Katrina Kaif is a British actress who works in Hindi-language films.
80 Facts About Katrina Kaif
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Katrina Kaif received her first modelling assignment as a teenager and later pursued a career as a fashion model.
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Katrina Kaif participates in stage shows and is involved with her mother's charity Relief Projects India, which works to help underprivileged children.
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Katrina Kaif was born in British Hong Kong with her mother's surname Turquotte, on 16 July 1983.
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Katrina Kaif's father, Mohammed Kaif, is a British businessman of Kashmiri descent and her mother is an English lawyer and charity worker.
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Katrina Kaif has seven siblings: three elder sisters named Stephanie, Christine, and Natasha; three younger sisters named Melissa, Sonia, and Isabel; and an elder brother named Sebastien.
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Katrina Kaif's parents divorced when she was a child, and her father moved to the United States.
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Katrina Kaif said her father had no influence on her or her siblings while they were growing up, and that they were raised by their mother.
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Katrina Kaif was this pretty young English girl, and we gave her the Kashmiri father and thought of calling her Katrina Kazi.
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Katrina Kaif lived in London for three years before moving to India.
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At age14, Katrina Kaif won a beauty contest in Hawaii, and received her first modelling assignment in a jewellery campaign.
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Katrina Kaif subsequently modelled professionally in London, working for freelance agencies and appearing regularly at the London Fashion Week.
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At a fashion show Katrina Kaif attracted the attention of London-based filmmaker Kaizad Gustad.
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Katrina Kaif made her acting debut in Gustad's Hindi-English heist film Boom starring Amitabh Bachchan, Gulshan Grover, Jackie Shroff, Madhu Sapre and Padma Lakshmi.
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Katrina Kaif was noticed as a model after walking the ramp for Rohit Bal at the India Fashion Week and appeared in the first Kingfisher Calendar.
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Katrina Kaif later dismissed Boom as an unimportant part of her career, ascribing her choice to her unawareness of Indian audiences' film taste then.
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Hindustan Times reported that after Boom's release, Katrina Kaif was written off due to her poor Hindi and thick British accent; as a result, filmmakers were hesitant in casting her in their films.
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Katrina Kaif soon began working on her diction through Hindi classes.
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Katrina Kaif received a reported salary of 7.5 million for the film, the highest for a female lead at the time in South Indian cinema; Sify attributed this achievement to her looks and figure.
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In 2005, Katrina Kaif appeared briefly as Abhishek Bachchan's girlfriend in Ram Gopal Varma's political thriller Sarkar.
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Katrina Kaif followed with her second Telugu film, Allari Pidugu, in which she had "very little role to play and shake a leg or two with the hero", according to a critic from The Hindu.
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Katrina Kaif used her life in London as a reference for her role of Jasmeet Malhotra, a spoilt British Indian girl intent on marrying her self-centred British boyfriend despite her parents' disapproval.
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Katrina Kaif had a supporting role as a doctor in the sports drama Apne, a highly anticipated release as it marked the first appearance of Dharmendra with his sons, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol.
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Katrina Kaif played Saif Ali Khan's secretary, who is his stepbrother's lover.
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Up until this point, Katrina Kaif's voice was dubbed over by voice artists in most of her films due to her lack of fluency in Hindi and other Indian languages.
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Katrina Kaif justified choosing these glamorous roles as part of learning without any goal for a certain kind of film.
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Katrina Kaif then appeared in a cameo for India's first underwater thriller Blue.
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Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama praised the actors' energetic pairing and found that Katrina Kaif performed well in both emotional and light scenes.
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Katrina Kaif performed with Akon at the closing ceremony of the 2009 Indian Premier League at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg,.
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In 2010, Katrina Kaif appeared in Prakash Jha's political thriller Raajneeti as part of an ensemble cast which included Ranbir Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Arjun Rampal, Nana Patekar, Manoj Bajpai and Sarah Thompson.
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Katrina Kaif rejected the media's speculation that her character was based on Sonia Gandhi.
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The song was choreographed by the film's director Farah Khan and for the belly dancing portion, Katrina Kaif was trained by expert Veronica D'Souza.
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Katrina Kaif's portrayal was not well received; Renuka Rao of Daily News and Analysis found her "drama queen act" poor but noted that she was exceptional in the item number.
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Katrina Kaif had difficulty filming her scuba diving scene due to her inexperience; she was so scared she dug her nails into costar Roshan.
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Katrina Kaif found herself challenged by the role of Dimple Dixit, whose loquacious and unpredictable nature strongly contrasted with Kaif's personality.
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The film opened to mixed reviews, but Katrina Kaif was generally praised for her portrayal.
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In 2012, Katrina Kaif appeared in "Chikni Chameli", an item number in Agneepath that incorporated dance steps from the Lavani genre.
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Katrina Kaif appeared next in Kabir Khan's espionage thriller Ek Tha Tiger as a Pakistani ISI agent who falls in love with an Indian RAW agent.
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Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express wrote about her performance: "Katrina Kaif is an able, animated foil to Salman, her long legs making her leaps and kicks credible".
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Later in the year, Katrina Kaif was paired with Shah Rukh Khan in Yash Chopra's swan song, the romance Jab Tak Hai Jaan.
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Katrina Kaif later participated and walked the ramp in a fashion show that was held in memory of Chopra.
