Ananya Panday

Ananya Panday Biography

Personal Details

• Full Name: Ananya Panday
• Date of Birth: 30 October 1998
• Birthplace: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Nationality: Indian
• Occupation: Actress
• Years Active: 2019–present
• Parents: Chunky Panday (father, actor), Bhavana Pandey (mother, costume designer)
• Sibling: Rysa Panday (younger sister)

Education – Ananya Panday

• School: Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai, which she attended until 2017.
• Panday did not go on to university. Asked whether she had missed out on higher education, she has said she treats film sets as her film school.

Ananya Panday – Career Highlights

• 2019 – Made her acting debut in the Dharma Productions teen film Student of the Year 2, opposite Tiger Shroff and Tara Sutaria. The film did not do well at the box office.
• 2019 – Played the other woman in Pati Patni Aur Woh, opposite Kartik Aaryan and Bhumi Pednekar. With a worldwide gross of about ₹1.15 billion it was a commercial success.
• 2020 – Won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her work in both Student of the Year 2 and Pati Patni Aur Woh.
• 2020 – Starred in the action film Khaali Peeli opposite Ishaan Khatter, released digitally on Zee Plex.
• 2022 – Featured in the romantic drama Gehraiyaan alongside Deepika Padukone and Siddhant Chaturvedi, released on Amazon Prime Video. Her performance drew some of the best notices of her career to that point.
• 2022 – Acted in Puri Jagannadh’s bilingual action film Liger with Vijay Deverakonda, a critical and commercial failure.
• 2023 – Played a brief role as Ayushmann Khurrana’s love interest in Dream Girl 2, one of the year’s highest-grossing Hindi films.
• 2023 – Starred in the Netflix coming-of-age drama Kho Gaye Hum Kahan with Siddhant Chaturvedi and Adarsh Gourav, winning a Filmfare OTT Award in the critics’ category.
• 2024 – Made her web-series debut as an ostracised fashion influencer in the Amazon Prime Video comedy Call Me Bae, produced by Karan Johar, and won a Filmfare OTT Award for it.
• 2024 – Led Vikramaditya Motwane’s screenlife thriller CTRL for Netflix, about an influencer targeted by a malicious AI app.
• 2025 – Returned to theatrical cinema with Kesari Chapter 2, a courtroom drama set against the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, playing a lawyer who assists Akshay Kumar’s C. Sankaran Nair. The film was a moderate commercial success.
• 2025 – Reunited with Kartik Aaryan for the romantic comedy Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri, which failed at the box office.
• 2026 – Starred opposite Lakshya in the romantic drama Chand Mera Dil, produced by Karan Johar, which also failed commercially.

Ananya Panday – Recent Activities

• Attached to the second season of Call Me Bae, again with Karan Johar.
• Named in 2025 to Forbes Asia’s 30 Under 30 list.
• Named in 2025 as the first Indian global ambassador for Chanel, and featured the same year in The Business of Fashion’s BoF 500 list.
• Featured in 2026 on The Hollywood Reporter India’s Women in Entertainment Power List.
• Runs So Positive, an anti-cyberbullying initiative she launched in 2019, which was named Initiative of the Year at that year’s Economic Times Awards.

Awards List Ananya Panday