Priyanka Chopra – Net Worth, Salary and Earnings

Priyanka Chopra’s net worth is $28 million.  Her husband Nick Jonas has a net worth of $25 million.  PC’s annual earnings stand at an estimated $10 million. Priyanka Chopra’s salary per movie in Bollywood is Rs.6 crore per film.

Apart from being a part of movies and TV shows, Priyanka Chopra has graced top-line magazine covers in India and US, including being the first Indian to be a part of Vogue America magazine cover. The Padma-Shri winner from India, also owns a production company called Pebble Pictures, which releases regional films. Priyanka Chopra is also an investor in the female-based dating app ‘Bumble’.

The rise of Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra is an Indian actress, a cross-over artiste who is also the first South Asian to make it big in mainstream America TV and Hollywood. She is also a film producer, singer, ex Miss World 2000 winner, entrepreneur and philanthropist. She has also been bestowed with several honors besides movie awards, like Padma Shri (fourth highest civilian award in India) and felicitations from Forbes and Time Magazine which have placed her among the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women and 100 Most Influential Women in the World, respectively.

Childhood and Growing Years

She was born on July 18, 1982 in Jamshedpur (Jharkhand, Bihar) to doctors Ashok Chopra and Madhu, both associated with Indian Army. She has a brother Siddharth, who is seven years younger to her, and is attached to the hotel industry. Her cousins Parineeti Chopra, Meera Chopra and Barbie Handa are all actress. Due to the defence background, she spent most of her schooling years traveling across parts of India. But she did most of her schooling from La Martiniere in Lucknow and St. Maria Goretti College in Bareilly. She loved her times in Bareilly so much that she considers it her home town.

At the age of 13, Priyanka traveled to Massachusetts (USA) to study, where she dabbled in theater, choir singing, Western classical music and Indian traditional dances. She admits to being a victim of racism and bullying. Priyanka adds, “I was a gawky child, with self-esteem issues. I came from a middle-class background and had white marks on my legs. But I continued working hard and now my legs sell twelve brands.”

After spending three years in US, she returned to India, where she completed the final years of her high school education in Bareilly. She participated in the local ‘May Queen’ beauty competition, which she won. Her mother egged her to participate in the Femina Miss India Contest 2000, in which she came second. Priyanka went on to win the Miss World Competition in 2000 at the age of 18, becoming the fifth Indian contestant to do so. She dropped the idea of doing college (her interest was criminal psychology), as she was flooded with movie offers.

Debut in movies

Priyanka Chopra debuted in the Tamil movie ‘Thamizhan’ in 2002. She debuted in the Hero, her first Bollywood movie in the same year, which was followed by another release ‘Andaaz’, which became her first hit. She was taken seriously an actress when her role as the seductress in ‘Aitraaz’ won her the Filmfare Award for the Best Actor in a Negative Role. Her biggest hits include Krrish, Don (both released in 2006), Fashion (2008), Barfi (2012), Krrish 3(2013) and Bajirao Mastani (2015).

Priyanka Chopra won National Award for the Best Actress for her performance in Fashion. She is a recipient of 5 Filmfare Awards – Andaaz (Debut Award), Aitraaz (Negative Role), Fashion (Best Actress),  7 Khoof Maaf (Critics Award for Best Actress) and Bajirao Mastani (Best Supporting Actress)  Her career-best performances include Fashion, 7 Khoof Maaf, Barfi!, Mary Kom, Bajirao Mastani and Dil Dhadakne Do.

Priyanka Chopra – Height (Comparison with Other Bollywood Actresses)

The actress has an average height of 1.68 meters or 5 feet 5 feet inches. Her height can be compared to Kareena Kapoor who is 5 feet 4 inches or 163 meters.

How did Priyanka Chopra become famous in America?

Priyanka Chopra had recorded a song with music directors Vishal-Shekhar, but the song lay unreleased. By the time, the word had got out that she was a natural singer. It so happend that Achariya Anjula, the celebrity manager based in US was looking at the prospect of turning her into a singer on a global level.  She checked with her contacts in India and found through music directors that she had indeed made a demo with Salim Sulaiman,  the Indian-based music director duo. The demo was passed on to David Joseph, CEO of Universal Music UK and record producer James Iovine. They were convinced that Priyanka had it in her to make it big in the world of music.

Anjula traveled to India with Joseph and Kronfeld (executive vice president at Universal Music International) to convince Priyanka to come and sing at the studio. Once, Priyanka sang at the studio, the group was sure that Priyanka was the one.

In 2011, Universal Music Group signed PC for a worldwide music recording agreement with a company called Desihits. According to the deal, her first studio album would be released by Interscope Records in the US and parts of North America and Island Records in other countries.

In February 2012, Priyanka was signed up with Creative Artists Agency, one of the top Hollywood casting agencies.  The director of Desihits, David Tagioff represented her, in the Los Angeles-based company.

At the same time, Anshula felt that Priyanka, being an accomplished actress in India, could be more than just a pop star in the US.

Priyanka was now going to US to work for her album, which would be produced by RedOne. Her first single ‘In My City’ debuted on September 13, 2012 in the US.  While the song was unsucessful in the US, it was a big commerical hit in India. She also featured in an EDM song by producer duo, The Chainsmokers, called ‘Erase’.

In July 2013, Priyanka released her second single ‘Exotic’ featuring American rapping sensation, Pitbull. It ended up peaking at number 12 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. Priyanka’s third single ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ released on April 2014 and peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs  countdown.

