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Biography
Kareena Kapoor Born in Mumbai, India, on September 21, 1980, into the Kapoor film family, Kapoor is the youngest daughter of actors Randhir Kapoor and Babita. Her elder sister Karisma Kapoor, is also an actress. She is the granddaughter of actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor, great-granddaughter of actor Prithviraj Kapoor, and niece of actor Rishi Kapoor. According to Kapoor, the name “Kareena” was derived from the book Anna Karenina, which her mother read while she was pregnant with her. Often informally referred to as Bebo, she is of Punjabi Khatri descent from her father’s side, and on her mother’s side she is Sindhi.

Kapoor attended Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai before progressing to Welham Girls Boarding School in Dehradun. According to Kapoor, she was a good student and received first-class honours in all subjects except mathematics. She began training at an acting institute in Andheri, mentored by Kishore Namit Kapoor, a member of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

She made her debut in J.P. Dutta’s war drama Refugee, alongside Abhishek Bachchan in the year of 2000. In 2001, Kapoor appeared opposite Tusshar Kapoor in the romantic drama Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai, which became one of the highest earners of the year.

During 2002 and 2003, Kapoor experienced a setback in her career. She was in six films—Mujhse Dosti Karoge!, Jeena Sirf Merre Liye, Talaash: The Hunt Begins…, Khushi, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon, and the four-hour war epic LOC Kargil—all of which proved critically and commercially unsuccessful in India.

In 2004 under the direction of Sudhir Mishra, Kapoor portrayed the role of a prostitute in Chameli. She got Filmfare Special Performance Award for that roll.

In 2007, Kapoor received her first Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in Jab We Met, a romantic comedy directed by Imtiaz Ali. She went on to play the lead female role in the thriller Kurbaan (2009), for which she earned critical acclaim, and the drama 3 Idiots (2009), which became the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time.

By June 2010, Kapoor completed filming for Rohit Shetty’s comedy Golmaal 3, the sequel to the 2008 film Golmaal Returns. She was cast as the lead in Anubhav Sinha’s science fiction Ra.One and Sriram Raghavan’s action-thriller Agent Vinod.