Dia Mirza Age, Family, Husband, Height, Movies, Biography

Dia Mirza is an Indian model and actress who mainly works in Bollywood films. Apart from acting in films, she also works as a model, film producer, and social worker. Diya started her career as a model and later turned into acting. She also appears in various commercials like popular brands Lipton, Wall’s ice cream, Emami, and many more. Let us know more about her early life and acting journey in this article.

Dia Mirza’s age is 39 years old, her height 5 ft 6 inches tall, and her weight 62 Kg. Her body measurements like bust size, waist size, and hip size are 34-28-36 inches. Her bra size is 34B, waist is 25 inches, and hip size is 35 inches. Her shoe size 8 (US) and dress size is 4 (US).

Dia Mirza Biography, family, husband, marriage, height, weight details

Early life and Career:

Dia Mirza was born on 9th December 1981 in Hyderabad, Telangana, to a German father and an Indian mother. Her father, Frank Handrich, was a German Catholic who held many professions such as an artist, architect, and interior designer. Her mother, Deepa, is an Indian woman of Bengali descent, an interior designer. Initially, Dia possessed her father’s surname Handrich, but her parents divorced when she was four years old. Her mother then tied the knot with Ahmed Mirza, a Hyderabadi Muslim. Later, Dia adopted the surname Mirza and carried the same name henceforth.

Dia completed her primary education at Vidyaranya high school in Hyderabad, and later she switched to Nasr high school to gain higher secondary education. She decided to pursue her college studies in the arts stream and enrolled herself in Ambedkar Open University to pursue her undergraduate degree. She also started earning a side buck while pursuing her college studies by working as a Marketing executive for a media firm. Eventually, she was drawn into the world of modelling and glamour and started receiving modelling assignments for TV commercials. Her initial modelling projects happened to be for Lipton, Emami, Wall’s ice cream, and other reputed brands. After being crowned, she spotlighted the winner of the Miss Asia Pacific competition in the year 2000.

In 2000, she stepped into the Hindi film industry with the movie “Rehna hai Tere Dil Mein,” sharing the screen with R. Madhavan. Although it was not a commercial success at the box office, it still ranks as a respectable place when romantic movies are curated. The viewers are also loved by the viewers due to its riveting storyline and have a significant fan following today. Furthermore, she has delivered a lovely concoction of both successful and unsuccessful films to Bollywood, some of them being Deewanapan (2001), Tumsa Nahin Dekha (2004), Dus (2005), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), Honeymoon travels Pvt Ltd (2007), Krazzy 4 (2008), Jai Veeru (2009), Love Breakups Zindagi (2011), Salaam Mumbai (2016) and Sanju (2018).

Family Life

Apart from acting, she also launched herself as a film producer, in partnership with her love interest Sahil Sangha (Businessman and film producer). Their film banner came to be known as “Born Free Entertainment,” under which they produced the movie “Love Breakups Zindagi” (2011). Mirza tied the knot with Sahil Sangha in 2014. Before getting hitched to Sangha, her name had been linked to other Bollywood celebrities as well, some of which include Salman Khan, Vashu Bhagnani (Film producer), Kunal Kapoor (actor), and Bunty Sachdeva (musician). However, Dia and Saahil separated in the year 2019.

Dia has made stunning appearances in Web series, too, namely Kaafir and Mind the Malhotras. Her character in the web series Kaafir was much appreciated and admired. She has also launched her own production house by the name of “One India Stories” post her divorce from Sangha. Dia is a known name in the Bengal film industry too, where she made her first appearance in the year 2012, delivering the movie Paanch Adhyaay.

Lesser known facts about Dia Mirza:

1. Dia adopted her stepfather’s surname, Mirza.
2. Even after being raised in different ethnicities, Dia practices Hinduism.
3. During her days of struggle, she used to work as a Marketing executive and earned a monthly salary of ₹5000.
4. Her friends informed her about the Miss India contest by one of them, following which she appeared in the competition and ended up being the second runner-up.
5. Dia’s mother wanted her to pursue law at an esteemed law school in Bangalore. However, after being convinced by her stepfather, she allowed Dia to appear in the Miss India contest and continue in the modelling field.
6. Dia won the Miss Asia Pacific competition in 2000, marking India’s hattrick win at the competition, after Lara Dutta and Priyanka Chopra.
7. In the year 2000, she appeared in a video song “Khoya Khoya Chand” before making an appearance on the silver screen.
8. Dia is also involved in numerous humanitarian and social causes. She has an active involvement in the Cancer Patients Aid Association, PETA, NDTV, CRY, and Spastics Society of India.
9. She spreads awareness about HIV among people and also aims to prevent female infanticide.
10. She has a deep love for pets and has adopted two cheetah cubs from a zoological park in Lucknow.
11. A leopardess at the zoological park in Lucknow is named after Dia Mirza, as the zoo officials had rescued the leopardess from the town Mirzapur.

Dia Mirza movies list

Rehna hai tere Dil mein, Thappad, Sanju, Love Breakups Zindagi, Salaam Mumbai, Alag, Tumsa nahin Dekha, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Honeymoon travels Pvt. Ltd., Tehzeeb, Hum tum aur ghost, Deewanapan, Dus, Koi mere dil mein hai, Tumko Na Bhool payenge, Bobby Jasoos, Parineeta, Kurbaan, Dus Kahaniyan, Dum, Jai Veeru, Krazzy 4, Cash, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Naam Gum Jaye Ga, Kissan, Acid factory

Dia Mirza latest movie: Wild dog (Telugu)
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Dia Mirza new web series: Kaafir
Dia Mirza upcoming web series: Name not known

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