Anushka Sharma. was born to an army based family in Bangalore. Her father, Col. Ajay Kumar Sharma, is an military officer and her mother Ashima Sharma is a housewife. Anuskha fundamentally belongs from uttrakhand, she is of garhwali origin. She has an senior brother named Karnesh, who was a state-level cricketer and is now in the Merchant Navy. She studied in Army School and graduated with specialization in arts from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.
Sharma says she initially wanted to make it big in the modeling world but had no strong aspirations for movies. She started her modeling profession at the Lakme Fashion Week as a model for Wendell Rodricks Les Vamps Exhibition and was picked to be Rodricks’s finale model at the Spring Summer ’07 Collection. Since then she has done campaigns for Silk & Shine, Whisper, Nathella Jewelry and Fiat Palio.
