Katrina Kaif - Biography

Date of Birth (Birthday):       16 July, 1984
Hair Color:                           Black
Birth Place:                          London, Great Britain
Marital Status:                      Single
Languages:                          English, Poor Hindi

Family Background

Father:                                 Originally from Kashmir
Mother:                                 British
Spouse:                                boyfriend Salman Khan

Film Background (Filmography)

Debut Film:                          Boom
Famous Movies:                   Hum Ko Deewana Kar Gaye

                                 Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya, Sarkar

Other Facts:                         She is half Indian

 Katrina Kaif was born on 16 July 1984. Katrina is a British Indian actress and former model who appears in Indian films, mainly in the Hindi-language film industry. She has also appeared in some of Telugu and Malayalam films. She was voted the sexiest Asian woman in the world by Eastern Eye in the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Being a British citizen, she works in India on an employment visa.

Katrina Kaif made her acting debut with Kaizad Gustad's box office failure Boom. She tasted success in 2007 with Vipul Shah's Namastey London and Anees Bazmee's Welcome. She has since appeared in films like New York (2009) and Rajneeti (2010). While the former earned Kaif her first Film fare Award for Best Actress nomination, the latter emerged as her biggest commercial success so far.

Katrina Kaif was born to a 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 once stated, "My dad, unfortunately, and not out of choice, has had no influence on our upbringing, on our religious or social or moral bearings." Kaif has seven siblings. From Hong Kong, she and her family moved to China, then to Japan. From there she went (by boat) to France when she was 8, and thereafter lived for a few months at a time in Switzerland, Kraków, Berlin, Belgium, and many other East European countries. Then she moved with her family to Hawaii, and eventually to her mother's home country of England. Although it is often assumed that Kaif is from London, she lived there only for three years before finally moving to Mumbai.

Katrina Kaif began her modeling career at age fourteen; her first assignment was for a jewelry campaign. She continued modeling in London under a contract with the Models 1 Agency and did campaigns for houses such as La Senza and Arcadius, and even walked on the London Fashion Week.

Katrina Kaif's modeling work led to her discovery by London-based filmmaker Kaizad Gustad, who gave her a part in his film Boom (2003). The film, which starred Amitabh Bachchan and Gulshan Grover, failed to make an impact. She then moved to Mumbai and was offered a number of modeling assignments, but filmmakers were hesitant to cast Kaif due to her poor command of Hindi.

She is very particular about her clothes which she wears a bold outfit on screen or for ads, but she feels more comfortable in not-so-revealing clothes in personal life. And the one thing she hates is make up.

She refuses to speak about her personal life in the media.

Besides walking the ramp for several top designers and being on magazine covers, Katrina has also been the stunning face of Estelle jewelery, Lakme, Pantene, Veet, Kodak cameras, L'Oreal, Samsung, LG etc.

She doesn't do ramp shows anymore.

She was chosen as the face of the year for the Lakme India Fashion Week (2005).

Her favorite Indian designers are Rina Dhaka, Tarun Tahiliani, Rocky S.

Her favorite international designers are Armani, Miu Miu, Prada, Versace.

Favorite actor is Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Aamir Khan. Favorite actresses are Kajol and Madhuri Dixit.

Favorite cricketer is Irfan Pathan.

Favorite Indian food is dahi and rice.

Favorite movies are Umrao Jaan (1981), Casablanca (1942), and Gone with the Wind (1939).

Favorite perfume is Gucci Rush.

Prefers acting over modeling.

Katrina Kaif has played the following remarkable rules in her movies.

Year	Film	Role
2003	Boom	Rina Kaif/Popdi Chinchpokli
2004	Malliswari	Princess Malliswari
2005	Sarkar	Pooja
	Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya	Sonia
	Allari Pidugu	Shwetha
2006	Hum Ko Deewana Kar Gaye	Jia A. Yashvardhan
	Balram vs. Taradas	Supriya
2007	Namastey London	Jasmeet "Jazz" Malhotra
	Apne	Nandini Sarabhai
	Partner	Priya Jaisingh
	Welcome	Sanjana Shetty
2008	Race	Sophia
	Singh Is Kinng	Sonia Singh
	Hello	Story-teller
	Yuvvraaj	Anushka Banton
2009	New York	Maya Shaikh
	Blue	Nikki
	Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani	Jennifer "Jenny" Pinto
	De Dana Dan	Anjali Kakkad
2010	Raajneeti	Indu Sakseria/Pratap
	Tees Maar Khan	Anya Khan
2011	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara	Laila
	Mere Brother Ki Dulhan	TBA
	Main Krishna Hoon	Radha
2012	Ek Tha Tiger	TBA