Family members
Father | An engineer |
Mother | A house wife |
Husband | Upendra |
Children | Ayush Upendra, Aishwarya Upendra |
Short biography
Priyanka Upendra was born on 9th November 1977 in Calcutta city, West Bengal state. Her birth name is Priyanka Trivedi. She holds bachelor’s degree in commerce. Priyanka Upendra was crowned Miss Kolkata title in 1996 and started her career as a fashion model. She worked for numerous advertisements like Britannia, Orient Fans, Pillsbury etc. during this period. During her modeling career she was introduced to movie director Basu Chaterjee who offered her lead role in his film ‘Hothat Brishti”.
She started her acting career with Bengali movie Hothat Brishti in 1998 opposite Ferdous Ahmed, the film was a huge commercial hit both in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Her biggest commercial hit Bengali was Saathi in 2002 directed by Haranath Chakraborty. Apart from Bengali films she also worked for Bengali, Hindi, Kannada,Tamil and Telugu films.
She gained popularity in Karnataka after big budget commercial hits like Kotigobba co-starring Vishnuvardhan, Devaraj and Ashish Vidyarthi, H2O co-starring Upendra and Prabhudeva, Malla co-starring V. Ravichandran, Mohan Shankar and Umashree.
During her lengthy career Priyanka Upendra subsequently appeared in numerous commercial hits like Raa co-starring Upendra, Dhamini and Sadhu Kokila, Sangee co-starring Jeet and Ranjit Mullick, Pancharangi co-starring Diganth, Nidhi Subbaiah and Ananth Nag, among other films.
Priyanka Upendra family members’ names and photos
Parents
Her father is an engineer and her mother is a house wife. Their family lived in United States and Singapore for sometime. Her mother is a Bengali and her father is from Uttar Pradesh.
Husband & children [1 son,1 daughter]
Priyanka Upendra is married to Kannada super star Upendra since 14th December 2003 and the couple have two children son named Ayush Upendra and daughter named Aishwarya Upendra. Their family is currently settled in Banashankari III Stage in Bangalore.