Showing all artists born in 1970

A beauty queen and a former model Kashmira Shah is a well known face in the industry. She has become a household name after she was seen in the reality shows like Bigg Boss and Desi Girl. She is acting on the big screen and performing on stage for more than eight years. Kashmira also knows as Kash is well recognized for her roles in movies like 'Jungle' and 'Yes Boss'. She proved her excellent dancing skills in the films like 'Aankhen' and 'Vaastav'.

The dusky beauty was born on 2nd December 1970 in Mumbai. Renowned classical singer Anjanibai Lolekar was her grandmother. She is a half Maharashtrian and half Gujarati. The dancing Diva is a winner of many beauty pageants like Miss India talent winner and Miss University. Kashmira has won the best supporting actress nomination for her performance in 'Jungle'.

Kashmira has proven her acting skills in many theatre plays. She is a well established theatre artist too. Recently, she played a lead role in the film 'Revati'. The film is about a rag picker. Her performance in this film was just mesmerizing. She was also seen in 'My Bollywood Bride'. Kashmira wrote the screenplay for this movie and played a key role as well. The talented actress is all set to appear in two more Hollywood movies. Kashmira has a knack to involve herself successfully in every project. She was ranked he Top 35 All Time Actresses in India and she has been promoted as the Worlds Most Exotic Woman too.

Kashmira is an alumnus of Jai Hind College, Mumbai. She was in a relationship with Brad Listermann till 2007. Currently she is in a relationship with the famous stand -up comedian Krishna Abhishek.

Some of the films in which Kashmira made appearances are 'Hera Pheri','Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha' ,'Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye', 'Aashiq','Murder','Janasheen','Wake Up Sid' and many others.

Danny Sapani is an English actor of Ghanaian descent.

He was born in London, one of six children of immigrant Ghanaian parents. He was raised in Hackney, and first pursued his interest in acting at the Weekend Arts College in Kentish Town. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

He appeared in Danny Boyle's film Trance. Stage credits include August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Radio Golf, and Errol John's Caribbean classic Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. He has also acted in the 2013 Indian action thriller film, Singam II.

His most notable TV roles include appearances on Misfits and Blackout, while his television guest appearances include Judge John Deed and the Doctor Who episode "A Good Man Goes to War".

Chetan is a Tamil television and film actor.


He is the husband of television actress Devadarshini who starred with him in Vidadhu Karuppu. This was part of the television series Marmadesam, and it brought Chetan into the limelight.


He also had regular roles in television serials such as Ananda Bhavan and Metti Oli.


He stated in an interview, 'I joined as a sales representative after completing my graduation in business management. But I was interested in films, hence I joined as assistant director to director K Shankar. Meanwhile Minbimbangal unit was planning to produce 'Marmadesam' serial for Sun TV. I sent my bio-data to the company as I was interested in acting. I was fortunately selected for the 'Karuppu' role, which is the most crucial character in the serial. This was my first teleserial'.


He is married to actress Devadarshini who is his co-star in many serials. They have a daughter.

Nakhat Khan better known by her stage name Kushboo and now know as Kushboo Sundar is an Indian actress, television hostess and producer.

Khushboo was born and raised in a Muslim family in Andheri (West), Mumbai. She had her primary education in Swami Muktananda High School located in Andheri area. She has three brothers. Her brother Abdullah is expected to make his debut in the movie industry, playing the lead role in the movie Netru pol inru illai.  She is married to director Sundar C. She later converted to Hinduism. Kushboo speaks Hindi, Tamil and Marathi fluently.

Khushboo started her career in the 1980s as a child artist. Her first movie appearance was Thodisi Bewafaii (1980) where she had an uncredited role. She had her first credited role in the 1981 film Laawaris. Since then, she has acted in over 100 movies, some opposite leading actors like Rajnikanth, Kamal Hassan, Mammootty, Mohanlal, Sathyaraj, and Prabhu. She played the role of the sister of Anil Kapoor in the 80s hit Meri Jung, and danced with Javed Jaffrey in his first dancing role on screen in the superhit song "Bol Baby Bol, Mere Sang Dol".

Kushboo was introduced to South India through the Telugu movie Kaliyuga Pandavulu Opp Venkatesh, under the direction of K Raghavendra Rao.She is known for her TV show Jackpot and her serials Kalki, Janani and Kungumam.Apart from Tamil movies, she has also acted in various movies in Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam.In Kannada, She has acted in many movies with Ravichandran notably Ranadheera (1987), Anjada Gandu, Kaliyuga Pandavulu, Shanthi Kranthi and Yugapurusha.