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Katrina Kaif rejoined Shah Rukh Khan for his 2013 "Temptations Reloaded" concert in Muscat, performing to an audience of over 18,000, and joined Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and Pitbull in Kolkata for the opening ceremony of the 2013 IPL season.
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The film received ambivalent reviews and Katrina Kaif was criticised for taking on an insubstantial part, though Taran Adarsh found her to be "ethereal" and "moving with incredible grace in dance numbers".
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Katrina Kaif played a bank receptionist who is unwittingly caught up with a secret agent.
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Abhishek Kapoor's Fitoor is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations in which Katrina Kaif played a role based on Estella Havisham along with Aditya Roy Kapur and Tabu.
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Katrina Kaif was paired with Sidharth Malhotra in Nitya Mehra's science-fiction romance Baar Baar Dekho.
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Katrina Kaif next acted opposite Ranbir Kapoor in Anurag Basu's comedy-adventure Jagga Jasoos.
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Rachit Gupta wrote that Katrina Kaif compensated for her limited dialogue by convincingly performing the scenes with hand-to-hand combat and gun fights, calling it "invigorating to see a lady kick-ass with so much elan and pull all the punches like they're real".
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Katrina Kaif was initially hesitant about accepting the part of a second female lead but eventually agreed after Khan and Rai insisted.
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In 2019, Katrina Kaif collaborated with Salman Khan and Ali Abbas Zafar in the drama Bharat, an adaptation of the South Korean film Ode to My Father.
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Katrina Kaif replaced Priyanka Chopra in the role of an engineer who falls in love with Khan's character.
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Katrina Kaif rejected media speculation that she accepted the part as a favour for her friend Khan and cited her appreciation of the script.
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An admirer of Shetty's larger-than-life directing style, Katrina Kaif played the wife of Kumar's character.
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Katrina Kaif next played a ghost in the comedy horror film Phone Bhoot, opposite Siddhant Chaturvedi and Ishaan Khatter.
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Katrina Kaif has a close relationship with her family, and the lack of a father figure in her life has given her a sense of responsibility towards them.
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Katrina Kaif is reluctant to discuss her personal life, which has been the subject of media attention in India.
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Katrina Kaif was linked to actor Ranbir Kapoor during the filming of Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani.
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Katrina Kaif married actor Vicky Kaushal on 9December2021 at Six Senses Resort, Fort Barwara in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan.
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Katrina Kaif has garnered praise from The Times of India for maintaining a low-profile about her philanthropic work.
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Katrina Kaif is actively involved with Relief Projects India, a charitable trust run by her mother which works in furthering the cause of underprivileged children, including providing quality education, rehabilitating and educating orphans and working to prevent female infanticide.
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Katrina Kaif donates a sum of her earnings annually to the fund and her winnings from the game shows 10 Ka Dum and Kaun Banega Crorepati were donated to her mother's Mercy Home orphanage.
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Katrina Kaif has donated clothes and personal belongings to raise funds for a prenatal care unit in the Claretian Mercy Home in Madurai.
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Katrina Kaif has been vocal about gender equality, domestic violence and women's empowerment.
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Katrina Kaif has emphasised the role of education in the fight against gender inequality and violence against women.
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In 2010, Katrina Kaif was one of several celebrities who created promotional messages for Pearls Wave Trust, which campaigns against violence and abuse of women and girls.
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Katrina Kaif was invited as one of the speakers at the 2016 WeUnite conference, an event organized by UN Women as part of their Orange the World initiative for gender equality and women's empowerment.
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Katrina Kaif has voiced her support for LGBT rights, and causes associated with cancer and children's education.
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Katrina Kaif visited the Cancer Patients Aid Association to gift cancer survivors and increase public awareness of breast and cervical cancer in 2012.
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In 2018, Katrina Kaif was named ambassador of Educate Girls, a non-profit organisation that promotes and supports girls' education in the remotest and educationally challenged parts of India.
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In 2007, Katrina Kaif joined the efforts of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to curb human trafficking in India.
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Katrina Kaif visited sepoys in Jammu as part of NDTV's reality program Jai Jawan.
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Katrina Kaif walked the ramp for designer Manish Malhotra and the Sachachari Foundation's annual charity fashion show in 2016.
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Katrina Kaif is considered among the most popular and high-profile celebrities in India.
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Alia Waheed of The Guardian wrote that Katrina Kaif "fitted the new trend for a more modern image of the Bollywood heroine" through her Western style.
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Mishra further said Katrina Kaif established herself as one of India's highest-paid actresses by accepting her limitations, emphasising strengths as an artist and making smart choices.
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Katrina Kaif is cited in the media as one of India's most beautiful celebrities, and has ranked highly in polls choosing the most attractive Indian celebrities.
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Katrina Kaif was named The Times of Indias "Most Desirable Woman" in 2010, and was later ranked second from 2011 to 2013.
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In 2019, Katrina Kaif launched her cosmetic brand Kay Beauty in partnership with the Indian e-commerce company Nykaa.
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Katrina Kaif is a celebrity spokesperson for a number of brands including Slice, Nakshatra, Lux, Panasonic, Lakme and L'Oreal.
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Katrina Kaif was included on Forbes list of India's best-known entertainers from 2012 to 2019, peaking at the ninth position in 2013 with an estimated annual income of 652 million.