Bhumi Pednekar

Birth Date: 18 Jul, 1989, Age (36)

Occupation : Actress

Bhumi Pednekar

Bhumi Pednekar is an Indian film actress. After working as an assistant casting director at Yash Raj Films for six years, Pednekar made her acting debut with the starring role of an overweight bride in the company's 2015 romantic comedy Dum Laga Ke Haisha. Her performance was acclaimed and she was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.

She rose to prominence in 2017 by playing headstrong women in two commercially successful comedy-dramas, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha and Shubh Mangal Saavdhan. The latter earned her a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

After a year of absence from the screen, Pednekar appeared in Shree Narayan Singh's directorial debut Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017), alongside Akshay Kumar, which tells the story of a young woman in rural India who insists on the eradication of open defecation.The film proved to be a major commercial success with earnings of over â‚¹216 crore.

Bhumi will next appear in Zoya Akhtar's segment in the Netflix anthology film Lust Stories, following which she will star opposite Sushant Singh Rajput in Abhishek Chaubey's crime film Sonchiriya, in which she plays a dacoit.

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