Ileana D'Cruz
Born: 1987-11-01 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ileana D'Cruz (born 1 November 1986) is an Indian actress and model who works predominantly in Telugu and Hindi cinema, as well as Tamil films. She began her career through print modeling and television commercials before moving into acting. 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).
Filmography
2024
- Do Aur Do Pyaar as Nora
- Tera Kya Hoga Lovely as Lovely
2021
- The Big Bull as Meera Rao
2019
- Pagalpanti as Sanjana
2018
- Raid as Malini Patnayak
- Amar Akbar Anthony as Aishwarya / Pooja
2017
- The Drama Company as Self
- Baadshaho as Rani Gitanjali Devi
- Mubarakan as Sweety
2016
- The Kapil Sharma Show as Self
- Rustom as Cynthia Rustom Pavri
2015
- Kick 2 as Naina
2014
- Main Tera Hero as Sunaina Jasvir Kaur
- Happy Ending as Aanchal Reddy
2013
- Comedy Nights with Kapil as Self
- Phata Poster Nikhla Hero as Kajal
2012
- Barfi! as Shruti Ghosh Sengupta
- Julayi as Madhu
- Nanban as Ria Santhanam
- Devudu Chesina Manushulu as Ileana
2011
- Shakti as Aishwarya Mahadevaraya
- Nenu Naa Rakshasi as Meenakshi
2010
2008
- Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah as Self
- Jalsa as Bhagyamathi
- Bhale Dongalu as Jyothi