Birth Name: Lara Dutta
DOB: 16 April, 1978
Status: Lara Dutta is dating Dino Morea. She has dated Kelly Dorjee inthe past and has been linked to Bobby Deol and Abhishek Bachchan.
Debut movie: Andaaz in 2003
Famous pairing: With Salman Khan in Partner in 2007
Marriages: None
Most remembered for: her quick wit, her performance and glamorous clothesin Jhoom Barabar Jhoom in 2007.
Litigations involved: None
Jail Term Served: None
Biography:Lara Dutta is a beauty with brains who hails from Bangalore.She won the Miss Universe title in 2000. She made her Bollywood debut in Andaazwith fellow beauty queen Priyanka and hunky Akshay Kumar. There have beenseveral reports of a rivalry between her and Priyanka, but they have bothdenied them. In the year 2000, while Priyanka won Miss World and Lara won MissUniverse, Dia mirza won Miss Asia Pacific, making it a hat-trick for India.
On the personal front, Lara was dating fellow model Kelly Dorjee foreight years and living in with him. But they split up last year for reasonsbest known to them and now Lara is dating Dino Morea, her friend since 15 yearsand Dino and Kelly have stopped talking becasue of her.
Lara is quite a fashion icon and has appeared on several magazine coverslike Elle and Cosmopolitan. The 5'9 beauty loves shoes and was an athlete duringher school days and she has 50 pairs of sports shoes.
Lara is known for her intelligence and quick wit and she has the highestscore in Miss Universe history in the question answer round. She also appearedwith Katrina Kaif on Koffe with Karan and her rapid Fire round left everyone insplits. She says she is the epitome of glamour and can even make ajeans-tee-with-sneakres look glamourous. Surprisingly, Lara cannot swim andduring the shoot of Andaaz, Akshay Kumar saved her from drowning. She call hima real life khiladi and hero.
Career wise Lara has not been as lucky as Priyanka but she made it biglast year with Jhoom barabar Jhoom, though the movie flopped, her performancewas appreciated. Her other big release in 2007 was Partner with Salman Khan,Govinda and Katrina Kaif. Her work in Zinda with Sanjay Dutt was particularlygood and she carried off bold scenes with class and elan. Lara has done itemnumbers, the most popular being Aisa Jaadu Dala Re from Khakee. One of thebiggest hits of her career in No entry in 2003, where she played Anil Kapoor's wife. The film also starredFardeen Khan, Salman Khan and Bipasha Basu, among others. She also starred inKaal with Vivek Oberoi, John Abraham and Esha Deol. Her future projects includethe Ashtavinayak film Blue with Sanjay Dutt and she has lost weight for themovie as she will sport a bikini in the film.
Favourites
Actor: SRK
Actress: sridevi
Causes Associated with: Lara is the UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and wasassociated with 'Missing' to prevent female infanticide. She also did an MTVdocumentary on human trafficking and is associated with spreading awarenessabout HIV/AIDS.
Endorsements:
D Damas diamond Jewellery
Pantene shampoo
