Ragini Dwivedi

Ragini Dwivedi
Dwivedi at Acharya Habba in 2012
Born	Ragini Dwivedi (1990-05-25) 25 May 1990 (age 26) Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2009–present
Modeling information
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)

Ragini Dwivedi (born 25 May 1990) is an Indian film actress and model who appears in South Indian cinema, but primarily in Kannada cinema. As a model, she was the runner-up of the 2008 Femina Miss India contest and won the Richfeel Femina Miss Beautiful Hair award at the 2009 Pantaloons Femina Miss India contest.

She made her entry to filmdom with Veera Madakari (2009) which won her the Suvarna Film Award for Best Debut Actress. She rose to fame starring in successful Kannada language films, Kempe Gowda (2011), Shiva (2012), Bangari (2013) and Ragini IPS (2014), thus establishing herself as one of the leading actresses in Kannada cinema.

Dwivedi was born to a Punjabi family on 24 May 1990 in Bangalore, Karnataka and was brought up there. However, she has her roots in Rewari, Haryana. Her father Rakesh Kumar Dwivedi, born in Rewari, was an Army general in the Indian Army and her mother Rohini, a housewife. Her paternal grandfather Pyare Lal Dwivedi was a railway guard in Rewari.

She was recognised by fashion designer, Prasad Bidapa in 2008 and introduced her to modelling. As a model, she modelled for Lakme Fashion Week, Sri Lanka fashion week and for designers like Rohit Bal, Tarun Tahiliani, Manish Malhotra, Ritu Kumar and Sabyasachi Mukherjee. She participated in the Femina Miss India contest held in Hyderabad in December 2008, where she was declared the first runner-up, thus receiving a direct entry to the 2009 Pantaloons Femina Miss India in Mumbai, where she was given the Richfeel Miss Beautiful Hair title.