In 2005, there was a well-publicized controversy about her remarks in an interview for AIDS awareness, about the need for protective sex: she said it was fine for girls to have pre-marital sex — but not without taking precautions to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Later, she added that no educated man should expect his wife or girlfriend to be a virgin. Two political parties lashed out at her because of her remarks: the Dalit Panthers of India and the Pattali Makkal Katchi. She was ordered to court and her counsel offered to withdraw the previously issued anticipatory bail petition. The judge acceded and dismissed the petition as withdrawn. The Supreme Court dismissed all cases registered against South Indian film actress and activist Khusboo for her alleged remarks on pre-marital sex.

Kushboos fans built a temple dedicated to her at Tiruchirapalli, but protesters razed it following her controversial comments in 2005 about pre-marital sex and AIDS.Khusboo made a statement in April 2010 that she would be entering into politics soon before the 2011 assembly elections and later joined the DMK, by signing her membership form at the party headquarters in Chennai.Khushboo is married to actor-director Sundar C, and she converted to Hinduism after they got married.They have two daughters named Avanthika and Ananditha, after whom they have named their production house. She has been living in Chennai for the past twenty years. 

Premsai is an Indian film director and former actor. As an actor, he was acclaimed for playing many different prominent roles in Tamil and Telugu television serials and tele films. Later he ventured in to Direction. Currently directing his debut film Tamilselvanum Thaniyar Anjalum staring Jai,Santhanam,Yami Gautam in tamil and Courier Boy Kalyan in telugu with Nitin (actor) & Yami Gautam Produced by Gautham Menon.


Premsai was born on 29 September in Chennai. He started his media career in the year 1998 first he ventured into acting in Serials and tele films in tamil and telugu. He was introduced by AVM Productions in a teleserial by legendary director S. P. Muthuraman he featured in a single episode in that serial. He was choosy in selecting scripts which helped him work with the best of technicians such as Balu Mahendra,K. Balachander, A.C.Trilokchander,S.P.Muthuraman,Revathy, Venkat and Ramesh Raja 


Premsai moved from acting and ventured into direction to explore his creative abilities into writing and direction. He directed his first telefilm \\\"Manasa Vaacha Karma\\\" with Venu Arvind in the lead which got him a very good Recognition and Director Prabhu Deva noticed and he went on to assist him in films as associate director in the film Shankar dada Zindabad with mega star Chiranjeevi in the lead.



He later worked as a co-director & dialogue writer for Prabhu deva in Engeyum Kadhal staring Jayam Ravi and Hansika Motwani in the lead.Currently directing his debut film Tamilselvanum Thaniyar Anjalum staring Jai,Santhanam,Yami Gautam in tamil and Courier Boy Kalyan in telugu with Nitin (actor) & Yami Gautam Produced by Gautham Menon

Vaiyapuri, born Ramakrishnan, is a Tamil film actor who mostly plays a comedian. He has appeared in many Tamil films and is also a guest judge on Asathapovathu Yaaru on Sun TV in Chennai. Vaiyapuri was born in Theni. He started his career in Balu Mahendra Film "Raman Abdulla" with the servant role and has scored most in the first film. Though he has acted many films and he has been mostly remembered for films with Kamal Hasan.

Biju Menon made his debut in the film Puthran and went on to star in over 100 Malayalam films as supporting hero, second lead, villain and sometimes as hero. His notable films include Kannezhuthi Pottum Thottu (1999),Madhuranombarakattu (2000), Meghamalhar (2001), Shivam (2002), Marykkundoru Kunjaadu (2010),Seniors (2011), Spanish Masala (2011), Ordinary,Mayamohini (2012), Vellimoonga (2014). Biju Menon did TV serials before entering films. He has won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Second Actor twice. He is married to actor Samyukta Varma and they have a son named Daksh Dharmik.

Padma Parvati Lakshmi is an Indian-born American cookbook author, actress, model and television host. Her debut cookbook Easy Exotic won her the "Best First Book" award at the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. She has been the host of the US reality television program Top Chef since season two in 2006, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program. In 2010, Top Chef won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program.

