Daisy Bopanna is an India

India

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n actress in Bollywood

Bollywood

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 and Kannada films. She also had acted in Tamil

Tamil language

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, Telugu

Telugu language

Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...

 and Malayalam language films. She has worked with actors like Kamal Hassan in Rama Shama Bama, Upendra

Upendra

Upendra is a cine actor, director, script writer and singer. Born in a middle class family at Koteshwara near Kundapura, he belongs to Kannada speaking Kota Brahmin community. Upendra started his career off with famous director Kashinath as a writer and an assistant director...

 in Aishwarya

Aishwarya

Aishwarya or Aiswarya may refer to:* Aishwarya, A very popular name in India* Aishwarya Dhanush, daughter of Rajinikanth and wife of Indian film actor Dhanush* Aishwarya Majmudar , singer from Ahmedabad, India* Aishwarya Rai Aishwarya or Aiswarya may refer to:* Aishwarya, A very popular name in...

, Mammootty

Mammootty

Mammootty is an Indian film actor and producer who works mainly in Malayalam cinema. He has also acted in a few Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada films. During a career spanning more than three decades, he has acted in more than 360 films, and is only next to Prem Nazir in the number of lead roles...

 in Prajapathi and Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar is an Indian film actor, producer and martial artist who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films. When he began his acting career in the 1990s, he primarily starred in action films and was particularly known for his appearances in feature films commonly called the "Khiladi series",...

 in Garam Masala

Garam masala

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Personal

Bopanna's family hails from Kodagu

Kodagu

Kodagu , also known by its anglicised former name of Coorg, is an administrative district in Karnataka, India. It occupies an area of in the Western Ghats of southwestern Karnataka. As of 2001, the population was 548,561, 13.74% of which resided in the district's urban centres, making it the least...

 (also known by its Anglicised former name of Coorg). Born on 4 December 1980, Daisy did her schooling from Aurobindo School, pre-university at Kumarans College and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Fine Arts

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 degree from Chitrakala Parishat in Bangalore

Bangalore

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, Karnataka

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On 28 May 2011, she married Amit Jaju (son of Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 2000. She is often referred to by the nickname "Piggy Chops", which was given to her by co-stars on the set of the film...

's secretary Prakash Jaju) in Indore

Indore

Indore is one of the major city in India, the largest city and commercial center of the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. Indore is located 190 km west of the state capital Bhopal. According to the 2011 Indian census, Indore city has a population of 1,960,631...

, Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

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. Her husband is a senior manager in the fraud and investigations department of an advisory firm.

Career

Being academically proficient and coming from an intellectual and highly educated family, Daisy was interested in pursuing a career in advertising as a copywriter. But the call of the entertainment industry proved too strong and she put on hold her intellectual ambitions and opted to work in front of the camera.

She started with theater, working for a short time with B. Jayasri’s Spandana theatre camp and also contemporary English theatre with Preetam Koilpillai, and never looked back. Her first movie Bimba (The Image) was sent to the prestigious Berlin & Frankfurt Film Festival, winning international awards. The movie, directed by Kavitha Lankesh

Kavitha Lankesh

Kavitha Lankesh is a renowned filmmaker and director in the Kannada cinema industry.Lankesh is the younger daughter of well known Kannada writer and journalist P. Lankesh. Kavitha holds a Masters in English Literature from the Bangalore University and a diploma in advertising.Kavitha started her...

, explored the exploitation of child artistes in the film industry. Her later work in Bhagavan with Darshan

Darshan

or Darshan is a Sanskrit term meaning "sight" , vision, apparition, or glimpse. It is most commonly used for "visions of the divine" in Hindu worship, e.g. of a deity , or a very holy person or artifact...

 earned her the tag of "Spicy Daisy".

She starred in more than 150 regional ads before being cast in the Priyadarshan movie Garam Masala. She has also starred in several Tamil and Telugu films, opposite leading stars like Kamal Hassan, Ravi Teja, Ganesh, etc. Her first ad film was with veteran add film maker Rajiv Menon

Rajiv Menon

Rajiv Menon is an Indian cinematographer and film maker. He is known for directing critically acclaimed Tamil films like Minsaara Kanavu and Kandukondain Kandukondain.-Early Life:...

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Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2004	Bimba	Saroja	Kannada	Debut Kannada film
	Bhagavan		Kannada
2005	Garam Masala	Deepti	Hindi Hindi Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...	Debut Hindi film
	Rama Shama Bhama Rama Shama Bhama Rama Shama Bhama is a Kannada film directed by Ramesh Arvind and produced by K Manju. Kamal Haasan played a supporting character of the male protagonist while Urvashi played the female lead. The film was released on 9 December 2005...	Priya	Kannada
2006	Jackpot	Special appearance	Kannada
	Aishwarya Aishwarya (film) Aishwarya is a Kannada movie starring Superstar Upendra, Deepika Padukone and Daisy Bopanna, and directed by Indrajit Lankesh. The film featured Upendra as a rich add executive and changed his mass image into a classy one....		Kannada
	Thavarina Siri		Kannada
2007	Satyavan Savitri		Kannada
2008	Gaalipata Gaalipata Gaalipata is a Kannada-language film directed by Yograj Bhat of Mungaru Male fame. The film has a star cast of three heroes and three heroines. Ganesh is in the lead role along with Diganth and singer Rajesh Krishnan. The three heroines are Daisy Bopanna, Neetu and Bhavana Rao. Southern film...	Sowmya	Kannada
	Chakkara Viyugam Chakkara Viyugam Chakkara Viyugam: The Battle of The Brains is a drama Tamil film starring Nataraj of Naalai fame, Raaghav, Jayasurya and Daisy Bopanna. It is directed by Udayabanu Maheshwaran. A trailer was released in January 2008 and the film released in April 2008.-External links:**...		Tamil Tamil language Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...	Debut Tamil film
2009	Sweet Heart		Telugu Telugu language Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...	Debut Telugu film
	Volave Jeevana Lekkachara!	Special appearance	Kannada
2010	Kantri Mogudu		Telugu
2011	United Six	Jia	Hindi
	Mass		Kannada	Under production
	Maaya		Kannada	Under production

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