Genelia D’Souza
Genelia Deshmukh is an Indian film actress and model. She has appeared in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films. She received her first Filmfare Award in 2006 for her performance in the Telugu romantic film, Bommarillu.
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Genelia Deshmukh is an Indian film actress and model. She has appeared in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films. She received her first Filmfare Award in 2006 for her performance in the Telugu romantic film, Bommarillu. In 2008, she gave critically acclaimed performances in Santosh Subramaniam and Jaane Tu.. Ya Jaane Na. Genelia has been the brand ambassador of Fanta, Virgin Mobile India, Fastrack, LG Mobiles, Garnier Light, Margo, and Perk in India. She is an East Indian, a Marathi speaking Christian from North Konkan. She was raised in the Bandra suburb of Mumbai. Her mother Jeanette D’Souza was a managing director of the Pharma Multinational corporation. She left her job in 2004 to help Genelia with her career. She completed her degree while shooting for her first film, Tujhe Meri Kasam in 2003 and initially thought that an MNC job would suit her. She liked sports and studies in college, and was a state level athlete, sprinter, and a national level football player. She did her first modeling assignment at the age of 15, the result of being spotted as the bridesmaid at a wedding. She gained wide attention from the Parker Pen commercial with Amitabh Bachchan, who said \”she was good, and her expressions were spontaneous\”. She further did a Fair & Lovely 2003 Cricket World Cup advertisement with cricketer Krishnamachari Srikkanth.
She made her Telugu debut in 2003 as a medical student in Satyam. Later, she made her Tamil debut as a girl Harini in Boys, a story about five teenagers having stereotypical teen-boy fantasies. Her name means ‘rare’ or ‘unique’, and is a portmanteau of Jeanette and Neil, her mother and father’s names. She signed three movies simultaneously in three different languages, TuJhe Mera Kasam, Boys, and SatyAm. Genelia’s professional movie career began, with her Bollywood debut Tuj he Meri. She decided to act in South Indian films later, and made her debut as the teenage girl in Tamil film, Harini. In addition to mainstream acting, she has hosted the television show Big Switch, and has been a brand ambassador for Fanta and Virgin Mobile. She also appeared in the reality TV show, Big Switch on the Indian channel, Zee TV. She currently lives in Mumbai with her husband and their two children, and works as an executive at a private security firm in Mumbai. She lives with her parents in the Mumbai suburb of Bandra, Mumbai, and is married to a senior Tata Consultancy Services executive, Neil D’souza, who also works with the Bombay Stock Exchange. Her husband is a senior official with Tata Consultancies Services, and she has a younger brother, Nigel D’ souza.
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