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Padma Lakshmi Bio
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Padma Parvati Lakshmi பத்மா பார்வதி லட்சுமி
Date of Birth: September 1, 1970
Horoscope Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Padma Parvati Lakshmi, (born September 1, 1970) is an Indian American cookbook author, actress, and model. She has been the host of the US reality television program Top Chef since season two. In 2010, Top Chef was nominated for an Emmy Award and won for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program. She speaks English, Hindi, Italian, and Spanish in addition to her mother tongue Tamil. Lakshmi was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She has a younger half-brother and a younger half-sister. Lakshmi went to Workman High School in the City of Industry, California. She is a 1992 graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, where she received a B.A. with honors in Theatre Arts. On April 17, 2004, in New York City, Lakshmi married the novelist Salman Rushdie. On July 2, 2007, the couple filed for divorce. Lakshmi’s career began at age 16, when she was discovered by a modeling agent in India while sitting in a café. She has modeled for top designers such as Emanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren, and Alberta Ferretti and appeared in ad campaigns for Roberto Cavalli and Versus. She was a favorite model of the photographer Helmut Newton, whose photographs of her often highlighted the large scar on her right arm. Lakshmi had a comical supporting role as the lip synching disco singer Sylk in the 2001 American movie Glitter with Mariah Carey. She starred with Amitabh Bachchan and Jackie Shroff in the 2003 Hindi action box office failure Boom as Shiela Bardez, one of a trio of super models accused of stealing diamonds. Lakshmi was last seen on screen as Geeta in Paul Mayeda Berges’ 2005 film The Mistress of Spices. Padma also guest appeared on an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise entitled Precious Cargo, along side Jolene Blalock in 2002. Her first cookbook Easy Exotic was awarded Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles. She was host of the Food Network series, Padma’s Passport, which was part of the larger series Melting Pot, in 2001. She also hosted two one-hour specials on India and Spain for the British culinary tourism show Planet Food, which have been broadcast on the Food Network in the US and internationally on the Discovery Channels. Her second cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet, was released October 2, 2007. -Wikipedia
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