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Daisy Shah
File:Daisy.Shah.promotingJAIHO.nachbaliyepromotion.jpg
Shah promoting Jai Ho on the sets on Nach Baliye 6.
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NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Actress, Model, Dancer, Choreographer

Daisy Shah (Template:Lang-gu; born 25 August 1979, in Mumbai) is an Indian film actress, model and dancer/choreographer.[2][3][4]

Shah made her acting debut as a special appearance guest in the 2010 bilingual action thriller Vandae Maatharam, but her first breakthrough came when she was roped to play the lead role in the 2011 Kannada film Bodyguard, opposite Jaggesh. She then appeared opposite Salman Khan in the 2014 Bollywood film Jai Ho.[5]

Early life

Daisy Shah was born on 25 August 1989 in Mumbai, in a Gujarati family. Her father worked as a floor manager in a clothing mill in Dombivli. She has won the Miss Photogenic title in the Ms Dombivli contest in a local mall when she was in 10th grade. She is an BA graduate from Mumbai's Khalsa College. A model and choreographer turned actress, Shah has various Tamil and Kannada films to her credit.

Career

She has worked as an assistant to choreographer Ganesh Acharya for 3 years.[6] She started off doing item numbers in films like Vandae Maatharam before she got a break in the Kannada Film Industry, where she played the female lead opposite actor Jaggesh in the bilingual hit film Bodyguard. Later she appeared in Kannada films like Bhadra and Gajendra while also appearing as an Item girl in Bachchan and Bloody Isshq, before getting a big break to play Salman Khan's ladylove in Sohail Khan's Jai Ho, a remake of the Telugu film Stalin.

Filmography

Year Film Role Language Notes
2010 Vandae Maatharam Malayalam / Tamil Special Appearance
2011 Bodyguard Ammu Kannada
2011 Bhadra Kavya Kannada
2013 Gajendra Kannada
2013 Bloody Isshq Hindi Special Appearance
2013 Bachchan Bujji Kannada Special Appearance
2014 Jai Ho Rinky Shah Hindi

References