Ileana D'Cruz

She made her acting debut in Y. V. S. Chowdary's Telugu romantic action drama *Devadasu* (2006), for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South. She made her Tamil debut in *Kedi* (2006) and later appeared in *Pokiri* (2006), *Rakhi* (2006), *Munna* (2007), *Aata* (2007), Trivikram Srinivas's *Jalsa* (2008), *Kick* (2009), and Shankar's Tamil film *Nanban* (2012). She also reunited with Trivikram Srinivas for the romantic action film *Julayi* (2012).

Her Hindi debut came with Anurag Basu's romantic comedy-drama *Barfi!* (2012), in which she played Shruti Ghosh and received the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut and a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her later Hindi films include Rajkumar Santoshi's *Phata Poster Nikhla Hero* (2013), David Dhawan's *Main Tera Hero* (2014), Dharmendra Suresh Desai's crime thriller *Rustom* (2016), Anees Bazmee's *Mubarakan* (2017), Raj Kumar Gupta's *Raid* (2018), and Kookie Gulati's financial thriller *The Big Bull* (2021). She returned to Telugu cinema with Sreenu Vaitla's *Amar Akbar Anthony* (2018) and later appeared in the social comedy *Unfair & Lovely* (2024) and Shirsha Guha Thakurta's romantic comedy-drama *Do Aur Do Pyaar* (2024).