Priyanka Chopra has achieved global celebrity status. She’s won one of the biggest beauty pageants in the country. She is a popular celebrity from Bollywood who has produced some blockbuster films. Through her notable efforts in the film industry, she has received numerous awards and honours. Besides this, she has featured in several magazines for beauty and fashion. Priyanka Chopra was born in Jamshedpur, on 18 July 1982.
Priyanka Chopra is the best example of brain beauty, as she is on the list of all-time most popular Bollywood celebrities. She’s created many records and broken a number of records in her long 13-year Bollywood career. She was credited with a number of ‘firsts’ to her name in addition to this. Check out the number of records she has set up for herself in the industry.
1. Youngest Indian to win a Miss World title
We all know Priyanka Chopra was the winner of the Miss World’s pageant title for beauty in 2000. Little you know she won the title when she was just 18 and that helped her youngest Indian win the title of Miss World.
Reita Faria was the first Indian to earn the title in 1966, at the age of 21. When they won the pageant, Aishwarya, Diana Hayden, and Yukta Mookhey had been in their 20s.
2. First Miss World to win a National Award
She did a film about the fashion industry ‘s glamorous culture. She received the national award in the movie Fashion for the impactful performance.
She was the first Miss World to receive the National Title, with this distinction. The movie was a masterpiece and Priyanka also won the same feature Film fare awards.
3. First Bollywood actress to play 12 roles in a film.
Priyanka Chopra set the record in one movie to play 12 different roles, ‘What’s Your Raashee? ‘The film was based on the theme of finding the love that fits the zodiac sign.
The Guinness Book of World Records also looked at this Priyanka Chopra achievement.
4. First Bollywood actress to feature in Italy’s Salvatore Ferragamo museum.
Priyanka Chopra was invited to cast her foot impression in 2010, at the renowned Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence, Italy. She was following the likes of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe in this.
She was the first star in Bollywood to do so. She is the second Indian celebrity to do so for the record, preceded by Indira Devi, Cooch Behar’s Maharani, who won the honour in 1938.
5. First Bollywood actress to win the Trailblazer Award.
Priyanka Chopra was awarded the 2011 Trailblazer award at New York’s South Asians in Advertising, Marketing and Entertaining Association (SAMMA).SAMMA had praised her for forging a new path in the entertainment industry for Indians.
6. First Bollywood star signed by Creative Artists Agency.
As a graphic artist, she was signed by the Los Angeles Creative Artists Agency. It is one of the world’s two largest sport and entertainment talent agencies that has several Hollywood stars in the A-list as their clients.
In 2012, Priyanka became the first actress from Bollywood to have been signed by Creative Artists Agency.
7. The only Bollywood actress to work in the maximum remakes
Priyanka Chopra is just a Bollywood actress who has worked in 4 remakes of Bollywood, where the film’s name was almost the same.
She was on Don, Dostana, Agneepath, and Zanjeer. Ironically all of these 4 films belong to the filmography of Amitabh Bachchan.
8. First Bollywood actress to play the lead in a Sports biopic.
Priyanka Chopra was the first actress in Bollywood to play the lead in the biopic Sports. She embellished Boxer Mary Kom’s look.
The film was a biopic about Kom’s journey from a small-town girl to an Olympic and World Champion.
9. First South Asian woman to play the female lead in an American TV series.
Priyanka gained Global celebrity status with her appearance as Alex Parrish in the Quantico series of ABC dramas.
She was the first Asian woman to play the lead on an American television series.
10. First Bollywood actress to produce a Mobi-series
You know nothing that Priyanka Chopra is the first Bollywood actress to have created a Mobi-series.
This series can only be viewed in a smartphone app. It is a sitcom with 14 episodes, titled ‘It’s My House.’
11. First South Asian actress to win a ‘People’s Choice Award’
Priyanka has won the prestigious People’s Choice Award for her appearance in the Quantico TV series.
She shared the awards with Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Marcia Gay Harden and Jamie Lee Curtis as other nominees.
