1. Isha Koppikar was born on 19 September 1976 and is an Indian actress, politician and model who has acted mainly in Hindi films, but in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Marathi films.
20 Facts About Isha Koppikar
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Isha Koppikar started her career in South Indian languages films in the second half of the 1990s and focused on Bollywood films in the early 2000s.
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Isha Koppikar graduated in Life Sciences at Ramnarain Ruia College in Mumbai.
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Isha Koppikar competed in the 1995 Miss India contest, winning the Miss Talent Crown.
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In 1999, Koppikar starred in Nenjinile starring Vijay and directed by S A Chandrasekhar.
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In 2000, Isha Koppikar started her Bollywood career with a small role alongside Karisma Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan in Khalid Mohamed's Fiza and an item number appearance in Prakash Jha's Rahul.
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In 2002, Koppikar appeared in an item number in Ram Gopal Verma's underworld movie Company starring Ajay Devgan, Vivek Oberoi and Manisha Koirala.
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Isha Koppikar won the Stardust Award for the Most Exciting New Face for her Khallas number.
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Isha Koppikar made a cameo appearance in Kunal Kohli's Hum Tum with Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji.
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Isha Koppikar starred in Ram Gopal Varma's gangster flick D: Underworld Badhshah alongside Randeep Hooda and Chunky Pandey.
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Isha Koppikar's performance was praised but the film only had a limited release and failed to make an impact at the box office.
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Isha Koppikar made her digital debut with the ALTBalaji web series titled Fixerr where she plays the role of sub-inspector Jayanti Javdekar, who lives in a modest house with her young son and husband.
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Isha Koppikar acted in the thriller web series Suranga with Rakesh Bedi and Fredy Daruwala, co-produced by Kaushik Izardar and others.
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Isha Koppikar, who is returning to Tamil cinema after two decades, will be seen playing an assassin in Sivakarthikeyan's science-fiction film Ayalaan.
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Isha Koppikar joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Union minister Nitin Gadkari.
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Isha Koppikar has been appointed as the working president of the BJP's women transport wing.
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Isha Koppikar served as a judge in the Miss Universe 2008 contest, held on 14 July in Vietnam alongside, amongst others, fashion designer Roberto Cavalli and former winner in 2004 Jennifer Hawkins.
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Isha Koppikar continues to model for fashion designers Anita Dongre and Pria Kataria Puri.
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Isha Koppikar is a spokesperson for the animal rights organisation PETA and received the 10th Anniversary Humanitarian Award in December 2009.
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Isha Koppikar married Timmy Narang, a businessman, on 29 November 2009 and has a daughter.