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Swati Verma
Born	Swati Verma 15 October 1981 (age 35) Mumbai, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress, Television presenter
Years active	2007-present

Swati Verma is an Indian film actress primarily working with Bhojpuri film industry. She has also acted in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. She has established a career in Bhojpuri language films and is cited in the media as one of the most popular celebrities. Verma parachuted into stardom soon after her maiden Bhojpuri film Sasurari Zindabad hit the marquee.

Swati hail from Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh but her birthplace is Mumbai. Her parents are doctors, and worked in KEM hospital, Mumbai, in the 1970s. Later, her parents shifted to Bilaspur and Verma went to Russia. She did her diploma in Russian and also studied interior designing in Russia. She speaks English, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Tamil and is a well trained Kathak dancer. She also has a black belt in Karate.

Verma felt daunted as the very prospect of acting, She commented saying, "Hailing from a place like Bilaspur that is nowhere even distantly associated to glitz and glamour, acting did seem a bit far-fetched." Before starting her career off as an actress, Swati trained at the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute in Mumbai. She made her acting debut in episodic serial Ek din ki vardi (Sahara). Later, she appeared in Suraag (SAB TV) and Aryaman (Doordarshan network).

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