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Dia Mirza Profile |
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Birth Date: December 9, 1981
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Birth Place: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Birth Name: Diya Mirza Handrich
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Dia Mirza is an Indian model and Actress and Miss Asia
Pacific for the year 2000. She was also second runner up in
the Miss India 2000 beauty contest.
Her father Frank Handrich was a German interior designer and
her mother is Deepa Mirza, a Bengali. They separated when
she was six years old. Her father died when she was nine and
her mother remarried: Ahmed Mirza whose surname she took,
died in 2004.
She stated that she suffered from "low self-esteem" as a
child. She retained a Muslim name (Mirza). When living in
Khairatabad, Hyderabad, she attended Vidyaranya High School
For Boys And Girls, a school based on the teachings of Jiddu
Krishnamurti, and later Nasr School, in Kushnuma.
Currently, she lives in Bandra, Mumbai. To brush up on
acting before Shootout at Lokhandwala, she took a one week
course of Film at New York University
Mirza's car was seized in 2006 for alleged evasion of custom
duties. In that same year, she and fellow-actor Aamir Khan
publicly expressed support for the Narmada Bachao Andolan, a
group protesting the building of a dam. This aroused the ire
of political activists from the Bharatiya Janata Party, who
led a protest march against the actress.
She was previously dating Endorsement Manager Bunty Sachdev
(also known as Amit Sajdeh), after that she was linked with
Actor Kunal Kapoor and then with Director Apporva Lakhia
which also broke up two years back. |
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Won the Miss Asia-Pacific contest in 2000 and is considered
one of the most beautiful actresses in Indian cinema.
Born to a German father and a Bengali mother
Titles: Miss Beautiful Smile, The Sony Viewers Choice Award.
Her interests other than acting are reading, writing, and
music.
Indian Supermodel. |
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since November 21, 2008