Yami Gautam is a Bollywood actress and model. She was born on 28 November 1988 in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh. Her sun sign is Sagittarius. Yami grew up in Chandigarh. She completed her schooling from Yadvendra Public School, Chandigarh. She was pursuing a degree in law from Punjab University, Chandigarh, but she dropped out of college.

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Her father, Mukesh Gautam was a Punjabi film director and the Vice President of PTC Punjabi Channel. Her mother, Anjali Gautam is a homemaker. She has a younger brother, Ojas Gautam, and a younger sister, Surilie Gautam.

Yami is married to Aditya Dhar. He is a film director.

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Yami’s favourites

She likes to eat rajma chawal, and pizza. Tea is her favourite hot beverage.

Her favourite actors are Amir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Jessica Alba, Tyra Banks, and Madhuri Dixit.

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Yami loves watching the films, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, and Titanic.

She admires the works by directors, Shoojit Sircar, Raju Hirani, Imtiaz Ali, Sriram Raghvan, and Neeraj Pandey.

Her favourite book is ‘Living the Dream’ by Mark Bennington.

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Her favourite fashion designers are Rocky Star, Sabyasachi Mukherjee and Masaba Gupta.

Her favourite fragrance is Forever and Ever by Dior.

She loves wearing the colours, black, red and white.

She owns an Audi A4 car.

Interesting facts about Yami

In an interview, Yami shared that as a kid she was very timid and introverted. She was also a bright student in her school.

Yami Gautam does yoga daily to maintain her fitness.

She has received training in pole dancing.

During her college years, she wanted to become an IAS officer. She participated in many activities and her interest in the acting field piqued. She dropped out of her university to pursue a career in acting.

Yami’s modelling assignments

At the age of 20, she moved to Mumbai with dreams of becoming an actor.

She worked as a model for a few years. She appeared in an advertisement for ‘Glow and Lovely’ (formerly, Fair and Lovely) and from there she started receiving many film offers.

Yami has worked for brands like Cornetto, Samsung Mobile, Chevrolet and Revlon.

Yami’s TV serials

In the year 2008, she did her first project as an actress and appeared in the television serial ‘Chand Ke Par Chalo’.

After that, she was seen in TV shows, ‘Rajkumar Aryan’ and ‘Yeh Pyaar Na Hoga Kam’.

Yami Gautam participated as a contestant in the reality TV shows ‘Meethi Churi No 1’ (2010) and ‘Kitchen Champion’ (2010).

Yami’s Bollywood debut

In the year 2012, Yami Gautam started her Bollywood film career with the role of 'Ashima Roy' in the Bollywood film ‘Vicky Donor’. The male lead of the film was Ayushmann Khurrana.

Yami and Ayushmann were friends even before working together for the film.

Apart from Bollywood, Yami has also worked in films from various languages like Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.

Yami has been featured on the covers of many popular magazines like, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Brunch, and Brides.

Yami’s personal life

In an interview, she shared that the first film she watched in the cinema was ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’.

She is a nature lover and has set up her own greenhouse and organic garden at her home in Himachal Pradesh.

In 2021, Yami revealed about a skin condition that she was suffering from. In an Instagram post, she disclosed that she has been suffering from ‘Keratosis Pilaris’ since she was a teenager.

On 4 June 2021, Yami tied the knot with Aditya Dhar, a film director.

Yami’s filmography

Some of Yami’s popular films are, Action Jackson (2014), Batti Gul Meter Chalu (2018), Junooniyat (2016), Sarkar 3 (2017), Total Siyapaa (2014), Badlapur (2015), Bala (2019), Lost (2022), Sanam Re (2016), Kaabil (2017), A Thursday (2022), Dasvi (2022), and Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019).

Yami’s latest films

Yami starred in the film ‘Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga’. It was a thriller drama and released on the OTT platform on 24 March 2023. Her co-actor was Sunny Kaushal.

Her latest film ‘OMG 2’ released in the theatres on 11 August 2023. She was seen with Aksay Kumar, Pankaj Tripathi and Arun Govil.

Awards

In the year 2012, she was awarded the 5th Boroplus Gold Award for her role in the Bollywood film 'Vicky Donor'.

The same year, she was awarded the Big Star Entertainment Award for Most Entertaining Actor Debut Female for the film 'Vicky Donor'.

In 2012, Yami was in the list of Most Desirable Women by Times.

In 2013, she was honoured with the IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year Female for the film 'Vicky Donor'.

In 2020, she received the 'Star Screen Award' for Best Comedy Actress for the film 'Bala'.