1. Kiara Advani received wider attention for starring in the romantic drama Kabir Singh and the comedy drama Good Newwz, two of the highest-grossing Hindi films of 2019.
28 Facts About Kiara Advani
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Kiara Advani won the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter.
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Kiara Advani had further commercial success in the 2022 films Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 and Jugjugg Jeeyo.
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Kiara Advani was born 31 July 1991, to Jagdeep Kiara Advani, a Sindhi Hindu businessman and Genevieve Jaffrey, a teacher whose father was originally from Lucknow and whose mother was of Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, and Spanish ancestry.
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Kiara Advani has a younger brother, Mishaal, who is a musician.
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Kiara Advani is related to several celebrities through her maternal family.
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Kiara Advani was educated at Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai.
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Kiara Advani then attended Jai Hind College, Mumbai where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mass communications.
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Kiara Advani stated that it was Salman Khan's suggestion to change her name, as Alia Bhatt was already an established actress.
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Kiara Advani began her acting career with the Hindi ensemble comedy film Fugly.
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Kiara Advani had a supporting role opposite Sushant Singh Rajput, as the real-life character of his wife, hotel manager Sakshi Rawat.
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Kiara Advani expanded to Telugu cinema in 2018, appearing with Mahesh Babu in the action film Bharat Ane Nenu from Koratala Siva, about a student who unexpectedly becomes the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
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Kiara Advani received wider attention later in 2019 for Sandeep Reddy Vanga's romantic drama Kabir Singh, starring Shahid Kapoor.
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Kiara Advani then starred in the comedy Good Newwz alongside Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Diljit Dosanjh, about two couples tryst with in vitro fertilization.
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Kiara Advani won the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Good Newwz.
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Kiara Advani was nominated for Best Actress in a Web Original Film at Filmfare OTT Awards.
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Kiara Advani then played the wife of Akshay Kumar's character in Raghava Lawrence's horror comedy Laxmii, in which Kumar's character gets possessed by a transgender ghost.
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Kiara Advani next featured in the war film Shershaah, based on the life of army officer Vikram Batra, in which she played Batra's girlfriend.
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Kiara Advani received a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.
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Kiara Advani starred alongside an ensemble cast in Jugjugg Jeeyo, a comedy-drama about divorce, in which Varun Dhawan and her played an unhappily married couple.
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Kiara Advani then starred in the comic thriller Govinda Naam Mera, with Vicky Kaushal and Bhumi Pednekar, which released digitally on Disney+ Hotstar.
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Kiara Advani reunited with Kartik Aaryan in Satyaprem Ki Katha, a romantic drama about a troubled marriage.
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Two years later, Advani appeared in the Telugu action film Game Changer, directed by S Shankar and co-starring Ram Charan.
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Raghuvendra Singh of Filmfare finds Kiara Advani to be "charming, vivacious and always full on energy".
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Kiara Advani is an endorser for several brands and products, including Audi, Galaxy Chocolate, Colgate, and Slice.
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In March 2023, Kiara Advani performed at the opening ceremony of the Women's Premier League alongside Kriti Sanon and AP Dhillon.
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Kiara Advani has featured in The Times of India listing of the "Most Desirable Woman", ranking sixth in 2019 and fourth in 2020.
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In 2023, Kiara Advani became the most searched personality on Google in India.