview with The Hindustan Times, Kapoor revealed that, she was raised in a Marathi cultural setting as her maternal relatives lived in Maharashtra.

She has said that she went through a tomboyish phase as a child and described herself as having a strong attitude, because of which she was deliberately picking fights with boys.

Kapoor's family members include her father Shakti Kapoor and mother Shivangi Kapoor, her elder brother Siddhanth Kapoor, her two aunts Padmini Kolhapure and Tejaswini Kolhapure, who, besides her mother, are all actors in Indian Cinema.

She is the great-niece of Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Meena Khadikar, Usha Mangeshkar and Hridaynath Mangeshkar.

Hailing from a family of actors, Kapoor desired to become an actress since a young age.

Wearing her parents' clothes, she used to rehearse film dialogues and dance to Bollywood songs in front of the mirror.

She also accompanied her father to various shooting locations in her childhood.

During one of David Dhawan's shoots, Kapoor befriended actor Varun Dhawan, to play with him, and they were holding a torch pretending it to be a camera while delivering film lines to each other, and they were also dancing to Govinda's film songs.

Kapoor did her schooling at Jamnabai Narsee School and at the age of 15, she shifted to the American School of Bombay where she was schoolmates with Tiger Shroff and Athiya Shetty.

In an interview with The Times of India, Shetty revealed that they all used to participate in dance competitions.

Believing herself to be competitive at the age of 17, Kapoor played soccer and handball as she thought these games were challenging.

Kapoor then enrolled in Boston University to major in psychology, but she left in her freshman year to appear in her debut film after she was seen on Facebook by producer Ambika Hinduja, who cast her for a role in Teen Patti.

Following a series of poorly-received films, her highest-grossing releases came with the comedy horror Stree (2018), the action thriller Saaho (2019), the comedy drama Chhichhore (2019), and the romantic comedy Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar (2023).

In addition to acting in films, Kapoor has sung several of her film songs.