Padma Lakshmi was born in Chennai, India into an Iyer Brahmin family. Her father was a Pfizer executive, and her mother, Vijaya, the first wife of her father,[8] was a nurse who specialized in suicide prevention. Her mother tongue is Tamil. She grew up shuttling between her grandparents in Chennai and her mother in New York. She is her parents' only child from this marriage. Her parents separated when she was age one. They divorced a year later. Both parents later remarried,and Lakshmi has a younger paternal half-brother and half-sister. The latter formerly worked as an actress and classical dancer but is now pursuing a career with children with special needs. In an interview in The Guardian. Lakshmi said, "My father had quit his job as an executive at Pfizer to manage her career. That was kind of like rubbing salt in the wound. I didn't understand why he wanted that relationship with her, and not with me."

In 1984, when she was 14 years old, Lakshmi was hospitalized for two weeks, eventually diagnosed with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, which is caused by hypersensitivity to an infection or certain kinds of medications. Two days after discharge from the hospital, she was in a car accident in Malibu, California, causing an injury to her right arm that required surgery, which left a 7-inch scar between her elbow and shoulder. The accident also left Lakshmi with a fractured right hip and a shattered upper right arm.

Lakshmi graduated from Workman High School, in the City of Industry, California. She is a 1992 graduate of Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she received a BA, with Honors, in Theatre Arts.

She speaks English, Tamil, Hindi, Italian and Spanish.

Lakshmi's career began at age 18, when during a study trip in her college years she was discovered by a modeling agent in Madrid, Spain while sitting in a café. As she has stated, "I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I'm the first one to admit that I was a novelty." Lakshmi managed to pay off her college loans while working as a model and actress.

She has modeled for top designers such as Emanuel Ungaro, Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, Ralph Lauren, and Alberta Ferretti and appeared in ad campaigns for Roberto Cavalli and Versus. She was a favorite model of the photographer Helmut Newton, whose photographs of her often highlighted the large scar on her right arm.

Lakshmi appeared on the covers of RedBook, Vogue India, FHM, Cosmopolitan, L'Officiel India, Asian Woman, Avenue, Industry Magazine, Marie Claire (India Edition), Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country and Newsweek. Lakshmi also posed nude for the May 2009 issue of Allure magazine.

Her first cookbook Easy Exotic, a compilation of international recipes, was awarded Best First Book at the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards at Versailles. She was host of the Food Network series Padma's Passport, which was part of the larger series Melting Pot in 2001, where Lakshmi cooked primarily vegetarian cuisines. She also hosted two one-hour specials on South India and Spain for the British culinary tourism show Planet Food, broadcast on the Food Network in the U.S. and internationally on the Discovery Channels. Her second cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet, was released October 2, 2007.

Lakshmi's first role was in an Italian murder mystery Il figlio di Sandokan and her subsequent role in Caraibi (Pirates: Blood Brothers), a costume drama about 17th-century pirates got Lakshmi hooked on acting in 1999. She had a comical supporting role as the lip synching disco singer Sylk in the 2001 American movie Glitter with Mariah Carey. She starred in the 2003 film Boom as Shiela Bardez, one of a trio of super models accused of stealing diamonds. She played the role of Geeta in Paul Mayeda Berges' 2005 film The Mistress of Spices.

Lakshmi served as hostess of Domenica In, Italy's top-rated television show in 1997.[8] She made a 2002 guest appearance as alien princess Kaitaama in "Precious Cargo", the 37th episode of the science fiction TV series Star Trek: Enterprise. Lakshmi portrayed Sean Bean's nemesis Madhuvanthi in the 2004–2005 TV series Sharpe's Challenge. In 2006, Lakshmi appeared in ABC's TV series The Ten Commandments with Dougray Scott, Naveen Andrews, and Omar Sharif. She serves as lead host and judge on the television show Top Chef, joining in 2006 during its second season, and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program as co-host in 2007. Lakshmi was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program in 2009 for Top Chef. The show won the Emmy for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program in 2010.

Lakshmi has expressed a desire to work in Tamil films in future, and stated she would love to meet Kamal Haasan.

Lakshmi made a guest appearance on the show 30 Rock in 2009, and recently appeared on Whose Line Is It Anyway? in 2014.

In 2009, Lakshmi starred in the Eels video for the song "That Look You Give That Guy" playing the love interest of Mark Oliver Everett.

Combining her culinary and fashion style tastes, Lakshmi launched her first line of jewelry in 2009. Titled "Padma", the first collection consisted of forty pieces.

