Sakshi Tanwar is an Indian television actress.
She is best known for playing the role of Parvati in the television soap opera, Kahaani
Ghar Ghar Kii; the serial enjoyed tremendous popularity in India and abroad.
Sakshi Tanwar was born in a middle-class family from Bhilai, Chhattisgarh.
Her father Rajendra Singh Tanwar is a retired CBI officer.
She was educated in many Kendriya Vidyalayas and graduated from Lady Shri Ram College in
New Delhi.
After her graduation she was preparing for the entrance tests to the administrative services
and mass communications, when a close friend of her suggested that she should go and audition
for the national broadcaster Doordarshan's film songs based program Albela Sur Mela;
to her surprise she was selected and from there begun her journey towards Television.
During her college days she was the secretary and president of the dramatic society.
Career
Tanwar started her career as an anchor in Doordarshan.
She anchored the film songs-based program Albela Sur Mela.
She was then seen acting in soaps such as Ehsaas, Dastoor, Bhanwar, and X-Zone before
she got her big break of playing the central role in Rajdhani.
She had to work on her voice while playing the character of Sher Bano, in Dastoor.
The major turning point of her career came when she was offered the role of Parvati in
Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki.
Sakshi has worked in other serials, including Devi, where she played the central character
of Gayatri, who is a spiritually inclined woman with a strong connection to Goddess
Durga.
She did a digital film Kahin Door, directed by Sandeep Varma, in 2002.
She worked on Colors' Balika Vadhu in the role of Teepri.
Her performance as Teepri was so well accepted that made Balika Vadhu top show of 2009.
She appeared in few movies in 2008, one of them being Coffee House, in which she was
the main protagonist.
She appeared in a cameo role in Ekta Kapoor's C Kkompany.
Tanwar has played the role of a municipal officer in the movie Saluun.
She appeared in two short films, O Re Manva and Bawra Mann.
O Re Manva won the best International Narrative Short at the New York International Film Festival
in 2009.
She worked as a creative director in the production company Positive Thinkerz and tried her hands
directing Sammaan Ek Adhikaar.
Since 2011, she plays the character Priya Kapoor in Ekta Kapoor's Bade Achhe Lagte Hain
on Sony TV.
The series co-stars Ram Kapoor as the male protagonist.
The role won her several awards for Best Actress at events including Indian Telly Award for
Best Actress, BIG Star Most Entertaining TV Actor, two Global Indian Film and TV Honours,
and People's Choice Awards.
In November, 2011 Tanwar made an appearance during the Diwali episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati
with Ram Kapoor where they won Rs. 25,00,000.
This was Tanwar's third appearance on the show.
Also in 2011 she appeared in the short film Bawra Mann.
In December 2012, she made an appearance in the Christmas episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati
with Ram Kapoor and Amruta Mukherjee where she won Rs. 12,50,000.
This was Tanwar's fourth appearance on the show.
In January 2013, she was voted #1 with Ram Kapoor, by the poll conducted by matrimonial
website Shaadi.com which revealed that 42.3% of Indians consider them as the perfect jodi.
In April 2013, she featured as a 'nauch girl' in one of the stories of eight episodic mini-series
Ek Thhi Naayka produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms for the promotion of their
upcoming film Ek Thi Daayan.
The show also featured Smriti Irani, Shweta Tiwari, Aamna Shariff, Mauli Ganguly, Ankita
Lokhande, Kritika Kamra and Pooja Gaur in another seven stories.
In the same year in a survey conducted by Ormax Media, Tanwar featured in Top 5 most
trustworthy celebrities with Madhuri Dixit and Katrina Kaif.
Television
Fiction shows Reality shows
Films
References
External links Sakshi Tanwar at the Internet Movie Database