KAREENA KAPOOR "BEBO" PROFILE | BOLLYWOOD ACTRESS BIODATA ~ CELEBRITY STATUS

Name              : Kareena Kapoor
Nickname       : Bebo
Birth Date      : September 21st, 1980
Birth Place     : Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Height             : 5' 5" [1.65 m]
Sex                  : Female
Nationality     : Indian
Hair Color      : Black
Eye Color       : Light Brown
Zodiac Sign    : Virgo
Sexual Orientation : Straight
Profession      : Actress and Model
Father             : Randhir Kapoor [former bollywood superstar]
Mother           : Babita nee Shivdasani [former bollywood actress]
Siblings           : Older Sister Karisma Kapoor [bollywood actress]
Grandfather : Raj Kapoor [former bollywood actor]
Education       : Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumba; Welham Girls Boarding School in Dehradun; Mithibai College, Vile Parle, Mumbai; Government's Law College in Churchgate, Mumbai; Harvard University [crash course in microcomputers]; Kishore Namit Kapoor's Acting Institute, Mumbai
Relationships : Shahid Kapoor [bollywood actor], Saif Ali Khan [bollywood actor]
Spouse : married to Saif Ali Khan on 2012
Debut Film     : Refugee [2000]
Claim to Fame : Chameli [2004]
Major Credits : Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham [2001], Dev [2004], Omkara [2006], Jab We Met [2007]
Favorite Films : Awaara [1951], Sangam [1964], Kal Aaj Aur Kal [1971], Bobby [1973]
Favorite Actress : Babita Kapoor, Nargis Dutt
Favorite Actor : Raj Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, and Abhishek Bachchan
Favorite Sports : Swimming, horse-riding
Favorite Pastime : Reading Sidney Sheldon; cooking and eating; and making friends

Kareena Kapoor who was born in 1980 to actor-couple Randhir Kapoor and Babita hails from a family of actors of four generations: from Prithviraj Kapoor to Raj Kapoor to Randhir Kapoor and right down to her and her sister. Kareena Kapoor too was born to become an actress and rightly so she dreamt of a career in acting since she was a child. Kareena studied at Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai, and later studied at Welham Girls Boarding School in Dehradun in UP. She joined Mithibai College for her commerce studies but soon dropped out after two years to pursue microcomputers and information technology at Harvard. Since her heart lay in Bollywood, Kareena left the course after three months and entered Bollywood to make her dreams a reality. Kareena Kapoor took the first obvious step to learn some basics in acting and joined Kishore Namit Kapoor's Acting Institute. Kareena first signed Hrithik Roshan's "Kaho Na Pyar Hai". After some days into shooting she dropped out of the project.

Kareena Kapoor began her acting career with "Refugee" in 2000 starring debutant Abhishek Bachchan. Kareena Kapoor gave a matured performance and proved that she is a born actress. Critics heaped praises on her. A renowned film critic in India noted her performance and said, "What surprises you is the ease with which she emote the most difficult of scenes". Refugee" became the biggest grosser of the year and Kareena won her first Filmfare Award. The following year Kareena Kapoor received two Filmfare nominations for her performance in "Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham" and "Asoka" {both 2001 releases}.

After being fed up of being typecast, the hot Bollywood actress has decided to take up more mature and challenging roles. Kareena Kapoor's remarkable performance as a streetwalker in "Chameli" {2003} has been critically hailed and film pundits compared her performance in "Chameli" to that of legendary Bollywood actresses: Nargis in "Mother India" {1957}, Meena Kumari in "Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam" {1962} and Shabana Azmi in "Arth" {1982}. Kareena Kapoor won Filmfare Special Award for "Chameli".

The hot talented actress Kareena Kapoor once again showed her versatility in "Dev" {2004} and "Omkara" {2006} for which she won two Filmfare Critics Awards. This sexy Bollywood actress has also won another Filmfare Award for her zestful performance in "Jab We Met" {2008}. Besides Filmfare, this cute Bollywood actress has won numerous other awards. Kareena Kapoor who loves to experiment with roles has proved that she has no limits to her versatility. Kareena did a dance number in Shahrukh Khan starrer "Don" {2006} and proved that she can also dance on par with Helen, the great Bollywood vamp of yesteryears.

This sexy Bollywood actress has earlier dated upcoming Bollywood actor, Shahid Kapoor since 2004 and broke up with him in 2007. Kareena and Shahid Kapoor were involved in a lip-lock kissing scene on a roadside that was caught on cell phone cameras and was released on the net and further sent as MMS to numerous mobile phones. Soon after breaking up with Shahid, Kareena Kapoor began dating Saif Ali Khan. Kareena and Saif Ali Khan were seen together at several public places and major events. They both appeared together at the 53rd Annual Filmfare Awards held in 2008.

The sexy Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor has topped the list of Rediff's "Top Bollywood Female Stars" for four consecutive years in 2004-2008. Kareena has also topped the Rediff's lists of "Bollywood's Most Beautiful Actresses", "Bollywood's Hottest Heroines", "Bollywood's Best Dressed Women" and "Women of Many Faces". UK based "Eastern Eye" magazine ranked her at #8 on their list of "Asia's Sexiest Women" in 2007.

Such is her popularity that today there are millions of web pages with Hot & Sexy Kareena Kapoor Pictures and kareena Kapoor Wallpapers.