Ayesha Kapur

Kapur grew up and resides in Auroville, Puducherry.^[1] Her mother Jacqueline is German, and her father is Punjabi businessman Dilip Kapur, owner of the Hidesign chain of leather goods stores.^[6] She has one brother, Milan, and two half-brothers from her father's first marriage, Akash and Vikas.^[7] She grew up speaking English, German and Tamil, and also speaks Hindi.^[5] Kapur finished her schooling at Deerfield Academy^[2][8] and graduated from Columbia University in 2020.^[9]

Kapur starred in her first major role in Bollywood in the 2005 movie Black, as the young Michelle McNally opposite Rani Mukerji and Amitabh Bachchan. She received praises and critical acclaim for her role.^[10][11] For her role, Kapur won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress (2006) at the 51st Filmfare Awards and she holds the record for the youngest nominee and winner of the award in the female category. Kapur's second movie was Sikandar in 2009 where she played the role of a young Kashmiri Muslim girl, Nasreen opposite the lead Parzan Dastur, with whom she develops a bond and becomes his conscience keeper.^[12][13][14]

Since 2010, Kapur along with her mother Jacqueline, also runs her own brand of accessories, Ayesha Accessories.^{[8][15][2][5]}

• Ayesha Kapur at IMDb
• Ayesha Kapur on Instagram