Taapsee Pannu

Taapsee Pannu (born 1 August 1987) is an Indian Film actress known for her works in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi languages.

Taapsee worked as a software professional and pursued a career in modelling before becoming an actress. During her modelling career, she appeared in a number of commercials.

Taapsee made her acting debut with the 2010 Telugu film Jhummandi Naadam, directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. Since then, she has appeared in a number of critically acclaimed films such as Aadukalam, Vastadu Naa Raju and Mr. Perfect. Her Tamil film Aadukalam won six National Film Awards at the 58th National Film Awards. She has also worked in a Malayalam film and has been signed on for three Telugu films and several Hindi films. She was awarded Most Enthusiastic Performer-Female Award at the 2014 Edison Awards for her performance in the Tamil film Arrambam (2013). Taapsee went on to star in several commercially successful films including Pink (2016), Badla (2019) and Game Over (2019), and received critical acclaim for her performances in Naam Shabana (2017), Mulk (2018), Manmarziyaan (2018) and Saand Ki Aankh (2019). Her biggest commercial successes came when she portrayed the character of an aspiring piano player in the comedy Judwaa 2 (2017) and a space scientist in the science fiction film Mission Mangal (2019), both of which rank among the highest-grossing Bollywood films.