On April 17, 2004, in New York City, Lakshmi married the novelist Salman Rushdie, twenty-three years her senior, to whom she was introduced at a party in 1999 hosted by the journalist and editor Tina Brown. On July 2, 2007, the couple filed for divorce. She is the model for one of the central characters and love interests in Rushdie's novel Fury (a novel dedicated to her as well).

Although professing little interest in fashion, Lakshmi has written articles on style for the American edition of Vogue magazine, at Anna Wintour's request, and writes her own column on style in Harper's Bazaar, following a commission from Editor Glenda Bailey.

Lakshmi was brought up as a vegetarian and has admitted that because of this, she sometimes becomes "squeamish" when sampling other cultural delicacies. In 2009, she starred in a television advertisement for the Carl's Jr. restaurant chain eating a Western Bacon Cheeseburger, and in her second cookbook Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet she credits the chain with bringing her away from vegetarianism during her teenage years.

Lakshmi dated Princess Diana's ex, financier Theodore 'Teddy' Forstmann until his death in November 2011. He left an undisclosed sum of money in a trust fund for her daughter, Krishna.

On October 1, 2009, after years of struggling with endometriosis, a condition that causes pelvic pain and has been associated with infertility, Lakshmi confirmed that she was pregnant. Lakshmi also co-founded The Endometriosis Foundation of America, which is a nonprofit organization focused on increasing awareness, education, research, and legislative advocacy against the disease. On February 20, 2010, Lakshmi gave birth to a baby girl named Krishna Thea Lakshmi. Although the father's identity was not initially given, it was later revealed to be venture capitalist Adam Dell. In January 2011, Dell sued Lakshmi for sole custody of their daughter. They reached an agreement in March 2012, settling out of court, with Dell being granted increased custody and visitation rights and their daughter's full name changed to Krishna Thea Lakshmi-Dell.Padma is now a speaker and fundraiser at the MIT center for Gynepathology research

M. Rajesh is a Tamil film director and screenwriter, working primarily in the Tamil film industry based in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu and Known for making full-length comedy entertainers, he made his directorial debut with Siva Manasula Sakthi in 2009 and followed it up with Boss Engira Bhaskaran (2010) and Oru Kal Oru Kannadi (2012), all three of which emerged very successful at the box office.

Nathan Jones  is an Australian actor, powerlifting champion, strongman, and professional wrestler. Jones has held the WWA World Heavyweight Championship once during his stint in World Wrestling All-Stars.


Before his career as a wrestler, Jones was sentenced to 16 years in 1987 at the age of 18 to Boggo Road Gaol for eight armed robberies between 1985–1987, two of which occurred in Tasmania. During the robberies, he became one of Australia's most wanted and ended up serving seven years in a maximum-security prison, in 1994 Jones was given one year work release, before being discharged at the age of 25. While in prison, he was introduced to the sport of powerlifting. Within a short space of time, he became the National Powerlifting Champion of Australia.


Upon his release, Jones also began competing in strongman contests and during this time, he was dubbed "The Megaman" for his imposing physique, 208 cm (6’ 10") tall and 159 kg (355 pounds/25 stone). As the reigning Australia's Strongest Man, he entered the World Strength Championship at Callander, Scotland on 29–30 July 1995. He took first place, topping a field that included 1993 World's Strongest Man Gary Taylor. The following weekend, he competed in the World Muscle Power Classic held at Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. That contest was won by Magnús Ver Magnússon, with Nathan finishing fifth in a field of twelve competitors.


Jones next took part in the 1995 World's Strongest Man contest. After quickly defeating Phil Martin twice in the arm wrestling event in the qualifying heat, Jones was then matched against Magnus Samuelsson, who had been Europe's arm wrestling champion for several years and who would become the World's Strongest Man in 1998. Samuelsson won the first round. In the second round Jones refused to go down and pulled with his opposite arm, twisting his body. This resulted in breaking the arm he was using to wrestle, and he subsequently was out of the competition. Jones returned to Strongman competition in 1996 winning the World Strongman Challenge, and placed third in a World's Strongest Man qualifying heat behind Magnús Ver Magnússon and Jorma Ojanaho.



He also participated in a mixed martial arts match at KRS-Pride's debut event Pride 1 in October 1997, submitting to Japanese professional wrestler and former sumo wrestler Koji Kitao in his only match.