Who is Priyanka Chopra Jonas: Biography, Personal Life, Career

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Who is Priyanka Chopra Jonas

When she won the Miss World title in 2000, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, an Indian actress, singer, model, and social worker, shot to fame. Because of her widespread fame, Priyanka Chopra caught the attention of the Bollywood community and decided to pursue an acting career.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas: Early Life

Priyanka was born on July 18, 1982, to Indian Army doctors Ashok and Madhu Chopra in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. Due to her father's military employment, Priyanka spent her early years moving around India. Priyanka went to La Martinciiere Girls' School in Lucknow when she was younger, but when she was 13, she moved to the US to live with her aunt. She frequently changed schools there as well due to her aunt's family's transferable job.

After living in the USA for three years, Priyanka returned to India and finished her education at Army Public School, Bareilly. The former Miss World and her family, especially her father, who passed away in June 2013, have a very close relationship. According to Book My Show, Priyanka is related to the actress Parineeti Chopra and has a younger brother named Siddharth.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas: Movie Career

The stunning actress made her acting debut in A. Majith's Tamil language political drama Thamizhan from 2002. Alongside Vijay, she was given the lead role in the film, which was hailed as a success at the box office. The following year, Priyanka made her Bollywood debut in Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel-costarring Anil Sharma's The Hero: Love Story of a Spy. Priyanka received praise for her performance and was honored with her first Stardust Award for Best Supporting Actress, despite the movie's mediocre box office performance. Her second movie of the year was Andaaz by Raj Kanwar. Priyanka appeared in the box office hit alongside actors Akshay Kumar and Lara Dutta in a costarring role. She was honored with the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her portrayal of Jiya Singhaniya.

After starring in a string of box office duds like Plan, Kismat, and Asambhav, Priyanka was cast alongside Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor Khan in Abbas-romantic Mustan's thriller Aitraaz in 2004. The movie was successful, and Priyanka was praised by critics for her portrayal of the villain. In a negative role, she took home the Filmfare Award for Best Performance. Her subsequent films included Bluffmaster, Waqt: The Race Against Time, and Karam. The movies were well received by the audience, and Priyanka won praise for the variety of her portrayals of her characters in the blockbuster movies.

Priyanka in the movie "We can be heroes". Photo: USA News Hub

She appeared in the action thriller Don (2006), a remake of the 1978 movie of the same name directed by Farhan Akhtar. The movie, which also stars Shah Rukh Khan, Boman Irani, and Isha Koppikar, has been hailed as a box office success. "Priyanka Chopra is the film's big surprise," Raja Sen of Rediff.com said of the actress's performance. "Stepping into Zeenat Aman's shoes is a tough ask, but she doesn't really waste her time pretending to be the stunner's successor. Chopra handles her role with efficiency, looking every bit the competent woman of action — and a ravishing babe who fills out a skintight white jumpsuit deliciously" (2008).

Her performance in Madhur Bhandarkar's 2008 film Fashion, which portrayed the lives of models in the fashion industry, marked a turning point in her career. Both the audience and the critics unanimously praised Priyanka's portrayal of a would-be model; she later won the National Award for it. She co-starred with Shahid Kapoor in Vishal Bhardwaj's suspenseful film Kaminey in 2009. The movie received positive reviews and did well financially, earning 71 crores INR worldwide. The actress then made a subsequent appearance in Ashutosh Gowariker's film What's Your Raashee? and secured her place in the Guinness World Records as the first actress to play 12 different characters in a single movie. Despite the film's dismal box office performance, Priyanka received a nomination for Best Actress at the Screen Awards for her outstanding performance.

The following notable performance by Priyanka was in Anurag Basu's Barfi in 2012! alongside Ileana D'Cruz and Ranbir Kapoor. She received favorable reviews for her performance as Jhilmil Chatterjee, a physically challenged and autistic woman. The movie was also a critical and financial success. With an outstanding performance as Kashibai in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Bajirao Mastani, which was released in 2015, Priyanka once again demonstrated why she is regarded as one of the best actresses. The movie, starring Deepika Padukone as Mastani and Ranveer Singh as Bajirao, was a box office smash and won numerous accolades. For the same, Priyanka received the Filmfare and IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Priyanka appeared in Zoya Akhtar's comedy-drama Dil Dhadakne Do in 2015. The film, which starred Anil Kapoor, Shefali Shah, Ranveer Singh, Farhan Akhtar, and Anushka Sharma, received positive reviews from critics and did well at the box office. In 2016, the actor had a single film out, Prakash Jha's Jai Gangajal. The film had average reviews when it debuted and did poorly at the box office. The Hollywood movie Baywatch, which also stars Dwayne Johnson, Zac Effron, Pamela Anderson, and Alexandra Daddario, is among the actress' 2017 releases. She will star alongside Farhan Akhtar in the 2019 film Sky is Pink, directed by Shonali Bose.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas's TV Career

Priyanka Chopra made her Hollywood debut on television by starring in the American crime drama Quantico. Photo: Vimocafe

Priyanka Chopra's role in the American crime drama Quantico marked her television debut in Hollywood. She is the first woman from South Asia to play the main character in an American drama series. She portrays FBI recruit Alex Parrish in the ABC studio production. She received praise for her work and the People's Choice Award for Favorite Actress in a New TV Series, making history as the first South Asian actress to win the prestigious accolade.

In 2008, she took over as host of the third season of the reality series Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi from outgoing host Akshay Kumar. For the same, she was given the Indian Telly Award for Most Influential Television Debut.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas: Music Career

Priyanka released her second single 'Exotic' in 2013. Photo: Youtube

Priyanka began her singing training as a young child after being inspired by her father. She recorded for several films in her early years in Bollywood, including Thamizhan, but her big break came in 2012 when she was signed by the Creatives Artist Agency in Los Angeles. She then released her debut single, "In My City," which features rapper will.i.am. The song was popular in India but did not live up to the hype outside of the country.

She released her second single, "Exotic," featuring American rapper Pitbull, the following year. Both in India and abroad, the song's audience received an average response.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas: Personal Life

Priyanka with her husband - Nick Jonas. Photo: Pinkvilla

During the summer of 2018, the actress and singer-actor Nick Jonas made their relationship public. The couple announced their engagement in late July. Jonas reportedly proposed to Chopra on her 36th birthday. In a multi-day lavish ceremony that started on December 1, 2018, according to Biography, the couple got married.

According to a source quoted in an Entertainment Weekly article, Nick and Priyanka haven't been pressuring themselves to start a family. They are having a great time traveling, working, and being married. The couple accepts that whatever happens will be a blessing when it does.