Showing all artists born at Mumbai

Meenakshi Dixit (born 12 October), is an Indian model, dancer and actress. She has appeared in various Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films.


Meenakshi Dixit was born 12 October in Raebareli, India. She is the daughter of Ishwar Chandra Dixit, a senior lawyer, and Geeta Dixit. She graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Botany, Zoology, and Chemistry.[citation needed] She has trained in Kathak and western dance. She was active in sports, especially in athletics.


In 2008 Meenakshi Dixit appeared as a contestant in NDTV Imagine's dance reality show Nachle Ve with Saroj Khan hosted by Saroj Khan, which led to her entry to the Indian film industry. She first appeared in a Telugu film, Lifestyle. Later on, she got into modelling, endorsing local and international brands such as Joyalukkas Jewelry, Microsoft Windows, Fair and Handsome cream, Chennai Silks, Shankaram diamond jewellery, Brook Bond Taza tea, Paaneri Sarees, Lee Cooper, Red Square Energy Drink, Radio Mirchi and ESSAR, and Anytime Fitness gym. She has also been a regular model for the fashion industry, as well as in prominent Indian magazines.


In 2011, she made a special appearance in a dance number in Dookudu, the year's highest grossing Telugu film.Following Dookudu, she was also chosen by the producers of the Bodyguard remake to do a dance number, hoping that it would repeat the success of her number in Dookudu. She also performed an item number in the Tamil film Billa II, considered to be one of her biggest project to be done yet. 2014 she was seen in lead roles in two films. She essayed the role of a princess in the Tamil period-comedy Tenaliraman  while the thriller-drama Adavi Kachina Vennela saw her playing an aspiring sharp shooter, with the actress also performing stunts in the film. She will be making her Hindi debut with P Se PM Tak in which she plays a call girl.

Ankitha (Ankitha Jhaveri) is an Indian actress, who has worked in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada film industries.She is big fan of actress Soundarya.  Ankita got married to a Mumbai based businessman in March 2016.

Ankitha is a former child actor in the prestigious advertising campaign for juice drink product Rasna in the 1980s in India on national TV and was known as the "Rasna baby" as a child actor.  Her breakthrough in films came through Simhadri starring NTR Jr, The film was the highest grossing action comedy at the box office in 2003. In 2005, she appeared in back-to-back Tamil films directed by Sundar C, featuring alongside Prashanth in London and then in Thaka Thimi Tha with newcomer Yuvakrishna. She moved to Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA extension in a Media & Entertainment Studies program while simultaneously working in Development at Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment as well as producer Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment.

Her first break in American Television came on 3 February 2013 when Ankita Jhaveri's GoDaddy Commercial aired during the XLVII Super Bowl. Ankitha recently starred in a short film directed by Chicago-based Indian director Pradeep Paga alongside actor Aalok Mehta (of 'American Chai' fame) titled 'Waiting'.

Adah Sharma is a Bollywood actress and model. Adal hails from Kerala's Palakkad district. She was born on May 11, 1989. She got her first break in the film '1920' by Vikram Bhatt in 2008. Her role was of a possessed victim in the film. The movie was superhit on box-office. The B-Town film critic Taran Adarsh showered praise on Adah for her performance in the film '1920', in words like "Adah gets the meatier part and she takes to it like a fish takes to water. She's excellent!". The gorgeous model also acted in another Hindi flick named as 'Phir' in 2011.

The versatile artist also endorsed some famous brands. Adah was the popular face of Limca and Parachute hair oil. She also performed an ad for Nokia with Sharman Joshi. The actress appeared with Katrina Kaif in Olay White Natural ad and with R. Madhavan in the advertisement of Joyalukkas Jewellery.

Talking about Adah's family background; her mother Sheila Sharma is a dancer and her father, Narasimhan Sharma is a merchant navy captain. Adah did her schooling from a Auxilium Convent High School in Pali Hill, Mumbai. The Kerala beauty is a gymnast and presently pursuing her Kathak graduation from Gopi Krishna's Dance Academy. The multi-faceted actress could recite the Bhagwad Gita, when she was three years old.

Two Telugu films of Adah Sharma are slated to release in this year titled 'Courier Boy Kalyan' and 'Lover'.

Poonam Bajwa (born: Poonam Amarjeet Singh Bajwa) is an Indian actress, who predominantly appears in Tamil and Telugu language films. A Punjabi by birth, she made her acting debut in the 2005 Telugu film Modati Cinema, following which she appeared in several noted Telugu films, including Boss opposite superstar Nagarjuna and Bhaskar's Parugu.

She debuted in Tamil in 2008 with the Hari-directed masala film Seval and subsequently starred in Thenavattu, Kacheri Arambam, both co-starring Jeeva, and Drohi.

Most of her films are successful.  She usually plays the role of a second heroine in most of her films.

The beautiful actress from the film 'Luv ka The End', Shraddha Kapoor is a daughter of famous actor from the Bollywood Shakti Kapoor. Her mother's name is Shivangi Kapoor. Born in a celebrity family, she is versatile actress Padmini Kolhapure's niece too.

Shraddha had a keen interest in acting since her childhood. She finished her schooling from 'Jamnabai Narsee School' which is located in Juhu, Mumbai. Later she enrolled herself in the Boston University for taking theatre lessons but after one year only, she left her studies to pursue a career in acting.

Sharddha made her acting debut in the year of 2010 with the big stars like Amitabh Bachchan,R. Madhavan and Raima Sen in the film 'Teen Patti'. The film could not do well at the box office and so her performance in the film got unnoticed.

