Tara Sharma

Tara Sharma Saluja
Tara promotes '10ml Love', 2010
Born	(1977-01-11) 11 January 1977 London, England, UK
Nationality	British Indian
Occupation	Actress, Model, Hostess
Spouse(s)	Roopak Saluja (2007-present)
Children	2

Tara Sharma (born 11 January 1977; London, England) is an British film actress, model & hostes^[1] with her own show, The Tara Sharma Show on parenting and maternal child care on Star World India, which has also aired previously on Colors, Pogo & Imagine TV channels

Early life and education

She was born to writer and theater actor Partap Sharma and Susan Sharma, and she has a sister, Namrita. She studied at the London High School ^[2] affiliated with ICSE and did well academically. She graduated with a distinction and finished her IB on a scholarship, at the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy. Tara Sharma did her B.Sc in Management at the London School of Economics.

Career

After graduating from LSE, she was a financial consultant at Citibank and Accenture. Realizing her latent love for modeling, she did a couple of advertisements for Lakme, Garnier and Pepsi, the latter included a commercial with Shah Rukh Khan and which proved to be a stepping stone into movies.^[3]

She debuted in Anupam Kher's Om Jai Jagadish. The movies she appeared in Khosla Ka Ghosla and Page 3 are critically acclaimed, and Saaya and Masti were commercial successes.

Tara's father died in 2011. "Losing my father ... left me devastated and changed my life too. But, I do have a strong belief that no one really goes away and my father will always live in our hearts," she said.^[4] She became involved in spreading awareness about good parenting and maternal child care,^[5] conceptualizing and starting her show on new-age motherhood, The Tara Sharma Show. The show's first two seasons were successes and the third season debuted on Colors and Nick from October 18, 2013.^[6][7] Tara co-produces the show with the 120 Media Collective.^[8][9]

Personal life

She married ad film producer Roopak Saluja, an INSEAD alumnus in November 2007. The couple have two sons, Zen (b. 2009) and Kai (b. 2011).

Filmography

Films

Television

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tara Sharma.

• Tara Sharma at the Internet Movie Database
• The Tara Sharma Show
• The Tara Sharma Show on Facebook