Priyanka's Biography

Priyanka Chopra was born on 18th July 1982 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India  to the family of Capt. Dr. Ashok Chopra & Dr. Madhu Chopra, both Doctors. She also has a brother. This first born girl child of a large extended family was welcomed like a star. With large twinkling eyes and the most fascinating smile she was a winner.
She had Breast Cancer when she was young and was often called Mimi. Priyanka is very attached to her father. Her father is from Punjab while her mother is from Bihar in north India. She spent part of her childhood in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.Priyanka had a very varied upbringing. Having joined an Army family, she
moved from Leh-ladakh in the north to Kerala in the south from Bombay in the west to Jamshedpur in the East . She imbibed the ethos of the multicultural Indian society. A family favorite she grew up in the warmth & Love offered by her grandparents, aunts & uncles. All of this went into the making of a very warm, loving & confident personality.
She studied at La Martiniere Girls' College in Lucknow, as a young girl and later came to the United States, where she was a student at Newton North High School, in Newton, Massachusetts and John F. Kennedy High School (Cedar Rapids) in Iowa before returning to India to complete high school at Army Public School (Bareilly). She began college at Jai Hind College in Mumbai but left after winning the Miss World pageant. Priyanka's Father is also a very good singer.