Sridevi Kapoor

Sridevi Kapoor

D.O.B.: 13th Aug, 1963

Gender: Female

Industry: Bollywood

Profession Actor

 

Biography:

Sridevi (born Sree Amma Yanger) is an Indian actress who has acted over three hundred films throughout her career. She has established herself as one of the most successful and influential actress of Bollywood. She has worked in different language films including Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada. She is a recipient of numerous awards and nominations, she has won five Filmfare Awards for Best Actress and the Nandi Award for Best Actress. She was honored for her contributions in films by various state governments, including Governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. In 2013, she was awarded the Padma Shri India's fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India. Sridevi began her career as a child artist in M.A. Thirumugham's devotional Thunaivan at the age of four, and continued to act as a child artist in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She made her Bollywood debut as a child artist in Julie (1975) and got her first breakthrough as a lead actress with the Tamil film Moondru Mudichu (1976). Sridevi's Bollywood debut as a lead actress was in Solva Sawan (1978), and she attracted wide public attention with Himmatwala (1983), which was followed by a number of popular films in the 1980s and 1990s such as Sadma, Nagina, Mr. India, Chaalbaaz, Chandni, Lamhe, Khuda Gawah and Judaai. In 2012, Sridevi returned to films after a 15-year long hiatus with English Vinglish.


Family and personal life

Sridevi was born in Sivakasi, Tamilnadu on 13 August 1963. Her birth name is Sree Amma Yanger. Her mother was from Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. So Sridevi grew up speaking Tamil and Telugu, her mother tongue. She has a sister named Srilatha and a stepbrother named Satish. Her dad passed away during the year 1991, while her mom died during 1997. During the 1980s, Chakraborty had a love affair with Sridevi. Sridevi had fallen in love with Chakraborty on the sets of Rakesh Roshan's Jaag Utha Insan. Sridevi and Mithun Chakraborty had got married secretly and later Chakraborty admitted it to the press but only when a fan magazine published their marriage certificate. Sridevi married Boney Kapoor, a film producer and the elder brother of actors Anil Kapoor and Sanjay Kapoor, in 1996. They have two daughters, Janhvi and Khushi.

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