Priyanka Chopra Jonas Biography, Age, Height, Weight, Husband, Family, Wiki & More

Priyanka Chopra did her school education from  Newton North High School, Massachusetts and later she attended Army Public School, Bareilly. She pursued her graduation from  Jai Hind College Mumbai as well as Basant Singh Institute of Science in Mumbai, but she had to leave her studies in the middle due to modelling. At the age of 13, Chopra went to the United States to study, while she was living with her aunt. In her teenage years, Priyanka had to face many problems while living in America. Mainly she had to face racism about her colour.

 

 In America, she was the second winner of the Femina Miss India contest and entered the Miss India World title where she was crowned Miss World. She became the fifth Indian to receive this honour. After winning this title she started getting many offers from the film industry to make her debut. Despite all in the year 2002, she made her debut with the Tamil language film Thamizhan.

In 2003, she made her debut in the Bollywood Films through the Raj Kanwar directed film Andaz starring Akshay Kumar and Lara Dutta. For that film, she won the Filmfare Award for the Best Female Debut as well as the screen Awards for Most Promising Newcomer-Female. In 2004 she played a negative role in the film Aitabar which was highly praised. 

 

Priyanka has proved herself to be Bollywood's top actress since 2006 as her two films, 2006 and Krrish and Don, were financially the most successful movie of that time. Later, her 2008 film Fashion changed her career completely. She was on the list of top heroines of Bollywood. Even though for the film fashion she was awarded by the National Film Award for Best Actress for Fashion in 2008. In the subsequent time, she appeared in some of the successful and hit films such as Ra. One, Don 2, Agneepath, 7 Khoon Maaf, Barfi!, Mary Kom and Bajirao Mastani.Both of these were declared as the hot films at the box office and though she became the highest paid actress of the Bollywood. In the year 2015, she got a chance to work in the Quantico (television drama thriller American series) in the role of female lead in both the season of the series.

 

For her brilliant acting in this Tv series, she won the People's Choice Awards for Favorite Actress In A New TV Series in 2016 as well as for Favorite Dramatic TV Actress in 2017.