Priety Zinta, a beauty from Himachal Pardesh first made waves with her Liril ad on Indian TV. She made her entry into Bollywood through no less than Mani Ratnam's Dil Se.

An Aquarian, 5' 5" tall, in her early thirties, born on Jan 31, Priety Zinta's family lives in Delhi. She studied in Shimla in boarding.

She is known to be outspoken. She takes a lot of care in choosing her roles when she gets an offer.

Her smile wins the hearts.

• Sajid Nadiadwala’s Jaan-e-man. Directed by Shirish Kunder. Starring Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta.
• Preety Zinta has been signed for a Yashraj product, Salaam Namaste, to be directed by the screenplay writer of Hum Tum- 26-year-old Siddharth Raj Anand. Preety's co-star in the film is Saif. This is Saif and Preity's fourth film together, after Kya Kehna, Dil Chahta Hai and Kal Ho Na Ho. The film will be shot in Australia for three months.

Salaam Namaste debuted at the national British film charts at number 14

Priety Zinta won the Best Actress Award for her movie Kal Ho Na Ho from Sansui Movie Awards held on February 1 in Mumbai. She is going to contribute a monthly column to the BBC on life and cinema.

• Sep 9, 2005 Salaam Namaste Yashraj product, directed by the screenplay writer of Hum Tum- 26-year-old Siddharth Raj Anand. Her co-star in this comedy/romance film is Saif Ali Khan. This is Saif and Preity's fourth film together, after Kya Kehna, Dil Chahta Hai and Kal Ho Na Ho. The film was shot in Australia for three months.
• 12 Nov 2004 Veer Zaara (Sharukh Khan, Manoj Bajpai, Rani Mukherji, Amitabh Bachchan)
• Sep 2004 Dil Ne Jise Apna Kaha (Salman Khan, Preity Zinta, Bhumika Chawla)
• 2004 Lakshya (Preity Zinta, Hritik Roshan, Amitabh Bachchan)
• 2003 Armaan (Preity Zinta, Amitabh Bachchan and anil Kapoor)
• 2003 The Hero (Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, Amrish Puri, Kabir Bedi)
• 2003 Kal Ho Naa Ho (Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta )
• 2001 Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta)
• 2000 Har Di Jo Pyar Karega (Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Salman Khan )
• 2000 Mission Kashmir (Preity Zinta, Hiritk Roshan)
• 1998 Dil Se (Preity Zinta, Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala)