Age: 28 years
Birthday: 16th July, 1984
Zodiac: Cancer
Marital
status: Single
Awards: Rajiv Gandhi Award
Trivia: Katrina Kaif was known as Salman
Khan’s long term girlfriend.
She
was voted at the No. 1 spot in FHM India’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll.
Katrina
Kaif Biography
Towering
at 5’8”, with an hour-glass figure, the beautiful and elegant Katrina Kaif
stands apart and is not one to go unnoticed.
Katrina
was born in Hong Kong to an Indian Kashmiri father, Mohammed Kaif, and an
English mother, Suzanne Turquotte, both of whom are British citizens. Her
parents divorced when she was very young. Kaif has seven siblings. She was
raised in Hawaii and later moved to her mother’s home country, England.
Katrina
began her modelling career in Hawaii at the age fourteen; her first job was for
a jewellery campaign. She continued modelling in London and did several
advertising campaigns, and even walked the ramp in the London Fashion Week.
While in London, was spotted by Kaizad Gustad, who casted Katrina in his 2003
film, Boom,
which sank without a trace. Movie offers initially trickled in owing largely to
her unfamiliarity with Indian languages. In 2004, she played the part of
Princess Malliswari in the Telugu movie Malliswari,
followed by another Telugu film, Allari
Pidugu.
Katrina
saw moderate success with the 2005 film Sarkar
and Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya
(2005), where she was paired opposite Salman Khan. She co-starred with Akshay
Kumar in Humko Deewana Kar
Gaye, in 2006; the movie flopped but her pairing with Kumar became
a super hit jodi.
Five
releases marked 2007 for Katrina. Namastey
London with Akshay Kumar was one of the year’s top hits, for which
Katrina did her own dubbing for the first time. The other three movies were Apne with the Deols, David
Dhawan’s Partner
and Welcome, all
of which performed well at the box office.
In
2008, we caught her in two blockbusters- Race
and Singh Is Kinng, both of which did
well. Her first release for 2009, New
York, was also a commercial success. At the year’s end, she
appeared in Ajab Prem Ki
Ghazab Kahani, with Ranbir Kapoor, and in De Dana Dan. Both films
were did well at the box-office.
Katrina’s
first film of 2010 was the Prakash Jha directed political thriller, Raajneeti, where she
appeared opposite Ranbir Kapoor. The film did extremely well at the
box-office.Katrina also starred in Tees
Maar Khan with Akshay Kumar in which her item song, Sheila Ki Jawani, was a
huge hit.
In
2011, Katrina Kaif was seen in Zoya Akhtar’s Zindagi
Na Milegi Dobara and Yash Raj Films’ Mere Brother Ki Dulhan. Both these films did
well at the box-office.
Katrina
Kaif will next be seen in two Yash Raj Films’ projects: opposite Salman Khan in
Ek Tha Tiger and
opposite Shah Rukh Khan in another film.
