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Sushmita Sen
Sushmita Sen as Kriya in Zindaggi Rocks
Born	Sushmita Sen November 19, 1975 (1975-11-19) (age 34) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Other name(s)	Sush
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994 - present

Sushmita Sen (Hindi: सुष्मिता सेन ; born November 19, 1975 in Hyderabad, India) is an Indian actress who appears in mainly Bollywood films. She is a former beauty queen, who was crowned Miss Universe 1994. She was the first Indian woman to be crowned Miss Universe.

Contents 1 Life history 1.1 Biography 1.2 Miss Universe 1.3 Film career 2 Awards and nominations 2.1 Filmfare Awards 2.2 Star Screen Awards 2.3 IIFA Awards 2.4 Zee Cine Awards 2.5 National honours 3 Filmography 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

Life history

Biography

Sen was born to a Bengali Hindu family. Her father, Shubeer Sen, was a former Indian Air Force Wing Commander and her mother, Subhra Sen, was as a fashion artist and jewelry designer. She has a brother, Rajeev Sen, and a sister, Neelam Sen. She was born St.Theresa's hospital, Hyderabad, and grew up in New Delhi. She attended school at Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute. She graduated from Maitreyi College, Delhi. In 2000, she adopted a daughter, named Renee.

Miss Universe

In 1994, at the age of eighteen, Sushmita won the title of Femina Miss India beating Aishwarya Rai, who was the runner up. Sen represented India at the 1994 Miss Universe Pageant, held in Manila, Philippines and won.

At Miss Universe, Sushmita ranked third overall in the preliminaries, right behind preliminary winner Miss Colombia Carolina Gómez, and Miss Greece Rea Totounzi, who ranked second but won the preliminary swimsuit and evening gown competitions. Sushmita went on to place second, fifth and third in the swimsuit, interview, and evening gown semi-final competitions respectively, placing third place behind Miss Colombia and Miss Venezuela Minorka Mercado. All three women went on to be the final three contestants. In the end, the judges placed their votes on Sushmita, making her the first woman from India to become Miss Universe.

Film career

After her reign as Miss Universe was over, Sushmita became an actress. Her first movie, Dastak was in 1996, where she layed the victim of a stalker, that didn't do well at the box office. Her subsequent Tamil film Ratchagan, was a huge hit.^{citation needed} However, it was two years later that her appearance as Rupali in David Dhawan's movie Biwi No.1 won her the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award in 1999.Biwi No.1 was the highest grossing movie of 1999.¹ The same year, she was also nominated for her role in Sirf Tum in the same category, making her an obvious choice for winner. She received critical acclaim and box office success for film Aankhen.

So far, her biggest hit has been the 2004 movie Main Hoon Na, in which she starred as Shahrukh Khan's love interest.She played in the movie which grossed Rs 34,00,00,000 over the market and was the second best selling movie of that year.² Later on, she played a lawyer in Main Aisa Hi Hoon opposite Ajay Devgan. In 2005, she also starred in a remake of Cactus Flower, called Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya: Sen played the lead opposite Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif. Her most recent movies include Karma, Confessions and Holi (2006) opposite Naomi Campbell, Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag (2007) and the recently announced Dulha Mil Gaya (2007) opposite Shahrukh Khan.

It has been reported that Sushmita will portray the slain Pakistan Peoples Party leader Benazir Bhutto in a film co-produced by Zaid Aziz and Henna Rai of Karachi production firm Vox Vision and Leicester-based Sum Films respectively. Tentatively titled "Benazir Bhutto: The Movie", the film will be shot at various locations in Pakistan, the US, Britain and Dubai, where Bhutto had spent years as a student and later as a political leader in exile. When asked Sushmita about playing this big role, she excitedly told, “Yes, I am keen to play the role.”³

Recently she starred in Do Knot Disturb with longtime screen partner Govinda. The film failed to do well.⁴

Awards and nominations

Filmfare Awards

2000: Best Supporting Actress win for Biwi No.1 (1999)

2000: Best Supporting Actress nomination for Sirf tum (1999)

2003: Best Supporting Actress nomination for Filhaal (2002)

Star Screen Awards

2001 Best Supporting Actress win for Biwi No.1

2004 Best Actress nomination for Samay: When Time Strikes

IIFA Awards

2000 IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award win for Biwi No.1

Zee Cine Awards

2000: Best Supporting Actress win for Biwi No.1 (1999)

