Ayesha Kapur

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Ayesha Kapur
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Kapur in 2012
Born
Ayesha Giulia Kapur

(1994-09-13) 13 September 1994 (age 30) [1]
Düsseldorf, Germany
OccupationActress
Years active2005–2009, 2023–present

Ayesha Giulia Kapur (born 13 September 1994) [1] is an Indian-German actress, who is best known from the Bollywood movie Black. [2] [3] [4] Kapur became the recipient of many awards in the "Best Supporting Actress" category. In doing so, she became the second youngest (behind Darsheel Safary) to be both nominated and win a Filmfare Award and is currently the youngest person ever to win a Zee Cine Award and an IIFA Award. [5]

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Personal life

Kapur grew up and resides in Auroville, Puducherry. [1] Her mother Jacqueline is German, and her father is Punjabi businessman Dilip Kapur, owner of the Hidesign chain of leather goods stores. [6] She has one brother, Milan, and two half-brothers from her father's first marriage, Akash and Vikas. [7] She grew up speaking English, German and Tamil, and also speaks Hindi. [5] Kapur finished her schooling at Deerfield Academy [2] [8] and graduated from Columbia University in 2020. [9]

Career

Kapur starred in her first major role in Bollywood in the 2005 movie Black , as the young Michelle McNally opposite Rani Mukerji and Amitabh Bachchan. She received praises and critical acclaim for her role. [10] [11] For her role, Kapur won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress (2006) at the 51st Filmfare Awards and she holds the record for the youngest nominee and winner of the award in the female category. Kapur's second movie was Sikandar in 2009 where she played the role of a young Kashmiri Muslim girl, Nasreen opposite the lead Parzan Dastur, with whom she develops a bond and becomes his conscience keeper. [12] [13] [14]

Since 2010, Kapur along with her mother Jacqueline, also runs her own brand of accessories, Ayesha Accessories. [8] [15] [2] [5]

Filmography

Films

Key
†Denotes films that have not yet been released
YearTitleRoleNotesRef
2005 Black Young Michelle McNallyBollywood Debut
2009 Sikandar Nasreen Banu
TBAHari Ka Om†TBAPre Production [16] [17] [18]

Web series

YearTitleRoleNotesRef
2023 Sweet Kaaram Coffee JuliaTamil [19]

Awards

YearAwardCategoryFilmResultRef.
2006 7th IIFA Awards Best Supporting Actress Black Won [20]
51st Filmfare Awards Best Supporting Actress Won
9th Zee Cine Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Female Won
Bollywood Movie Awards Best Supporting Actress Won
Producers Guild Film Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role Won
Screen Awards Best Child Artist Won
Stardust Awards Exciting New Face of the YearWon

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