Priyanka Chopra



Priyanka Chopra (pronunciation: / , born July 18, 1982 is a Bollywood film actress and Miss World 2000.
Priyanka was born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India to Ashok and Madhu Chopra nee Akhauri, both doctors. While her father is of Punjabi heritage, her mother is a Bihari (Kayastha). She spent part of her childhood in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. Her family frequently moved since her father was in the Army. She studied at La Martiniere Girls' College in Lucknow, as a young girl and later came to the United States, where she was a student at Newton North High School, in Newton, Massachusetts and John F. Kennedy High School (Cedar Rapids) in Iowa before returning to India to complete high school at Army Public School (Bareilly). She began college at Jai Hind College in Mumbai but left after winning the Miss World pageant. She is Hindu by religion.