Personal details
- Birth Date: 1985-11-02
- Height: 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Birth Location: Bombay, Maharashtra, India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
- Professions: Actress
Diana Penty kicked off her story in Bombay—yep, born and raised, with a Christian mom and a Parsi dad. She went through the usual grind at St. Agnes high school, then landed herself a degree in Mass Comm from St. Xavier’s. Not exactly a cookie-cutter background, right? 2005 rolls around, and she dives into modeling. Didn’t take long for her to strut the runway for some swanky Italian designers like Trussadi and Ferre, especially during the India-Italy fest in 2006. People noticed. Like, really noticed. Maybelline even swooped in and swapped out Deepika Padukone for Diana as their new face, and soon after, Garnier wanted her too. That’s some serious glow-up. Bollywood started circling by 2008, but Diana took her sweet time. She wasn’t in a rush, and honestly, why should she be? She finally made the leap in 2012, starring in Homi Adajania’s “Cocktail” with Saif Ali Khan and, funny enough, Deepika again. Her role as Meera—a girl tossed into a whirlwind abroad—blew up. Awards, headlines, the whole shebang. Instead of milking the fame, she stuck to her modeling roots and kicked a bunch of scripts to the curb, holding out for something worthy. Word on the street is she’s lined up to star opposite Salman Khan in Sooraj Barjatya’s next big thing, supposed to start filming in 2015. Not bad for a girl who started out walking runways, huh?
Spent ages hustling in the modeling scene, but things really kicked off after that Garnier shampoo ad—yeah, the one everyone seemed to notice overnight. Funny how a single commercial can flip the script. Suddenly, casting calls started rolling in, people stopped seeing just another face in a magazine spread, and the whole vibe changed. It’s wild, thinking about all those years working runways or posing for catalogs and then—boom—one TV spot, and the phones won’t stop ringing. Happens a lot in the industry, honestly. You grind for ages, then that one gig hits, and suddenly everyone acts like they discovered you. The Garnier spot? Total game changer. Opened doors to bigger campaigns, film offers, even magazine covers that used to seem out of reach. Just goes to show, sometimes it’s all about being in the right place at the right time, with a little luck and a lot of hair flipping.
November 2, 1985
5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
Konidela Ram Charan
Bombay, Maharashtra, India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
39 years old