Rakul Preet Singh

Rakul Preet Singh
Rakul Preet Singh at Baqar's spinnathon in January 2014 during the promotions of Yaariyan.
Born	(1990-10-10) 10 October 1990 (age 26) New Delhi, India
Residence	Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2009–present
Modeling information
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)

Rakul Preet Singh is an Indian film actress and model who predominantly works in Telugu film industry. She has also appeared in a few Tamil, Hindi and Kannada films.

Rakul started a modelling career while in college, during which she also made her acting debut in the Kannada film Gilli (2009). In 2011, she participated in the Femina Miss India pageant in which she was placed fifth and won five pageant titles, including 'Miss India People’s Choice'. She subsequently opted to become a full-time actress, making her Telugu debut in Keratam the same year and her Tamil debut in Thadaiyara Thaakka, the following year. In 2014 she also made her Bollywood debut in Yaariyan in which her performance was better received.

Singh was part of the commercially successful Telugu films like Venkatadri Express (2013), Current Theega (2014) and Loukyam (2014), leading her to land in bigger projects in the industry like Kick 2 (2015), Bruce Lee (2015), Nannaku Prematho (2016), Sarrainodu (2016) and Dhruva (2016).

Born in a Punjabi family in New Delhi, Rakul did her schooling from Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan and later studied Mathematics at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. She has been an active golf player and played nationals.