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Genelia D'Souza (Born in Mumbai, India) is a young actress in India. She is a Christian by birth .Her parents originally hail from Goa and later moved to Mumbai. She has acted over a dozen films in South Indian Cinema.


Career

Genelia studied at Apostolic Carmel High School in Bandra, a suburb in Mumbai. After school, she joined the St. Andrews College, Bandra to pursue a Bachelor's Degree. Mumbai-based Genelia starred in the big budgeted Boys by top director Shankar. She starred opposite fellow débutante Siddharth.

She left Kollywood for a while to concentrate on the Tollywood industry, starring in other successful films including, Satyam, Masti, Samba and Sye. She followed it up with a pairing with popular actor Venkatesh in Subhash Chandra Bose. She returned to the Tamil industry with the Sachein with Vijay.It was a mediocre movie that beat Mumbai Express and lost to Chandramukhi which were all released on April 14, 2005. An important information about this movie is that it was shot at brisk speed as it was an interim project for Vijay, squeezed between Thirupachi and Sivakasi, with him pairing for the first time with Asin in the latter while his lucky lady, Trisha was his lead lady in the earlier mentiond. In Telugu, Happy opposite Allu Arjun was a hit. Bommarillu, with Siddharth Narayan, is a super hit and won Best Movie Award in the Santosham Film Awards. Chennai Kadhal, her Tamil project did average business.[1] She was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai. Recently, she won the Filmfare Award as a Best Actress for her performance in the block buster Telugu movie Bommarillu for the year 2006. She acted in her first Kannada film Satya In Love in 2008. The film grossed close to 4 crores in its opening weekend creating a new record in the Kannada film industry.