Kirron Kher

Kirron Kher, born June 14, 1955, is an Indian theatre, film and television actress and a TV talk show host. She was born in Mumbai to Sikh parents, and brought up in Chandigarh, Punjab, where she studied at the Panjab University, Chandigarh. Kirron has a sister and also a brother, who was a painter Amandeep Singh, who passed away in 2003. Kirron Kher made her film debut in 1983 in the Punjabi feature film Aasra Pyar Da and received rave reviews for her performance. She then acted in theatre, with the play Saalgirah from by playwright Feroz Khan, shortly after she hosted three television shows. Starting with Purushkshetra on Zee TV which got her much acclaim for bringing out the discussion of sexuality to the forum for the first time, while highlighting women's issues at the same time, Kiron Kher Today and Jagte Raho with Kiron Kher, before doing Bollywood films. She starred in the Bollywood fil Karan Arjun (1995), followed by the acclaimed film by Shyam Benegal, Sardari Begum (1996), which won her the Special Jury Award at the 1997 National Film Awards. In 2000, she appeared in film director, Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali film Bariwali 1999, to critical acclaim and she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for the film. For her role in the film, Khamosh Pani (2003) she portrayed the plight of a woman abducted during the partition of India, for which she won the Best Actress Award, at Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland. In October 2004 she made a guest appearance along with her husband, in the American TV series ER playing Parminder Nagra's mother, Mrs. Rasgotra, in episode Damaged (Season 11) (2004). To date she has starred in over 20 major Hindi films, she also suggested the title of one of the biggest Hindi films of all time, Dilwale Dilhunia Le Jayenge (1995). In 2003, she changed her name from "Kiron" to "Kirron" due to beliefs in numerology.

Neha Dhupia

Neha Dhupia, born on August 27, 1980, is an Indian model, actress and former Femina Miss India 2002. Neha's father is Commander Pradip Dhupia, who is in the Indian Navy and her mother is called Manpinder. She has an honours degree in History from Mary College, Delhi University. She became famous from the age of 5, when she starred in a drama called Rajdhani and she made her Hindi film debut in Qayamat. She has starred in over 10 Bollywood films, including Chup Chup Ke, Singh is Kinng and Garam Masala. She was crowned Miss India Universe in 2000 and competed at the Miss Universe 2002, in which she finished in the top ten. She has also appeared in music videos. She currently has four films that are due for release.

Parminder Kaur Nagra

Parminder Nagra, born October 5 1975 in Leicester, England, is an actress. She became famous after starring in the film Bend it Like Beckham (2003) and she currently stars in the American medical drama ER. Parminder was the daughter of working class Sikh parents who fell into acting after completing her A-levels when she was approached by her drama teacher to star in a theatre production. For the film Bend it Like Beckham Parminder had to go through intensive futsal training in Brazil. For her performance she was awarded FIFA's Internation Football Personality of the Year, the first woman to be awarded this. In 2002 she was also awarded the Golden Wave Award at the Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema for "best actress" and Movieline Young Hollywood Award for "best breakthrough performance". After Bend it she starred in Miramax's Ella Enchanted, in which she played Arieda a friend of the title character. She was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Leicester in 2007.

Archie Panjabi

Archie Panjabi or Archana Kaur Panjabi is a British Sikh actress born in West London in 1973. She made her breakthrough in East is East (1999) about a mixed-race family with a Pakistani father and white mother, the film was very successful for a low budget film. She has also starred in Bend It Like Beckham (2002) playing Jessi's sister Pinky Bhamra. She has also worked with Angelina Jolie in A mighty Heart (2007). In 2005 she won the Shooting Star Award for her leading role in Yasmin (2004) a film about the muslim community after the 9/11 attacks. She is a university graduate with a degree in Management Studies from Brunel University.

She is very good at accents and has put on accents in most of her films. She has recently acted in the film Traitor (2008) alongside Don Cheadle. She is is a versatile actress and has acted in both comedies like East is East and dramas like Yasmin. She is currently working on more films in Hollywood including House Husbands and Un simple espion. Lets hope she continues to land more brilliant roleas and achieves the recognition she deserves.