Aamna Sharif

Aamna Sharif (born 16 July 1982) is an Indian television actress known for portraying Kashish in Kahiin to Hoga and Komolika Chaubey Basu in Kasautii Zindagii Kay 2.[4][5]

Aamna Sharif was born on 16 July 1982 in Mumbai, Maharashtra to an Indian father and a Persian-Bahraini mother.[6][7] She studied at St. Anne’s High School, Bandra.[7]

In 2012, Sharif revealed that she suffers from acrophobia since childhood.[8] After dating for almost a year, Sharif married her film distributor-turned-producer boyfriend Amit Kapoor, on 27 December 2013,[9][10] and converted to Hinduism prior to her wedding.[11] They couple had their first child a boy in September 2015.[12][13] They named that son as Arain Kapoor.[14]

During her second year in college, Sharif started receiving offers for modelling of various brands. Sharif started her career through featuring in music videos.[15] Sharif made her acting debut as Kashish Sinha in Kahiin To Hoga opposite Rajeev Khandelwal.[16] From 2012 to 2013, she played Muskaan Mishra in Sony TV’s Hongey Judaa Na Hum opposite Raqesh Vashisth.

Shariff made her film debut with the 2009 Bollywood film Aloo Chaat opposite Aftab Shivdasani.[15] In the same year, she also starred in Aao Wish Karein, with Shivdasani again.[17] In 2014, she appeared in Mohit Suri’s Ek Villain.[15] However, none of the films gained her recognition making her return to television in 2012 with Hongey Judaa Na Hum.[18]

In 2019, Sharif made her television comeback after six years with Star Plus’s Kasautii Zindagii Kay where she plays the antagonist Komolika Basu replacing Hina Khan.[19]