The bubbly actress of the Bollywood industry is none other than Preity Zinta. She has worked for Telugu movies as well as Punjabi movies. She was born on the 31st january, 1975. She is now more of a Business woman than actor now.She has won 19 film awards, 3 international awards and 11 other awards. She is the daughter of Late Durganand and Nilprabha Zinta. She is originally from Shimla. Her father died in a car crash when the little Zinta was only 13 years old. She completed her graduation from St. bede's college which is located in Shimla. She has a postgraduate degree in Criminology and later took up modelling. She made her debut with Mani Ratnam's film Dil Se co-starring Shah Rukh Khan.She also worked in Kunal Kundan's Kya Kehana. In the year 2008 she was seen in the movie Hero's with Salman Khan. Now she owns Mohali based Indian cricket team in the Indian Premier League. They have named it king's 11 Punjab.In the year 2000 she dated model Marc Robinson. They separated the very next year however they still remained in good terms. She also dated Bombay Deying heir Ness Wadia from the year 2005 -2008. Her one of the movies which hit sky was Devdas. It amounted to Rs. 84.30 crore.She was awarded the Godfrey Philips National Bravery award for being a witness against the indian mafia during the year 2003. She also joined a South Asian commentators for BBC News online. So these are a few non- acting works she has performed.