She got a real fame through her dashing role in her next film 'Luv ka the end'. Though the film was average at the box office but Shraddha got noticed by her role of 'quirky and determined Rhea' in that film. She also got the positive reviews for her good performance in that film. In her real life too, she is determined to build a strong career in acting here in the tinsel town.

Currently,she has taken two new projects as 'Aashiqui 2' and 'Gori Tere Pyar Mein'.

Sonia Mann is a south Indian actress who acts mainly in telugu films

Nausheen Ali Sardar is a famous model and actress. She became a household name after she appeared in a TV serial on Sony TV named Kkusum. Nausheen was brought up in a Catholic society and went to Catholic school. She then went to Sindhi College. She got a bachelors degree in commerce from MMK College in Mumbai. After finishing her school, Nausheen did modeling for two years.

She was seen in Altaf Raja's song 'Pehle To Kabhi Kabhi Gum Tha'. Nausheen has hosted Star best seller's X-zone. She has appeared in many Pakistani films and TV serials like Kuch Dil Se. After Kkusum, Nausheen was seen in Imagine TV's serial Beend Banoongaa Ghodi Chadhunga as the protagonist's mother. She has featured in Sony Television's reality show Mr. And Mrs. TV and Sahara Samay's reality show Arranged Marriage.

Besides TV, Nausheen started her career in Bollywood in 2009 with the film 'Three. She was also seen in 'Do Dilon Ke Khel Mein' and 'Purple Lake'.

Gaelyn Mendonca is the bundle of talent, with exceptional communication skills and remarkable dancing prowess. Born on November 5, 1988 at Mumbai, she went to St. Joseph School and further attended St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She holds the prestige of winning Street Dance Competition for five consecutive years at Malhar fest, held by the college.

Gaelyn marched in glamour world, right in college days, where she walked the ramp for 'Lakme Fashion Week'. Soon after her college, she anchored 'Cool Quotient' show on NDTV Good Times. Later, this ambitious beauty participated in MTV VJ hunt, her well-versed communication skills got her enlisted. Since then, she has been MTV bandwagon. She has hosted numerous shows for MTV like 'Ultimate DJ Championship', 'House of Style', 'Gone in 60 Seconds', 'One Short Plot', 'Pepsi MTV Wassup', 'Tic Tac MTV College Beat' and 'Axe MTV Grind'. Gaelyn has also hosted the Cricket World Cup 2011.

While Gaelyn was still a VJ at MTV, her outlandish charm caught the attention of filmmakers. She was signed by Rohan Sippy for his movie, 'Nautanki Saala!', opposite Ayushman Khurana. This Mendonca girl is free-spirited and is kindling her steps in B-Town. She can certainly be the next big thing in Bollywood.

Ragasiya , born on 25 September 1988 is an Indian actress, runway model, and theater artist.



Ragasiya's father is Tilakkumar Kshirsagar who owns his own publication company Rupali Arts. Her mother is a house wife trained in parlor course. Her sister Rekha works as a senior executive for the newspaper Dainik Bhaskar and her younger sister Rupali is a fashion designer. Ragasiya completed her college graduate and her diploma in Interior Design and Decoration at the L S Raheja School of Architecture.



Ragasiya is trained in various dance styles. She learnt kathak from Guru Viru Maharaj and later from Habiba and Saroj Khan. She then learnt hip-hop under Ganesh Hegde and was trained in salsa by Sandeep Soparkar.



She started her career as an assistant choreographer to Pony Verma, Longie Fernandes, Raju Khan and later she started doing theaters with Gary Richardson for Mad Horses. She started her modelling career by doing catalogue shoot for "roopam" owned by Viren Shah, walked on ramp for Nisha Jhampwal, Umer Zafer. Also she walked as show stopper for Nisha Jhampwal, Sidney Sladen for global warming at le meredien, Sanjana Jones for C.I.F.W. She has been cover face for magazine "Grahalaxmi" for a year, and cover page for Women Era and Saheli magazine.



She was offered a film role by Tamil director Sundar C. but she declined as she was studying then. She made her debut as LEAD ACTRESS in bollywood movie of EROS ent. called Journey Bombay to Goa opposite famous comedian Raju Shrivastav.She made her film debut in an guest appearance special song in the Tamil film Vasool Raja MBBS by Saran who also rechristened her as Ragasiya. After that she did many promotional item numbers mostly in Tamil films. She has also played supporting roles in films like Indira Vizha  and Velmurugan Borewells.



She has performed in a few Punjabi music videos "Gori Gori Veeni", "Chubare Wali Baari" and "Billo Ni Tere Nakhre Ne" as well as in a Hungarian music video "Hullámzó sivatag" by Krisz Rudi.

Manjari Phadnis is the glittering Indian film actress, who has gained popularity through Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada and Tamil language films. She is well-known for her girl-next-door image seen in movies likes Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and Love Kal Parso. She is the brand ambassador for CMR exclusive and Chandana Brothers in Andhra Pradesh. She also models for Motilal Perls and Jewellery Stores in A.S.Rao Nagar, Secunderabad. 


Manjari Phadnis was born was born on 10 July, 1988 in Mumbai. She made her bollywood debut with 2004 movie "Rok Sako To Rok Lo". But, she received fame and applauses for the movie "Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na", ehich also earned her "Stardust Award" for Breakthrough Performance. In September 2009, she signed to appear in a series of Onida television commercials.