Pallavi Sharda | |
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Born | [1] [2] [3] Perth, Western Australia, Australia | 5 March 1988
Nationality | Australian |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2008–present |
Title | Miss India Australia 2010 |
Parent(s) | Hema Sharda Nalin Sharda |
Pallavi Sharda (born 5 March 1988) is an Australian actress and Bharathanatyam dancer of Indian descent. [4] She won the Miss India Australia beauty pageant in 2010. [5] [6] [7] As an actress she is best known for her role in the Academy Award nominated film Lion (2016). She has also starred in Hindi language films Besharam (2013), Hawaizaada (2015) and Begum Jaan (2017). She starred in the Australian film Save Your Legs! (2012) and the Australian teleseries Les Norton (2019). Since 2021, Sharda has starred in Tom & Jerry and the rom-com Wedding Season.
Sharda was born in an Indian family in Perth, Western Australia [8] to Hema Sharda, and Nalin Kant Sharda. [9] [10] Both her parents are IIT alumni from Bombay and Delhi respectively and have PhDs in science and engineering. [11] They migrated to Australia in the 1980s before she was born. [8] Sharda came to Melbourne as a toddler where she grew up in the outer north-western suburbs. [12] She went to school at Lowther Hall in Essendon where she obtained an academic scholarship [12] and at the age of 16 commenced her LLB and BA (Media & Communications) & Diploma in Modern Languages (French) at the University of Melbourne, graduated with honours at 21. [13] [14] [6]
Pallavi Sharda shifted base from Melbourne to Mumbai in 2008 aged 21 to follow a career in film. [15] [16] [17] [18] [7] Sharda started her Bollywood career by playing a cameo in Karan Johar's My Name Is Khan (2010). In March 2010 at the age of 23 [19] Sharda was crowned Miss India Australia in Sydney. [20] [21] [22] She next starred in the comedic-drama film, Dus Tola (2010) opposite acclaimed actor Manoj Bajpayee, in which she played the role of Geeta, a village dance teacher. Sharda's performance was identified as the best element of the film by The Times of India. [23] In 2011 and 2012 Sharda was the lead actress of the theatrical musical, Taj Express directed by Shruti Merchant and choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant. [24]
Sharda made her Australian film debut with comedy film Save Your Legs , which released on 28 February 2013. [25] She then appeared in Abhinav Kashyap's Bollywood film Besharam . [26] in which she portrayed a woman whose car is stolen by a petty thief. Sharda's next Bollywood venture, Hawaizaada , was released worldwide on 30 January 2015. Directed by Vibhu Puri and co-starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Mithun Chakraborty, the film is inspired by the true events of Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, who is believed to have flown an unmanned aircraft in 1895 Bombay. Sharda received critical acclaim for her portrayal of a courtesan dancer during the British Raj era in Mumbai. [27]
Sharda joined Sony ESPN's team as their new face for the IPL 2016 Indian Premier League (IPL). [28]
Sharda joined Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman in the Hollywood film Lion in 2016. [29] Her next Bollywood film, Begum Jaan, released in April 2017. [30] Sharda received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Gulabo, a sex worker in rural Punjab, at the time of Pakistan's partition from India. [31]
Sharda played a leading role in ABC Australia's medical drama Pulse, her performance awarded her the "Rising Star" award by the Casting Guild of Australia. [32] she played Georgie in the ABC-TV series Les Norton. Pallavi is currently starring in Beecham House , ITV's historical drama series directed by Gurinder Chadha [33] [34] and the ABC-TV comedy Retrograde .
Sharda is working on her first book, currently untitled, that explores her identity struggles as an Indian girl living in Australia. The book was set to be released in 2022. [20]
Sharda is on the board of advisers for e-Kutir, a social entrepreneurship company focused on improving the lives of Indians using the 'base of pyramid' model. Her focus areas are Sanitation and Mother and Child. [35] Sharda is a regular keynote speaker on Asia Literacy in Australia, cross-cultural relations between India and Australia and women's empowerment in India. [36] In 2015 she was appointed the "Queen of Moomba", Melbourne's largest community festival, alongside retired Australian cricketer Shane Warne. [37] Pallavi was named on the list of forty most influential Asian Australians at the inaugural Asian-Australian Leadership Summit. [38]
In 2023, she was appointed to the Screen Australia board. [16]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2010 | My Name Is Khan | Sajida Siddiqi | |
Dus Tola | Geeta | ||
Walkaway | Sia | ||
2011 | The Saviour | Pia | Short film |
Love Breakups Zindagi | Radhika | ||
2012 | Save Your Legs! | Anjali | |
Heroine | Gayatri | ||
2013 | Besharam | Tara Sharma | |
2015 | Hawaizaada | Sitara | |
UnIndian | Shanthi | ||
2016 | Lion | Prama | |
2017 | Begum Jaan | Gulabo | |
2018 | Hotel Mumbai | News Voiceover | Voice role |
Murder | Dr. Parvati Agrawal | TV film | |
2021 | Tom & Jerry: The Movie | Preeta Mehta | |
2022 | Wedding Season | Asha | |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2010 | Comedy Circus Ka Jadoo | Episode: "Uniform Special" | |
2017 | Pulse | Tanya Kalchuri | Series regular, 8 episodes |
2019 | Strike Back | Samira Shah | Episode: "Revolution: Part 3" |
Beecham House | Chandrika | Series regular, 6 episodes | |
Les Norton | Georgie Burman | Mini-series | |
2020 | Retrograde | Maddie | Series regular, 6 episodes |
2021 | The One | Megan Chapman | Series regular, 7 episodes |
2022 | The Twelve | Corrie D'Souza | Mini-series |
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
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2021 | Equity Ensemble Awards | Most Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (with Maria Angelico, Nicholas Boshier, Max Brown, Esther Hannaford & Ilai Swindells) | Retrograde | Won |
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