Genelia born as Genelia D'Souza on August 5th, 1987 in England is a talented Indian actress and a stunning model.
After her family relocated to Mumbai, Genelia attended Apostolic Carmel High School in Bandra and did her graduation from St. Andrews College, Bandra.
The dusky angel first hit the limelight with a Parker Pen commercial starring along side the great Amitabh Bachchan and further did a Fair and Lovely ad appearing along side the dashing Indian batsman of the eighties, Krishnamachary Srikkanth.
The ace Tamil director, Shankar was very much impressed with her performance in both the ads and cast her in a leading role in his Tamil version of "Boys" in 2003. The sweet sixteen year old Genelia gave a commendable performance in the movie, which became a box- office hit and was also dubbed into Telugu. As even the Telugu version became the biggest hit, Genelia bagged a string of Telugu movies "Satyam" (2003) opposite Sumanth and "Samba" (2004) starring along side Jr. NTR and "Sye" (2004) opposite Nitin. All these movies were runaway successes at box office. The following year she starred in "Naa Alludu" (2005) again with Jr. NTR and "Subhash Chandra Bose" opposite Venkatesh, which were also box office hit movies. Her performance in "Bommarillu" (2006) was critically acclaimed and well appreciated by the audience. The movie became one of the biggest hits. As an actress, Genelia consolidated her position with a strong screen presence combined with beauty and acting talents in Telugu movies. Hopping from Tamil to Telugu and to Hindi this fair-complexioned hot actress has given wonderful performances in a number of super hit movies. She is now awaiting the release of "Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na" (Hindi), "Mr. Madhavi" (Telugu) and "Vaaranam Aayiram" (Tamil) and "Sathya In Love" (Kannada).Her first Hindi film was Tujhe Meri Kasam opposite Ritesh Desmukh. Her second hindi movie was Masti and was also opposite Ritesh. She has also appeared in Mere Baap Pehle Aap. She finally made her breakthrough in Bollywood starring in the youth cult and blockbuster, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na opposite Imran Khan, who is superstar Aamir Khan's nephew. The movie released in July 2008 and did extraordinary business across India and overseas. She was highly acclaimed for her role as Aditi aka "Meow" and her electrifying chemistry with co-star Imran aka "Rats".
