Vidya Balan is an Indian actress, born on January 1, 1978, in Ottapalam, Kerala. Trying to break into the Malayalam and Tamil industries, Vidya started her career with sitcoms, commercials, and music videos. Upon making the Hindi film “Parineeta” in 2005, Vidya won Filmfare’s award for Best Female Debut. By 2009, she was being critically acclaimed for her roles in “Paa” (2009), “Ishqiya” (2011), “No One Killed Jessica” (2011), “The Dirty Picture” (2011), and “Kahaani” (2012). Vidya has played a strong and independent women breaking stereotypes that usually confine Bollywood actresses. Unfortunately, after these hits, Vidya was seen in several unsuccessful movies: “Hamari Adhuri Kahani” (2015), followed by “Te3N”, “Kahaani 2” in 2016, and ‘Begum Jaan” in 2017. This bad cycle was broken with the successful “Tumhari Sulu” (2017), a comedy where a housewife becomes a radio personality. In 2019, Vidya starred in two Telugu biopics playing the wife of N.T. Rama Rao, is a well-known actor turned politician in Andhra Pradesh. She also starred as a scientist in the true story of the ‘Mission Mangal’, India’s space program’s mission to Mars. The patriotic film was very successful at the box office and is her highest-grossing film so far. She was seen earlier this year in Amazon Prime’s ‘Shakuntala Devi’ a biopic of a woman known as ‘the ‘human computer’. Vidya has also done a short film ‘Natkhat’ which can be found on YouTube.  Vidya is married to Siddharth Roy Kapur, producer and founder of Roy Kapur Films and President of the Film and Television Producers Guild of India.

 

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