Taapsee Pannu is an Indian actress and model who predominantly works in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Hindi films. She is one of the few South Indian actresses who had 7 releases in a year (2011). In 2018, she played the role of Harpreet opposite Diljit Dosanjh in the biopic of a famous international hockey player- Sandeep Singh, ‘Soorma’, which brought her further fame in Bollywood.
| Sl.no | Biography | |
| 1. | Full Name | Taapsee Pannu |
| 2. | nicknames | Maggi |
| 3. | profession | actress model |
| 4. | fame | ‘Soorma, Baby’ Movie |
| 5. | nationality | Indian |
| 6. | Religion | Jat Sikh |
| 7. | Zodiac | Virgo |
| 8. | car collection | BMW car |
Taapsee Pannu Birth, Family, and Education
Taapsee Pannu is a 35-year-old Indian actress who was born on 1 August 1987 in New Delhi to a highly educated family in India. She spent her childhood in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She has been given many names like ‘ Maggie ‘, ‘Glam-doll’ and ‘Goddess of Flop Heroes ‘. She was a good student in her studies and wanted to get that high-level education in mathematics. She completed her schooling at Mata Jai Kaur Public School, Ashok Vihar, Delhi, and later graduated with B.Tech in Computer Science from Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
She used to concentrate on her studies during her school days and never thought of becoming an actress. She used to participate in anchoring and every co-curricular activity during her school days but was never inspired to become an actress. Since her college days, she started participating in modeling competitions and after that, she started modeling through various advertisements to manage her daily extra expenses.
Taapsee Pannu Body Measurements
Taapsee Pannu is a pretty girl who has a normal height of 5′ 4″ inches and weighs around 55 kg. She looks quite fit and slim despite crossing 30. She has brown eyes and black hair. She follows a strict diet plan and exercises regularly to make her body fit and healthy.
Taapsee Pannu Family, and Ethnicity
Taapsee Pannu hails from a ‘Jatt-Sikh’ family following Sikhism. Her father’s name is Dilmohan Singh Pannu. And mother’s name is Nirmaljit Pannu. She has a younger sister Shagun Pannu, whom Taapsee plans to launch in films.
Taapsee Pannu Boyfriend
She is unmarried but she was in a relationship with Tamil actor Mahat Raghavendra and after that, she got into a relationship with Danish badminton player- Mathias Bo but due to some unknown reasons she broke up with him.
Taapsee Pannu Career
Taapsee started her career as a model. While preparing for the MBA entrance exam, she applied for a reality show pageant ‘Get Gorgeous’ on Channel V and soon got selected. She also participated in the ‘Miss India 2008’ pageant where she won the titles- ‘Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Face’ and ‘Safi Femina Miss Beautiful Skin’. In 2008, she worked in several print shoots and TVC commercials.
She has walked the ramp several times for leading brands like Reliance Trends, Red FM 93.5, Uni Style Image, Coca-Cola, Motorola, Pantaloons, PVR Cinemas, Standard Chartered Bank, Dabur, Airtel, Tata Docomo, World Gold Council, Havells, Vardhman Seen.
To earn more name and fame, she quit modeling and started acting in 2010. She made her acting debut in 2010 with the Telugu film ‘Jhumandi Naadam’.
After that the same year, she made her debut in the Tamil film industry with the film ‘Aaduklam’, which was critically acclaimed by the audience and was also a huge commercial success.
In 2011, she also acted in the Malayalam film ‘Doubles’.
In 2012, she entered Bollywood with the film ‘Chashme Baddoor’ and after that, she appeared in ‘ Baby’, ‘Pink’, ‘Running Shaadi’, ‘Dil Juunglee’, ‘Nitishastra’, ‘Soorma’, ‘Judwaa 2 ‘, ‘ Worked in many Hindi films like. Soorma ‘, ‘ Judwaa 2′ and released.
For the movie ‘Baby’, she wanted to do all the work herself so that she could take a martial arts class for her.
She shared a screen with Amitabh Bachchan in the film ‘ Pink ‘. While shooting for the court scenes, she suffered from a viral infection and decided that she would prefer her voice to be dubbed, but later, Shoojit Sircar asked Taapsee to do the same herself; Because it added more authenticity to the scenes.
In 2018, her role as ‘Harpreet’ in the Bollywood film ‘Soorma’ was critically acclaimed by the audience.
She won many awards and accolades for her performance works in films. Some of her popular winning awards are- Santosham Film Awards, South Africa India Film and Television Awards, Edison Awards, Lux Golden Rose Award, Jagran Film Festival, Zeems of India Online Awards, Zee Cine Awards, Hindustan Times (HT) Most Stylish Award, JioSpa AsiaSPA Awards, Streaming Rewards and many more.
Taapsee Pannu Controversy
In 2012, after the Filmfare Awards in Chennai, rumors began that Tallpesi was the reason behind a fight between Kollywood actor Mahat Raghavendra and Tollywood actor Manchu Manoj at a party.
Taapsee Pannu Favorite Dishes
Danish Pastries, Chinese Cuisines, Parathas, Chol Puris, Kachoris, Chocolate Pudding, and Papri Chaat.
Taapsee Pannu Favourite Celebs
She is a huge fan of many celebrities like Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Suriya, Ranbir Kapoor, Prabha, Priyanka Chopra, and Priyamani.
Taapsee Pannu Facts
- She likes to spend her holidays in Europe and Maldives.
- In Bollywood she loves ‘ Rockstar ‘ and in Hollywood, her all time favorite movie is ‘ The Twilight Series ‘.
- She likes ‘Dhikayan’ from the movie ‘Chashme Baddoor’.
- Her favorite cartoon character is Powerpuff Girls.
- Taapsee Pannu likes to play squash for at least half an hour every day.
- During her second year in college, she took the CAT exam to pursue MBA and scored 88% but didn’t get the admission where she wanted.
- After completing her graduation, she started working as a software engineer and developed an app- FontSwap.
- She was fond of dancing since her childhood and learned Bharatnatyam from her fourth grade from the famous Birju Maharaj for 8 years and also won many inter-college dance competitions.
- She has worked with many South-Indian flop heroes and as a result, she is popularly known as ‘Devi of Flop Heroes’.
- She has appeared on magazine cover pages and continues to be the popular face of magazines such as ‘Just for Women’ and ‘Masters9MAAstars’.
- Apart from being a successful actress, she is also a very good squash player.
- She is also an entrepreneur who co-owns ‘The Wedding Factory’ (an event company that organizes weddings and many more).
- She would like to go on a date with Ranbir Kapoor.
- She has a BMW car.
- She has got a tattoo done on her left leg.
- She wants to marry a person who is not from the film industry.
