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Ileana D'Cruz is one of the most attractive actresses down South. Born and brought up in Mumbai, the lissome beauty's rise to the top was meteoric.
Ileana had a cracker of a debut in Tollywood, with 'Devadasudu' (2006), directed by Y.V.S. Chowdhary, opposite newcomer Ram. And her second film, 'Pokiri', turned out to be the biggest blockbuster Telugu Cinema has seen till date.
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Reading books, listening to music and swimming are Ileana's hobbies. |
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| Ileana replaced Mamta Mohandas in M.S. Raju's 'Aata'; Trisha Krishnan replaced her in Nagarjuna's 'Don'. |
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| Ileana has been approached by renowned producer M.S. Raju to do the lead role in his upcoming films, 'Veera' (opposite Allu Arjun) and 'Aata' (opposite Siddharth Narayan). Ileana has also been signed up for Trivikram Srinivas' untitled Pawan Kayan film. |
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| She has bagged a Bollywood film to be directed by Sangeeth Sivan, with Bobby Deol and Nana Patekar in lead roles. The film is remake of the Telugu blockbuster, 'Athadu'. |
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| From the beginning, Ileana has been planning to make it big in Bollywood. She would "like to work with Ranbir Kapoor and Imran Khan". |
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| She acted with Pawan Kalyan in 'Jalsa', one of the top grossers in Telugu this year. She has signed a film opposite Manchu Vishnu Vardhan, tentatively titled, 'Saleem'. |
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| Her debut in Tamil was opposite Ravi Krishna in 'Kedi', which did not do well at the B.O. Ileana has reportedly signed 'Vettaikkaran', opposite Vijay, for a huge amount. |
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| Ileana landed her debut film after director Y.V.S. Chowdhary spotted her in a Fair and Lovely ad film directed by Rakesh Roshan. The film was a success at the box-office. |
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| Her parents named her after Ileana (Helen of Troy) from Greek mythology. Doing justice to the legend of Helen are the Tollywood bigwigs, who fight each other to get Ileana on their title cards! |
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Ileana was born in Mumbai on August 19, 1987, to a Roman Catholic father (Ronaldo Leo) and a Muslim mother (Sameera). She has three sisters and two brothers. |
Recently, Illeana was in the news for rejecting a role in Soundarya Rajnikanth's 'Sultan, the Warrior'.