Biography

Ileana D'Cruz is an Indian film actress, who predominantly appears in South Indian cinema and Bollywood. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South for the 2006 Telugu film Devadasu. In 2012, she made her Bollywood debut with Anurag Basu's critically and commercially successful Barfi! , for which she received critical appreciation and the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. D'Cruz was born to a Goan Catholic family in Mumbai, and raised partly in Mumbai and partly in Goa.