Wamiqa Gabbi

Wamiqa Gabbi is an Indian actress who works in Punjabi, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu films. Gabbi was born into a Punjabi family. Her father is a notable Hindi and Punjabi novelist. She studied at St. Xavier's School and completed her graduation from D.A.V College in Chandigarh. Gabbi made her debut with the Hindi film Jab We Met (2007), in which she played one of Geet's (Kareena Kapoor) cousins. She then went on to feature in the Punjabi movie Tu Mera 22 Main Tera 22 (2013) with co-stars Yo Yo Honey Singh and Amrinder Gill. She received a nomination for the best supporting actress for her role at the PTC Punjabi Film Awards. Over the years, she continued to feature in other Punjabi movies like Ishq Brandy (2014), Nikka Zaildar 2 (2017), Parahuna (2018), Dil Diyan Gallan (2019), and Nikka Zaildar 3 (2019). Gabbi got her first lead role as Tanisha in Sixteen (2013) and then another in the Telugu film Bhale Manchi Roju (2015). From then on, she played the lead in various South Indian films, including the Tamil film Maalai Nerathu Mayakkam (2016) and the Malayalam film Godha (2017) with Tovino Thomas. She won the best debut actress award for her performance in Godha at the Flowers Indian Film Awards in 2018. She bagged another Tamil film, Iravaakaalam, in March 2017, which was directed by Ashwin Saravanan, and starring Shivada Nair and S.J. Suryah. She also featured as the lead with Prithviraj Sukumaran and Mamta Mohandas in 9 (2019). In 2021, she appeared in a small role in the movie '83 (2021), in which she played Annu Lal, Madan Lal's wife. In 2023, she did the Punjabi movie Kali Jotta (2023). She also did a short film titled Fursat (2023) with Ishaan Khattar, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. Besides films, Gabbi has appeared in web series like Eclipse (2021) on Hotstar, Mai (2022) on Netflix, and Modern Love: Mumbai (2022) on Amazon Prime Video. She has also appeared in several music videos like Ishq Haazir Hai (2015), Angreji wali Madam (2017), Akhil: Teri Khaamiyan (2018), 100 Percent Love Aata (2018), Kade Haan Kade Naa (2021), and Afsana Khan: Tere Laare (2021).