Karishma Kotak, a famous British-Indian actress, model, and presenter. She gained popularity from numerous shows like Bigg Boss, IPL and also acts as a model in Kingfisher Calendar.
Karishma was born on 26th May 1982 in the Northwest part of London in England. Her both father and mother are from different communities. Her father is from Gujarat and her mother is from East Africa. Karishma is a Gujarati and she also likes to be Gujarat. All of her family lives in London. Her family consists of a mother and her one younger brother named Sunny Kotak.
She did half of the schooling from Boarding school and later on shifted to the convent school. After her schooling, she did her graduation and pursuing a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Advertising and Marketing. At the starting of her career, she has no idea about making a career in acting and modeling. She wants to become a teacher and enrolled in one course in teaching. According to her dating history, she dated some actors and models like Karan wahi, Niketan Madhok, and Vishal Karwal.
Physical Features
Karishma possessed a curvy figure. She is 170 cm in height and weighs around 55 kg. Her figure measurements are 34-25-35. Her eyes color is black and her hair color is brown. She is an attractive and beautiful actress.
Career
- United Kingdom
Karishma started her career as a model. She did her first model photoshoot at the age of 16 and worked for the magazine titled,” Just Seventeen”. Apart from this she also works on various projects in England. When she was 20 years of age, she visited India. At that time, she got offers from the Indian Fashion and Film industry. When she has some meantime, she worked on different projects and fashion shows in the UK and Europe. She also works for different brands like Toni&Guy, FCUK, and many more. For the first time in the year 2004, she walked for Lakme Fashion Week. She also hosts a UK TV show named “The Show”.
- India
She came to India in the year 2005. Within a year of coming back to India, she got an offer to work with a calendar that was published by United Breweries Group. One year after, she got an offer from the Kingfisher Calendar. This move shot Karishma into the limelight and after this calendar shoot, she gets many offers for TV shows.
With modeling, she also worked for famous brands like Dove, Pond’s, Titan, Diesel, Tanishq, Saffola, and many more. She was also a brand ambassador of Dove and become a popular face. In the year 2012, she worked with Abhishek Bachan for an Idea Cellular advertisement. After this advertisement, she was hired by VVF Limited for the ad for bathing soap, “Jo”. In the same year, she worked with Salman Khan in the Relaxo Footwear ad.
Karishma is also famous as a cover girl in various magazines like Vogue, Asian Woman, OK!, Femina (India) stuff, and many more. In April 2013, she appeared as the cover girl on FHM(India) with the caption “IPLs hottest presenter-Karishma Kotak”.
Karishma is more famous as a model rather than as an actress. She worked for some famous brands like FCUK and Ralph Lauren. She also did ramp walk for Asiana Bridal show, M.A.C. Cosmetics, Provogue, and many more. She is a popular host at various events. She hosted an IPL auction in the year 2013 and that was broadcast live by Sony Six.
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Music Videos and Films
She worked on some famous music videos. In the year 2004, she worked with British singer-songwriter Jay Sean “me Against Myself”. After two years, she worked with Sonu Nigam and came up with the song “Madhbhari”. She also starred infamous music video of all time “Oscer” from her movie Kaptaan and featuring singer Badshah and Gippy Grewal.
Karishma made her debut in the year 2016 with a Punjabi movie titled “Kaptaan”. Freaky Ali is the next film where she is featured with Arbaaz Khan.
Television
The first show in which Karishma worked is a London show “The Karishma Show”. This show helps her to get exposure and then she got best fitted for the Indian-related TV show “Spa Dairies”. This show targets a high audience. She also worked with one travel show titled “It’s In”.
In the year 2012, she participated in the biggest Indian reality show Bigg Boss Season 6 as a contestant. Due to her father’s death during the show, she needs to make an emergency exit after four weeks. But, after some days, she reentered the show.
After this show, Karishma presented one show related to the post-match analysis of IPL season 6. This IPL season is telecast by SET Max.
Interests
Karishma Kotak believes in being spiritual and positive. She is fond of reading books, traveling, and watching movies. One of the hobbies is gymming. As she likes to watch movies especially of her favorite actor Ranveer Kapoor, Salman Khan, And Hugh Laurie. Her favorite actress is Kim Kardashian. Whenever she gets meantime, she likes to watch The Wolf of wall street. Her favorite holiday destination is London and Barcelona.
Some Lesser Known Facts about Karishma Kotak
- She started doing modeling at the age of 16.
- Karishma is a popular face of many magazines like Vogue, Asian Woman, Time n style beauty, and many more.
- In the year 2005, she shifted back to India and get an offer from the Kingfisher calendar in the year 2006.
- 2012, she participated in the Bigg Boss season 6 and due to her father’s demise, she exited from the show.
- In the year 2013, she co-hosted the IPL season 6.