Known For: Indian actress (1954–2005)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: model, film actor
Country: India
City: Junagadh
Date of Birth: Sunday, 04 April 1954
Died: 2005-01-20 00:00:00 in Q1156
Language Hindi,
Parveen Babi was an Indian actress and model who worked in Hindi films. Regarded as one of the finest actresses of Indian cinema, she was one of the highest-paid actresses of 1970s and early 1980s. Babi was known for her "glamorous" acting style; her modeling and fashion sense additionally established her as an icon.
BirthPlace | Junagadh |
Education | Q24943871 |
Wikipedia | Parveen_Babi |
Parveen Babi was born on 4 April 1949 in Junagadh, Gujarat. She was the only child in a noble Junagadh-based family who belonged to the Babi tribe of Pashtuns known as the Pathans of Gujarat that had long settled in Gujarat. Parveen was born fourteen years after the marriage of her parents. Her father, Vali Mohammed Khan Babi, was an administrator with the Nawab of Junagadh and her mother was Jamal Bakhte Babi (died 2001). She lost her father in 1955 when she was six years old. She did her early schooling from Mount Carmel High School, Ahmedabad and later attended St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English literature.