Mandana Karimi

Karimi was born on 19 May 1988 in Tehran, Iran, into a Muslim family. Her father has Iranian and Indian ancestry and her mother is a Persian. She was raised in Tehran. About her Indian connection she commented, "I had come to India many times, visiting my family or for holidays." == Career ==

Karimi started her career as an air hostess, and later quit that job to pursue a career in modelling. In 2010, after working on various international modelling projects, she came to Mumbai for three months on a modelling contract. In February 2015, she made a guest appearance in the film Roy. Karimi was a contestant in the reality TV show, Bigg Boss 9, where a group of celebrities from various walks of life live together in a large house. One of the contestants is eliminated every week, based on public votes. The show went on air in October 2015 on Colors. She was one of the three finalists of the season and ended up as a runner-up. In 2018, she joined Star Plus's Ishqbaaaz as Nancy. In October 2018, Karimi accused Umesh Ghadge the director of Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 of sexual harassment. She had also accused director Sajid Khan of sexual harassment at the time and expressed her intention to quit Bollywood after Khan appeared as contestant on Bigg Boss 16 in 2022. Mandana participated in an Indian TV reality show called Lock Upp. == Personal life ==

In an interview, Karimi said, "The first film that I watched was Sholay when I was 8 or 9 years old. My father was one of the few people in Iran who possessed a tape of the film, though the Government didn't allow to keep video cassettes." She further commented, "Mainly, I've grown up watching Iranian films, especially by directors like Majid Majidi and my favourite actress is Golshifteh Farahani." She had shortly before converted from Islam to Hinduism. In July 2017, Karimi filed a domestic violence case against her husband and his family, which she later withdrew in hopes of saving her marriage. They got divorced in 2021.{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/lock-upp-mandana-karimi-claims-that-her-ex-husband-gaurav-gupta-slept-with-other-women-says-in-these-four-years-of-separation-he-slept-with-whoever-i-knew/articleshow/90650582.cms ==Filmography==

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