Diya Mirza
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| Born |
Dia Handrich 9 December 1981 Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
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| Residence | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Occupation | Model, actor, film producer |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Title(s) | Miss Asia Pacific 2000 Femina Miss India Asia Pacific 2000 |
| Major competition(s) |
Femina Miss India 2000 (Femina Miss India Asia Pacific 2000) (Miss Beautiful Smile) Miss Asia Pacific 2000 (Winner) (Miss Close-Up Smile) (Miss AVON) |
| Spouse | Sahil Sangha (m. 2014) |
Dia Mirza Sangha (born Dia Handrich on 9 December 1981) is an Indian model, actress and producer, who won the Miss Asia Pacific 2000 title. Mirza has primarily worked in Bollywood and is known in media for her social work. She co-owns a production house Born Free Entertainment with her husband Sahil Sangha. Their first film, Love Breakups Zindagi, was released on 7 October 2011.
Mirza was born in India. Her father, Frank Handrich, was a German Christian graphic and industrial fair designer, architect, artist and interior designer based in Munich. Her mother, Deepa, is a Bengali Hindu who is an interior designer, landscaper and currently does social work as a volunteer to help alcoholics and drug addicts. When Dia was four-and-a-half years old, her parents got divorced. Immediately afterwards, her mother married Ahmed Mirza, an Indian Muslim from Hyderabad, and Dia (then only a toddler) was given the surname of her step-father. Dia's step-father also died in 2003.
When living in Khairatabad, Hyderabad city, Dia initially attended Vidyaranya High School, a co-ed institution run partly based on the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti. Later, at the insistence of her step-father, Dia was shifted to Nasr School, a Muslim educational institution also located in Khairtabad, a suburb of Hyderabad. After finishing school, Dia attended Stanley Junior College and completed her graduation in Bachelor of Arts from Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad.
In April 2014, she got engaged to her longtime business partner Sahil Sangha. Mirza and Sangha got married on 18 October 2014 at her husband's sprawling farmhouse in Chattarpur on the outskirts of Delhi.
Dia Mirza worked while in college as a marketing executive for a media firm, Neeraj's Multi-media Studio. At the same time she modeled for print and TV commercials for brands like Lipton, Wall's ice cream, Emami and many more. She won Miss Asia Pacific in 2000.
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