Sonakshi Sinha

Sonakshi Sinha (born 2 June 1987) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. After working as a costume designer for independent films, she made her acting debut portraying Rajjo Pandey in the action film Dabangg in 2010, which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She rose to prominence for playing the romantic interest of the male protagonists in several action films, including Rowdy Rathore (2012), Son of Sardaar (2012), Dabangg 2 (2012), and Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty (2014), and for appearing in a variety of item numbers.

Sinha garnered critical acclaim for her playing a troubled woman suffering from tuberculosis in the period drama Lootera (2013), for which she earned several accolades, including a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.  She has since starred in several commercially unsuccessful film, with the exception of Mission Mangal (2019) in which she had a supporting role.

Aside from acting, Sinha has ventured into singing, beginning with a song in her film Tevar (2015). Her debut single, “Aaj Mood Ishqholic Hai” was released in 2015, and she has sung in a total of four films, which include “Rafta Rafta Medley”, featured in the soundtrack of Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se (2018).

Early life

Sinha was born on 2 June 1987 in Patna, Bihar,  to film actors Shatrughan Sinha and Poonam Sinha (née Chandiramani). Her father belongs to a Bihari Kayastha family while her mother hails from a Sindhi Hindu family.  Her father served as a Member of Parliament of the Bharatiya Janata Party,  before he switched to the Indian National Congress in 2019. Sinha is the youngest of three children – she has two (twin) brothers, Luv Sinha and Kush Sinha. She did her schooling at Arya Vidya Mandir and later graduated in fashion designing from Premlila Vithaldas Polytechnic of Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Dabangg	Rajjo Pandey
2012	Rowdy Rathore	Paro
	Joker	Diva
	OMG – Oh My God	Herself	Special appearance in song “Go Go Govinda”
	Son of Sardaar	Sukhmeet Kaur Sandhu
	Dabangg 2	Rajjo Pandey
2013	Himmatwala	Herself	Special appearance in song “Thank God It’s Friday”
	Lootera	Pakhi Roy Chaudhary
	Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara	Jasmine Sheikh
	Boss	Herself	Special appearance in songs “Party All Night” and “Har Kisi Ko”
	Bullett Raja	Mitali
	R… Rajkumar	Chanda
2014	Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty	Saiba Thapar
	Action Jackson	Kushi
	Lingaa	Mani Bharathi	Tamil film
2015	Tevar	Radhika Mishra
	All Is Well	Herself	Special appearance in song “Nachan Farrate”
2016	Akira	Akira
	Force 2	Kamaljit Kaur
2017	Noor	Noor Roy Chaudhary	Also playback singer of song “Move Your Lakk”
	Ittefaq	Maya
2018	Welcome to New York	Jinal Patel
	Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi	Harpreet
	Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se	Herself	Special appearance in song ‘Rafta Rafta’
2019	Total Dhamaal	Herself	Special appearance in song ‘Mungda’
	Kalank	Satya Chaudhry
	Khandaani Shafakhana	Babita “Baby” Bedi
	Mission Mangal	Eka Gandhi
	Laal Kaptaan	Noor Bai
	Dabangg 3	Rajjo Pandey
2020	Ghoomketu	Herself	Special appearance
2021	Bhuj: The Pride of India	Sunderben Jetha Madharparya	Released On Disney+ Hotstar
2022	Kakuda	TBA	Completed
	Double XL	Saira Khanna	Completed

Television

Discography

Awards and nominations