Sobhita Dhulipala Height, Age, Boyfriend, Husband, Family, Biography

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Marital Status: Engaged

Height: 5' 9"

Age: 32 Years

Bio/Wiki
Profession(s)	Actress, Model
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 175 cm in meters- 1.75 m in feet & inches- 5’ 9”
Weight (approx.)	in kilograms- 55 kg in pounds- 121 lbs
Figure Measurements (approx.)	33-25-33
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Career
Debut	Film • Hindi-Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016) as Smrutika Naidu • Telugu- Goodachari (2018) as Sameera Rao / Sameera Sheikh • Malayalam- Moothon (2019) as Rosy • Tamil-Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022) as Vaanathi Web Series: Made in Heaven (2019) as Tara
Awards, Honours, Achievements	• Breakthrough Performer of the Year at Grazia Millenial Awards (2019) • Lokmat Most Stylish Awards (2019) • Mouldbreaker of the Year at Lions Gold Awards (2022) • Grazia Young Fashion Award for Breakthrough Style (2022) • Best Actress – Popular (OTT) at the Indian Television Academy Awards (2023) for the web series The Night Manager • ELLE India Style Icon Award (2023) • Game Changer Best Actor of the Year Award at Bollywood Hungama India Entertainment Awards (2023) • Stylish Performer of the Year Award at the Midday Showbiz Icon Awards (2023) • Trendsetter of the Year at the Grazia India Millennial Awards (2023)
Personal Life
Date of Birth	31 May 1992 (Sunday)
Age (as of 2024)	32 Years
Birthplace	Tenali, Andhra Pradesh
Zodiac sign	Gemini
Signature
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
School	• Little Angels School, Vishakapatnam (from Class 3 to 10) • Visakha Valley School, Vishakapatnam
College/University	• HR College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai • Symbiosis University, Pune
Educational Qualification(s)	• Bachelor of Commerce at HR College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai ^[1]The Hindu • Post Graduate Diploma in Business and Corporate law from Symbiosis University, Pune ^[2]Femina
Religion	Hinduism ^[3]Sobhita Dhulipala - Instagram
Caste	Brahmin ^[4]Femina
Ethnicity	Telugu
Food Habit	Non-vegetarian ^[5]Sobhita Dhulipala – Facebook
Hobbies	Travelling, Reading books, Writing, Swimming, Painting, Gardening, Singing, Playing the guitar
Tattoo	A heartbeat tattoo on the side of her left wrist
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Engaged
Affairs/Boyfriends	• Pranav Misra (2019) (fashion designer; co-founder of the fashion brand Huemn) • Naga Chaitanya (actor)
Engagement Date	8 August 2024
Fiancé	Naga Chaitanya
Family
Husband/Spouse	N/A
Parents	Father- Venugopal Rao (engineer in the merchant navy) Mother- Santha Rao (primary school teacher)
Siblings	Sister- Samantha (radiologist)
Favourites
Cuisine	Telugu, Tamil, Italian
Food	Tibetan Cuisines, Noodles, Waffles
Singer	Leonard Cohen, Geeta Dutt
Actor(s)	Hrithik Roshan, Mahesh Babu
Actress(s)	Meena Kumari, Rekha, Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra
Poet(s)	Charles Bukowski, Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, John Keats
Films	Hindi- Jodha Akbar (2008), Umrao Jaan (1981), Guzaarish (2010), Fashion (2008) Bengali- Shob Charitro Kalponik (2009) English- Harry Potter Series, Cloud Atlas (2012), Titanic (1997)
Fashion Brands	Gucci, Huemn, The Row, Raw Mango, Vintage YSL
Play	Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Book	Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
Quote	To deliver is my duty, to reciprocate is their choice

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sobhita Dhulipala

Sobhita was 3 when her family moved from Tenali to Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
Childhood picture of Sobhita Dhulipala

Growing up, she was a geek and loner. She never dreamed of becoming an actress. In fact, she wanted to become a writer.

In an interview, Sobhita said she was afraid of failing in history exam when she was in Class 9.

While attending Little Angels School, she won second prize in an essay writing competition. She recalled the same in an interview and said,

That prize was the beginning of my winning streak.”

When she was at Little Angels School, a boy named Prem liked her. He would sing the song “Feel My Love” from the film Arya (2004) whenever she was near. He also rode his bicycle in circles around her on the school ground.

She participated in the 2010 Navy Queen Ball peagent.

After completing her schooling in Visakhapatnam, she moved to Mumbai in 2010.

During her college days, economists Kaushik Basu and Amartya Sen were her idols.

She is a trained Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi dancer.

