Ileana D'Cruz (born in August 19, 1987 in Mumbai ) is a South Indian film actress. Making Chowdhary's Devadasu Telugu language début in Y.V.S. Chowdhary's Devadasu opposite newcomer, Ram.

D'Cruz, who originally hails from Mumbai, India, had grown up in Mumbai and and currently resides at Goa. Before films, Ileana was modelling for quite some time and doing ads. She has three sisters and two brothers. Her parents named her name after Ileana from greek mythology.

Most of her movies are in Telugu. A lone Tamil film "Kedi" opposite Ravi Krishan didn't do too well. Now a Tamil film opposite Vikram is due to release!

Her Telugu movie Pokiri (2006) was a super hit. Pokiri is Mahesh Babu starred movie. She is very hardworking actress and her co-actors always praise her hardworking nature. Recently she acted with Pawan Kalyan in the movie Jalsa. Her forthcoming film in 2008 isAnother 2008 release of Ileana D'Cruz is "Bhale Dongalu " which is Bollywood film "Bunty aur Babli" remake starring Abhishek Bachchan and Rani Mukerji. Tarun and jagapati Babu play prominent role, directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar and produced by Sakhamuri Panduranga Rao and Bellamonda Suresh. Music is by KM Radha Krishna.

The movie was not very successfull despite the popularity of original Bunty Aur Babli's success

Currently she is dating Amar for the past three years, who loves her a lot and the couple will be married soon, Amar can also be seen in hollywood movies like "Hitch" with Will Smith. Amar back india resides in Mangalore While ileana resides in Goa, but over the weekend both can be seen at Amar's guest house.

[last edited 23 August 2008]