Bipasha Basu (
Bengali: বিপাশা বসু,
Hindi: बिपाषा बासु) (born 7 January 1979) is an Indian film actress who appears in
Bollywood films and a former model. She was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest for 1996 and is currently one of the mainstream actresses in Bollywood.
Early life
Basu was born in
New Delhi, India, to a
Bengali family. She is the second of three daughters to her parents, the elder being Bidisha, and the younger—Vijayeta. Although she was born in New Delhi, her family later moved to
Kolkata.
According to her, she had come into modeling and acting quite by accident, because initially she had planned to study medicine.
