Beautiful bollywood actress Genelia D’Souza was born in Mumbai. Her nick name is Geenu. She did her schooling at Apolostolic Carmel High School in Bandra. Afterwards she attented St. Andrews Colege for completing her graduation. She was fond of playing football at school level and even played the game at state level. She was also a state level athelete before coming into film industry. She started off her acting career with a romantic flick titled Tujhe Meri Kasam opposite another new comer, Ritesh Deshmukh, who is also supposed to be romantically linked with her. The movie was released in the year 2003. The movie did average business at the box office.

Genelia then moved towards south film industry and gave some very big hit films over there. She worked opposite almost every big star of tollywood industry. Her blockbuster film of the Telugu cinema is Bommarillu in which she starred opposite young and dashing hero, Siddharth. She won the Best Actress Award for her superb performance in the film. She then did an ad film alongwith Amitabh Bachchan. She then returned to bollywood industry and gave a hit movei in the form of Masti in which she was once again paired opposite Ritesh. After that film, she once again got busy in her tollywood movies.

She made a superb comeback in the bollywood with a comic caper Mere Baap Pehle Aap in which she was starred opposite Akshaye Khanna. She then worked in the romantic movie titled Jaane Tu Yaa Jaane Na opposite Imran Khan. The movie did exceptionally well at the box office and she rise to fame after the success of the movie. Her latest released flick was romantic comedy Life Partner which also did well among auidence as well as at the box office. Her next to be released movie is Hook Ya Crook in which she is starring opposite bollywood hunk John Abraham.