Kangana Ranaut ; born 23 March 1987) is an Indian film actress. She has
established a successful career in Bollywood, and is the recipient of a
National Film Award and two Filmfare Awards.Born in Bhambla, a small
town in Himachal Pradesh, Ranaut initially aspired to become a doctor at
the insistence of her parents. Adamant to build her own career path,
she relocated to Delhi at age sixteen, where she briefly became a model.
After training under the theatre director Arvind Gaur, Ranaut made her
feature film debut in the 2006 thriller Gangster, for which she was
awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She received praise
for portraying emotionally intense characters in the dramas Woh Lamhe
(2006), Life in a... Metro (2007) and Fashion (2008). For the last of
these, she won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and a
Filmfare Award in the same category. Ranaut featured in the
commercially successful films Raaz: The Mystery Continues (2009) and
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010), though she was criticised for being
typecast in neurotic roles. A comic role opposite R. Madhavan in the
2011 box office hit Tanu Weds Manu was well-received, though this was
followed by a series of brief, glamorous roles in films that failed to
propel her career forward. She then played a mutant opposite Hrithik
Roshan in the science fiction film Krrish 3 (2013), one of the
highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time, and established herself as
a leading actress of Hindi cinema by playing the protagonist of the
comedy-drama Queen (2014)