2003: Best Supporting Actress win for Filhaal (2002)

2005: Best Supporting Actress nomination for Main Hoon Na (2004)

National honours

2006: Rajiv Gandhi Award for her achievement in Bollywood⁵

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1996	Dastak	Sushmita Sen
1997	Zor	Aarti
	Ratchagan	Soniya	Tamil film Dubbed into Telugu as Rakshagadu
1999	Sirf Tum	Neha	Nominated, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award
	Hindustan Ki Kasam	Priya
	Biwi No.1	Rupali	Winner, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award
2000	Aaghaaz	Sudha
	Fiza		Guest Appearance (song)
2001	Kyun...Ki Main Jhooth Nahin Bolta	Sonam
	Nayak: The Real Hero		Special Appearance (song)
	Mudhalvan		Tamil film Special Appearance (song)
	Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai	Lara Oberoi
2002	Aankhen	Neha Srivastav
	Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge	Mehak
	Filhaal...	Sia Sheth	Nomination, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award
2003	Samay: When Time Strikes	ACP Malvika Chauhan
	Pran Jaye Par Shaan Na Jaye	Herself	Special Appearance
2004	Vaastu Shastra	Jhilmil Rao
	Main Hoon Na	Chandni
	Paisa Vasool	Baby
2005	Chingaari	Basanti
	Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya?	Naina
	Main Aisa Hi Hoon	Neeti Khanna
	Bewafaa)	Aarti
	Kisna	Naima Begum	Special Appearance (song)
	It Was Raining That Night
2006	Zindaggi Rocks	Kriya
	Alag		Special appearance (song)
2007	Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag	Durga
2009	Dulha Mil Gaya	Lisa DD
	Karma, Confessions and Holi	Meera	English film
	Do Knot Disturb	\Kiran
	Marmayogi	Warrior	Tamil film

See also

• List of Indian film actresses
• Firsts in India

References

External links

• Sushmita Sen at the Internet Movie Database

Preceded by Namrata Shirodkar	Femina Miss India 1994	Succeeded by Manpreet Brar Miss India-Universe
Preceded by Dayanara Torres	Miss Universe 1994	Succeeded by Chelsi Smith

v • d • e Miss Universe titleholders (1994) Miss Universe Sushmita Sen Miss USA Lu Parker Miss Teen USA Shauna Gambill

v • d • e Big Four pageants (1994) Miss Universe Sushmita Sen Miss World Aishwarya Rai Miss Earth - Miss International Christina Lekka

v • d • e Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award 1955-1960 Usha Kiran (1955) · Nirupa Roy (1956) · Vyjayanthimala (1957) · Shyama (1958) · Nalini Jaywant (1959) · Lalita Pawar (1960) 1961-1980 Nanda (1961) · Nirupa Roy (1962) · Shashikala (1963) · Shashikala (1964) · Nirupa Roy (1965) · Padmini (1966) · Simi Garewal (1967) · Jamuna Ramanarao (1968) · Simi Garewal (1969) Tanuja Samarth (1970) · Chaand Usmani (1971) · Farida Jalal (1972) · Zeenat Aman (1973) · Raakhee Gulzar (1974) · Durga Khote (1975) · Nadira (1976) · Kajari (1977) · Asha Sachdev (1978) · Reena Roy (1979) · Helen (1980) 1981-2000 Padmini Kolhapure (1981) · Supriya Pathak (1982) · Supriya Pathak (1983) · Rohini Hattangadi (1984) · Aruna Irani (1985) · Nutan (1986) · no award (1987) · no award (1988) · Sonu Walia (1989) Raakhee Gulzar (1990) · Rohini Hattangadi (1991) · Farida Jalal (1992) · Aruna Irani (1993) · Amrita Singh (1994) · Dimple Kapadia (1995) · Farida Jalal (1996) · Rekha (1997) · Karisma Kapoor (1998) · Rani Mukerji (1999) · Sushmita Sen (2000) 2001-present Jaya Bachchan (2001) · Jaya Bachchan (2002) · Madhuri Dixit (2003) · Jaya Bachchan (2004) · Rani Mukerji (2005) · Ayesha Kapoor (2006) · Konkona Sen Sharma (2007) · Konkona Sen Sharma (2008) · Kangana Ranaut (2009)