Genelia D Souza

Name: GENELIA D'SOUZA
Born: August 5, 1982
Birth Place: England
Height: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Nationality: Indian
Religion: Christian
Debut Movie: Tujhe Meri Kasam (Hindi)
Education: School: Apostolic Carmel High School in Bandra

After being born in England, Genelia studied at Apostolic Carmel High School in Bandra, Mumbai. After school, she joined the St. Andrews College, Bandra to pursue a Bachelor's Degree. Mumbai-based Genelia starred in the big budgeted Boys by top director Shankar. She starred opposite fellow débutante Siddharth. The film was a box-office hit and launched her career.

She left Kollywood for a while to concentrate on the Tollywood industry, starring in other successful films including, Satyam, Masti, Samba and Sye. She followed it up with a pairing with popular actress Shriya in Subhash Chandra Bose. She returned to the Tamil industry with the hit, Sachein with Vijay. Her film, Happy opposite Allu Arjun was a hit. Her most recent film, Bommarillu, with Siddharth Narayan, is a super hit. Chennai Kadhal, her Tamil project did average business. She was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai. She has also been a part of many TV ad campaigns, the most famous ones being for Fair and Lovely, Cricket World Cup 2003 with Kris Shrikanth and Parker pens with Amitabh Bachchan.

Films:
2007-Santhosha Subramani-Tamil-Jayam Ravi-Announced
* 2007-Mr. Medhavi-Telugu-Announced
* 2007-Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na-Aditi-Hindi-Imran Khan-Filming
* 2007-Vaaranam Aayiram-Tamil-Surya Sivakumar-Filming
* 2007-Sathya In Love-Kannada-Shivarajkumar-Filming
* 2007-Dhee-Pooja-Telugu-Manchu Vishnu Vardhan Babu
* 2006-Chennai Kadhal-Narmada-Tamil-Bharath
* 2006-Bommarillu-Hasini-Telugu-Siddharth Narayan, Neha Bamb
* 2006-Raam-Lakshmi-Telugu-Nitin, Hrishitaa Bhatt
* 2006-Happy-Madhumathi-Telugu-Allu Arjun, Manoj Bajpai-
* 2005-Naa Alludu-Gagana-Telugu-Jr. NTR, Shriya Saran
* 2005-Sachein-Shalini-Tamil-Vijay, Bipasha Basu, Linda Arsenio
* 2005-Subhash Chandra Bose-Anitha-Telugu-Venkatesh, Shriya Saran
* 2005-Sye-Indhu-Telugu-Nitin, Shashank
* 2004-Samba-Sandhya-Telugu-Jr. NTR, Bhoomika Chawla
* 2004-Masti-Bindhiya-Hindi-Ajay Devgan, Vivek Oberoi, Ritesh Deshmukh
* 2003-Satyam-Ankitha-Telugu-Sumanth
* 2003-Boys-Harini-Tamil-Siddharth Narayan, Bharath
* 2003-Tujhe Meri Kasam-Anju-Hindi-Ritesh Deshmukh, Shriya Saran

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