Towards the end of her graduation, Dhulipala enrolled her name in the Femina Miss India competition when her friend, who was interning at the Miss India office, asked her to audition for it.

In an interview, Sobhita said she entered the Miss India competition intending to clear just the first round. She wanted to show her friends that she was more than just a geek. Talking about the same, she said,

My friend was interning at the Miss India office and asked me to go for an audition. I just wanted to clear one basic round to show it to my friends. ‘I’m in this mind space and I can do this, losers’. I cleared the first round and then I wanted to do more.”
In 2013, Sobhita was crowned Pond’s Femina Miss India Bangalore. She won the title of Miss Adventurous during the sub-contests.
Sobhita Dhulipala (centre) as the winner of Pond’s Femina Miss India Bangalore 2013

After that, she won the title of Femina Miss India South 2013.

She won the titles of ‘iTimes Femina Miss Digital Diva’ and ‘Femina Miss Talented’ during the sub-contests at the Femina Miss India 2013 competition.

She was crowned the first runner-up of Femina Miss India 2013.
Sobhita Dhulipala as the first runner-up of Pond’s Femina Miss India 2013

She celebrated the 2013 World Environment Day by planting 30 saplings in her neighbourhood. She promoted environment conservation by taking an oath to use only paper or cloth bags.

Sobhita represented India at the Miss Earth 2013 in the Philippines. There, she won the titles of Miss Photogenic, Miss Eco Beauty, and Miss Ever Bilena during the sub-contents.
A collage of Sobhita Dhulipala’s pictures in which she is posing with her Miss Earth 2013 gold medal

Soon, she started working as a model. She has walked the ramp at various prestigious events, modelling for numerous brands.
Sobhita Dhulipala as the showstopper at Hyderabad International Fashion Week in 2014

Another significant moment in her modelling career came in 2014 when she was featured in the Kingfisher Calendar.

Interestingly, Sobhita started having an identity crisis after winning the Femina Miss India 2013 title. In an interview, she said that the pageant had damaged her self-esteem. Earlier she was a “loner and uncool” person, who used to seek validation from others. After winning the competition, Sobhita felt she was forced to please and entertain others. Talking about the same in an interview, she said,

Earlier, I would never focus on how I looked because I thought I was just ‘ok’. So my focus was on being well-read, good in studies, school captain. My personality depended on what I read, not on some magical genetic thing. “In Miss India, so much was about how you looked. These are the things I judged as a child. So I felt cornered because I was doing the same things. I didn’t feel good in my heart.”

A picture of Sobhita Dhulipala

She came into the limelight with her debut Hindi film, Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016), which earned her a nomination for the Critic’s Choice Best Supporting Performance at the 2016 Cannes. She was also nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer – Female at the 2018 Screen Awards for Raman Raghav 2.0.

In July 2016, she signed a three-film deal with the renowned production house Phantom Films.

Other Hindi films under her belt include Chef (2017) as Vinnie, Kaalakaandi (2018) as Tara, and The Body (2019) as Maya Verma.

In 2018, Mahesh Babu appreciated Sobhita for her performance in the film Goodachari via a tweet. Sobhita replied to the tweet writing “Thank you!”. The reply offended Mahesh Babu’s fans who started trolling her, saying she should learn to respect a senior actor and shouldn’t just respond with a simple ‘Thank you.’

She rose to popularity with the Hindi web series Made in Heaven (2019) in which she played the lead role of a wedding planner named Tara Khanna. The show streamed on Amazon Prime Video. She was nominated in the category of Best Actress – Dramaat iReel Awards (2019) for the role.
Sobhita Dhulipala as Tara Khanna Made in Heaven (2019)

In 2019, she played the role of Isha Khanna in the Hindi spy thriller web series Bard of Blood on Netflix.

In 2020, she was featured in Anurag Kashyap’s Hindi horror film Ghost Stories (2020) in which she played the role of Neha. She caught the public attention for a graphic scene in the film in which eats a foetus after suffering a miscarriage. A complaint was registered against Kashyap for the same.

She played the role of Pramoda Reddy in the bilingual action film Major (2022), which was released in Hindi and Telugu. The role earned her a nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actress – Telugu at the South Indian International Movie Awards (2023).

She earned a nomination in the category of Best Actress – Malayalam at the South Indian International Movie Awards (2022) for her role as Sharadamma / Sharadha Kurup in the Malayalam crime thriller film Kurup (2021).
Sobhita Dhulipala as Sharadamma / Sharadha Kurup in the biographical crime thriller film Kurup (2021)

In 2023, she played Kaveri Dixit in the Hindi crime thriller series The Night Manager on Disney+ Hotstar.
Sobhita Dhulipala as Kaveri Dixit in The Night Manager (2023)