● • ☆ Genelia D'Souza ☆ • ●

Born : August 5, 1987
Living : Mumbai India
Occupation : Actor/model
Years active : 2003 — present

Genelia D'Souza (born 5 August 1987 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian actress. She has acted in
Telugu and Hindi films and has also appeared in Tamil and Kannada language films.

Biography :

Genelia D'Souza was born to Jeanette D'Souza, formerly secretary to Managing
Director with a pharma MNC, and Neil D'Souza, a senior official with Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS). Her family hails from the Mangalorean Catholic community, a prominent
Christian community in Bombay. Her pet name is Geenu. D'Souza studied at the Apostolic
Carmel High School in Bandra and later joined St. Andrews College (Bandra) to pursue her
Bachelor's Degree of Management Studies.

She was also a State level athlete and a National level Football player.

Career :

Genelia D'Souza made her debut in Bollywood in 2003. Her first Hindi film was Tujhe
Meri Kasam opposite Ritesh Deshmukh. She left Bollywood for a while to concentrate on South Indian films. She first hit the lime-light with a Parker Pen commercial with Amitabh
Bachchan and further did a Fair and Lovely 2003 Cricket World Cup ad with Krishnamachari
Srikkanth. She was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai. The Tamil
director, Shankar, was very much impressed with her performance in both the ads and cast her in a leading role in his Tamil film Boys in 2003 which was a huge success.

She made her Telugu debut with Sathyam opposite Sumanth, which went on to become a
blockbuster. Subsequently, she acted in several films which raised her profile in south
India. She acted in successful telugu films like Happy, and Sye. She followed it up with a
pairing with actor Venkatesh in Subhash Chandra Bose which met with disappointment at the
box-office.

Her second Hindi movie was Masti and was also opposite Ritesh. This film was a
moderate success.

She then played the role of Haasini in the Telugu film, Bommarillu, which also
starred Siddharth Narayan in the lead. This movie was one of the biggest hits in her career
and earned her critical acclaim and wide recognition. She won the Filmfare Award as the Best
Actress for her performance, besides other awards. Her character of Haasini earned rave
reviews and this made her the favourite choice for that role in the remakes of Bommarillu in
other languages. It was remade in Tamil as Santhosh Subramaniam in which Genelia was cast as heroine again. The film also turned out to be rather successful as its predecessor.

Her debut film in Kannada Satya In Love grossed 4 crores in its opening week thus setting a new record in the Kannada film industry.

She once again appeared in Bollywood in Mere Baap Pehle Aap alongside Akshaye
Khanna, which was moderately successful. Her final breakthrough in Bollywood was through the blockbuster, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, where she is the heroine in the role of Aditi Mahant aka "Meow". Her role has been widely admired for her sweetness and freshness, and new style of acting. The movie has debutant Imran Khan, Aamir Khan's nephew, as the hero. The movie released on July 4, 2008 and was a success across India and overseas.Her career in south india also continues with she reigning as a successful star in Telugu film industry.

Her film Ready in which she was paired opposite Ram was a super hit.

Her next film It's My Life, which is again a remake of Bomarillu with Harman Baweja is to be released in 2009. She will also act in David Dhawan's next film which is called Hook Ya Crook opposite John Abraham and Shreyas Talpade for the first time which is a cricket film, the film will be released in 2009.

She also has the other film on her hand which is to released by mid of 2009 which is titled Life Partner with Fardeen Khan. She is now the brand ambassador of the new Fanta replacing Rani Mukherjee. She is also now the brand ambassador of chocolate Perk replacing Preity Zinta.

She now holds a distinct Limca world record of delivering 4 different super hit films in 4 different languages (Satya (Kannada), Santosh Subramaniyam (Tamil), Ready (Telugu) and Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Naa (Hindi)) in span of 1 calendar year.

Awards :

* Filmfare Award for Best Female Actress for Bommarillu (Telugu), 2006.
* Santosham Award for Best Actress for Bommarillu,2006.
* Nandi Special Jury Award for Bommarillu (Telugu), 2006.
* Nandi Jury Award for Bommarillu (Telugu), 2006.