Priyanka Chopra Jonas (born 18 July 1982) is an Indian actress, singer, and film producer. She was the winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant. Chopra is one of India’s highest-paid and most popular entertainers. She has received numerous accolades, including a National Film Award.
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas (born 18 July 1982) is an Indian actress, singer, and film producer. She was the winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant. Chopra is one of India’s highest-paid and most popular entertainers. She has received numerous accolades, including a National Film Award and five Filmfare Awards. In 2016, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri and Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Despite maintaining privacy, Chopra’s off-screen life, including her marriage to American singer and actor Nick Jonas, is the subject of substantial media coverage. She also promotes social causes such as environment and women’s rights, and is vocal about gender equality, the gender pay gap, and feminism. She is also the founder of the production company Purple Pebble Pictures, under which she has produced several regional Indians films, including the acclaimed Marathi film Ventilator. Her namesake foundation for health and education works towards providing support to unprivileged Indian children. Her late maternal grandmother was a Jacobite Syrian Christian originally named Mary John, belonging to the Kavalappara family of Kumarakom, Kottayam district, Kerala. Her father was a Punjabi Hindu from Ambala, and her mother is the eldest daughter of Dr. Manohar Kishan Akhouri, a former Congress veteran, and Madhu Jyotsna Akhouri.
Her brother is Siddharth, who is seven years her junior, and she is cousins with actresses Parineeti Chopra, Meera Chopra and Mannara Chopra. She maintains strong connections with the town of Bareilly, and considers it her strong home and her strong connection with the people of the region is still strong today. She lives in New York City with her husband Nick Jonas and their three children. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her family, and has a husband and two young children. The couple have a son, a daughter, and a son-in-law, who lives in the United States with his mother and step-father, both of whom are from India. She and Nick Jonas are expecting their first child, a boy, in the spring of 2018. She says she is looking forward to the new arrival and hopes it will be an exciting time for the family and the country. The family has lived in a number of places in India, including Delhi, Chandigarh, Ambala and Ladakh, Lucknow, Bareilly and Pune. She grew up in a stupa on the top of a hill which used to overlook a valley and used to look out over the valley. She recalls playing in the cold valleys of Leh, when she was just 4 years old. She said: “I think I was just born in Class 4, when I was in Leh, I was playing a game of discover society, in a cold, cold society, playing the cold valley”
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