Ileana D'Cruz simplly known as Ileana is a famouse South Indian film actress. She originally hails from Mumbai, India, had grown up in Mumbai and currently resides at Goa.
Ileana D'Cruz was born on 1st November 1987 in Mumbai. Her nick name is Ili, Ilu,Yana, Liyana.
Her father Ronaldo Leo is a Roman Catholic is a lawyer by profession while her mother Sameera, is a Muslim. Her father named her Ileana, a Greek name. She has two sisters named Farah, Erene and a brother Reece.
She completed her high school studies at St.Mary's Convent High School, Mapusa, Goa. she likes her family a lot, an absolute practical and sharp person with interests in swimming and reading sidney sheldon books chandra sekhar.
Before films, Ileana was modelling for quite some time and doing ads.
She made her debuted in the Telugu language film Devadasu in 2006 directed by Y.V.S. Chowdhary who spotted her in a Fair and Lovely ad film directed by Rakesh Roshan. The film went on to being a huge success at the box-office and Ileana attracted a lot of attention for her sensitive portrayal in the film.
Her breakthrough came with her second Telugu film where she essayed the role of Shruti, an innocent girl haunted by a corrupt police officer opposite Mahesh Babu in the immensely successful Pokiri. The film not only gained her good reviews about her good display of innocence and glamour in the film but also gave her terrific reach and penetration among audiences. Her chemistry with Mahesh was the cynosure of all eyes. The film went on to being the biggest hit in Tollywood history.
She then made her Tamil language film debut alongside Ravi Krishna in Kedi. Although the film did not do so well at the box-office,
Ileana was sought after by many directors an actors in Tamil for films which she eventually rejected due to her commitments in Telugu.
She also appeared in Kannada film "Huduga Hudugi" in 2010 and Bollywood film "Ek- The power of one".
Most of the films she acted have been hits. She holds the top rung of heroines in Telugu.
Recently, there was news that she committed suicide in Goa and the reason was tagged to be a love failure. According to film nagar sources there is a talk that Ileana is a pregnant that is why she had been to Hospital to remove the pregnancy, the same was rumored even in the past.
With quite a number of big projects in her kitty, Ileana is already being touted as one of the `next big faces'.
Ileana is now making a foray into Kannada films by accepting to do an item song in Indrajeet Lokesh directed film titled “Thunta Thunti”. Though this just an item song, she is said to be hoping to gain the attention of Kannada cinema audience.
Ileana awarded "Filmfare Best Female Debut" (South) for her first movie "Devadasu" and "Santosham Best Actress Award" for her appearence in Jalsa movie.
She is considered as a hardworking and sincere actress. In one of the interviews to a TV channel, Mahesh babu himself praised her talents and co-operation in the sets.