Sussanne Khan

Sussanne Khan was born to Sanjay Khan and Zarine Katrak Khan on 26 October 1975, in Bombay, as the third child in their family. Her father, Sanjay, who was a prominent actor in the 1980s and her mother, Zarine Katrak is also an actress as well as an interior designer. Her father is of mixed Afghan and Iranian descent while her mother comes from a Parsi family.

Her younger brother, Zayed Khan is also an actor who works in Bollywood. Her elder sister, Farah Khan Ali, is a jewelry designer and Sussanne's second sister, Simone Khan, is an interior designer.

She is the niece of actor Feroz Khan and director Akbar Khan (brothers of Sanjay Khan) and first cousin of Bollywood actor, Fardeen Khan. After obtaining an Associate of Arts degree in interior designing in 1995 from Brooks College in the US, Khan started her career as an interior designer in 1996 by following the footsteps of her mother who was also a well-known interior designer during her active career.

In 2011, she partnered with fellow interior designer and a well recognised film producer, Gauri Khan, to launch and introduce The Charcoal Project foundation in Mumbai, which is the first interior fashion design store in India. The Charcoal Project is also considered as the most popular design store in India.

She worked for The Label Life, an e-commerce fashion lifestyle company established in 2012. She was employed as the first interior fashion designer for the company. In 2014, she launched the official branch of Pearl Academy campus in Mumbai and supporting the students of the academy by handling scholarships.