Katrina Kaif Biography

Kartina was born and brought up in London to an NRI Father and a British Mother. Her father is originally from Kashmir. When she was doing modeling in London, she came to the notice of filmmaker Kaizad Gustad and snapped an important role in his film ‘Boom'.

Katrina then decided to take acting as her full-fledged career and shifted her base to Mumbai.

With her gorgeous face and hourglass figure, Katrina was flooded with modeling assignments in Mumbai.

However, filmmakers were hesitant to sign her because of her linguistic shortcomings. She was even signed for Vikram Bhatt's ‘Saaya' but later dropped from the project due to her poor Hindi.

She has done two Telugu movies - Malliswari(2004) and Allari Pidugu(2005) and a Malayalam film (Balram vs. Taradas). In 2005 she starred in ‘Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya' opposite Salman Khan and Ram Gopal Varma's ‘Sarkar'. ‘Hum Ko Deewana Kar Gaye' with Akshay Kumar followed.

Katrina was born on July 16, 1984, in Hong Kong, grew up in Hawaii and then moved to London. Even at the young age of 14, she got modeling offers and started out by modeling for a jewelry campaign. She was attracted to her father's native land and the moment she landed in India she was flooded with modeling assignments.

She started off with photographer Atul Kasbekar. Later she got offers from Lakme, LG, Cola, Fevicol, Pantene, Veet, Kodak, and L'Oreal. She was chosen as the face of the year for the Lakme India Fashion Week (2005). The Lakme commercial made her very popular. Soon Kaizad Gustad, the director of ‘Boom' noticed her and offered her a role in the film. Since it was the role of a model, she promptly agreed.

Although she wears bold outfits on films and ads, she is very particular about her clothes and she feels more comfortable in not-so-revealing clothes in personal life. And unlike others in her field she absolutely hates wearing make up.

Although she has been seeing Salman Khan for sometime now, she still refuses to talk about him in the media. She has made it clear that her personal life is not meant to be known to all and that no one has a right to pass any kind of judgment on it.

She has lot of exciting projects lined up. One of them is ‘Partner' with boyfriend Salman Khan and Govinda. She is also doing ‘Apne' in which real life father and sons Dharmendra, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol all stars together in the movie, for the first time. Then there is Anees Bazmee's ‘Welcome' with Akshay Kumar. Another film with Akshay Kumar ‘Namaste, London' is all set to release on March.