Kareena was born to Sindhi language Babita (nee Shivdasani) and Punjabi-speaking Randhir Kapoor September 21, 1977 in Bombay, India. She has an elder sister, Karisma.
She was born into a family who have been actors for generations, including her great paternal grandfather, Prithviraj Kapoor, her grandfather, Raj Kapoor, her paternal uncles, Shammi, Shashi, Rishi and Rajiv, and aunt, Neetu Singh, & Jennifer Kendall, the wives of Rishi and Shashi respectively. Besides her mother, her grandfather, Hari Shivdasani, and aunt, Sadhana, have been actors in their own rights.
As a child, she studied Jamnabai Narsee School in Juhu, Bombay, and was enrolled in boarding school Dehra Dun prestigious Welham Girls. Then she moved to Harvard for approximately 3 months to take a course in Information Technology and Microcomputers. After her return to India, she joined the Government Law College in Churchgate, Bombay, he left after a year to enroll in Kishore Namita Kapoor Acting School.
Her father, Randhir is very protective of her daughters and wanted both to stay away from acting, get married and settle in the tradition of the Kapoor family. Ther led to irreconcilable differences between her parents led to divorce, the two sisters, leaving their father to live with their mother.
Her first film was in 2000 with "refugee debut with Amitabh Bachchan's son Abherhek. She continued to appear in 31 other films in Hindi, and has so far won four awards for her performance in 'refugee', 'Chameli', 'dev' and 'Omkara'.
She was born into a family who have been actors for generations, including her great paternal grandfather, Prithviraj Kapoor, her grandfather, Raj Kapoor, her paternal uncles, Shammi, Shashi, Rishi and Rajiv, and aunt, Neetu Singh, & Jennifer Kendall, the wives of Rishi and Shashi respectively. Besides her mother, her grandfather, Hari Shivdasani, and aunt, Sadhana, have been actors in their own rights.
As a child, she studied Jamnabai Narsee School in Juhu, Bombay, and was enrolled in boarding school Dehra Dun prestigious Welham Girls. Then she moved to Harvard for approximately 3 months to take a course in Information Technology and Microcomputers. After her return to India, she joined the Government Law College in Churchgate, Bombay, he left after a year to enroll in Kishore Namita Kapoor Acting School.
Her father, Randhir is very protective of her daughters and wanted both to stay away from acting, get married and settle in the tradition of the Kapoor family. Ther led to irreconcilable differences between her parents led to divorce, the two sisters, leaving their father to live with their mother.
Her first film was in 2000 with "refugee debut with Amitabh Bachchan's son Abherhek. She continued to appear in 31 other films in Hindi, and has so far won four awards for her performance in 'refugee', 'Chameli', 'dev' and 'Omkara'.