How Priyanka Chopra bagged Quantico

Priyanka said in an interview that she was felt welcome by America. She added that in various parties like Grammy’s that she would attend, she would be asked as to why she didn’t work in the US. She said that a VP of a broadcasting network, at a party, asked her if she was interested in doing American Television. Since it was a long-term commitment, PC told her that she had doubts if she could do justice. But the VP came all the way to India to assure her that it could be worked out.

Priyanka, however, was clear that she didn’t want to do roles, wherein she would play a Punjabi or a nerd. She didn’t particularly like the way, Indians or South Asians would be cast in Amerian shows and movies as nothing but cliched players of a fat, Punjabi family. So, she made it clear that she wouldn’t do any program that resembled an NRI set-up or a Punjabi wedding.

Out of the 26 scripts that she went through, Priyanka liked the role of an FBI officer, a half-Indian battling her demons.  There was initially a discussion if the name could be Indian, but she was clear that she would stick to the American name. In her words, “Every Sunday, I had to convince America that I was an American’.

Priyanka Chopra was signed by ABC Studios for an American thriller series, Quantico. When it premiered on September 27, 2015, PC became the first South Asian to cast as a main protagonist for an American drama TV show. The series won positive reviews from the critics and Priyanka was given a thumbs-up for her performance.

Priyanka even won the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Actress in a New TV series for her performance in Quantico. She became the first South Asian to be bestowed with this honor.  Quantico also won Priyanka Chopra, her second People’s Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic TV Actress. However, the show was cancelled after three seasons in 2018.

How Priyanka Chopra made it in Hollywood

With the stupendous response for her show Quantico, Priyanka Chopra was signed in a negative role for the slapstick comedy ‘Baywatch’ in 2017.  The movie co-starred big names like Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron. Though the movie was a resounding flop in the US, it got good response in India and also in web platforms.

Priyanka Chopra also bagged a supporting role in a movie called  ‘A Kid Like Jake’ (2018) a movie on gender conformity, starring  Jim Parsons and Clarie Danes. She also signed a romantic movie called ‘Isn’t it Romantic’ starring Liam Hemsworth, Adam DeVine and Rebel Wilson. About her roles in Hollywood, Priyanka says that she is not having a dad in Hollywood who would choose great roles for her. She says that she has to build opportunities on her own accord.

Philanthropy

Among numerous charitable activities, Priyanka Chopra is the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights, since 2006. She is known to be a part of several causes which include gender equality, enviroment, health, education and women’s rights.  She also heads her own social foundation called ‘The Priyanka Chopra Foundation for Health and Education, which works to support and aid needy children especially in the field of health and education. Priyanka is known to donate 10 percent of her earnings to her Foundation, and is reported to have sponsored education of 70 children in India, 50 of them being girls.

 

Priyanka Chopra’s boyfriend during her Miss World days was Aseem Merchant. She was then reported to be in relationship with Harman Baweja and Shahid Kapoor. There were a lot of rumors in the media that would talk about her relationship with Bollywood superstar,  Shah Rukh Khan.

Marriage to Nick Jonas

Priyanka dated American singer and song-writer Nick Jonas by the end of 2017. He proposed to her for marriage in London on her birthday, July 18, 2018. The couple were engaged in Mumbai on August 18 and then married on December 1,at Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur, India. Chopra is older to Jonas, by 10 years. Priyanka said that one of the main things that really connected the two were family values

 

 

Houses

Priyanka Chopra has bought several properties in Mumbai and Goa. She has homes in Lokhandwala and Oshiwara in Andheri (Mumbai). She has rented a few properties for commercial uses in Mumbai.  In India, Priyanka Chopra mainly stays in Raj Classic in Andheri Versova, which she bought in 2008. Income Tax officials in 2011 stated that Priyanka Chopra has nine apartments; five of them are in Raj Classic on Yari Road. Here, she has turned three flats into one and has interconnected two of them.

In 2014, Priyanka Chopra bought a dream house – sea-facing vintage house in Versova, which costs Rs. 100 crores (USD 16 milion). It has 15 bedrooms and will be used mostly for commercial purposes, for shooting and celebrity parties by Zoom. The bungalow that abounds in vintage architecture was built in 1930 by British architect Claude Batley for a rich textile merchant, Maneklala Chunilal Chinai. Priyanka also hopes to buy another bungalow, Mayur Mahal in Juhu, which will be used for movie and ad shooting purposes.

Priyanka Chopra – House in US with Nick Jonas

In October 2018, Nick Jonas bought a Beverly Hills mansion in Los Angeles for him and wife Priyanka Chopra. The property is woorth $6.5 million.  The house includes five bedrooms, four bathrooms, an outdoor pool, fantastic views of the canyon sprawled acros 4,130 square feet.

 

 

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Cars

 

Priyanka Chopra has an enviable collection of cars which include the Rolls Royce, Porsche Cayenne, Mercedes Benz E Class, Mercedes S-Class and BMW 5 Series. She also owns a pink Harley Davidson bike.

 

Trivia

Priyanka’s brother  Siddharth is seven years younger than her. In 2014, he opened a restaurant in the form of a pub lounge in Puna, in partnership with Yug Tuli. The name of the restaurant is The Mugshot Lounge, wherein the challenge is for customers to consume a certain number of beers and shots within a particular time-frame after which the winner’s photo is posted on the ‘Mugshot Wall of Fame’.

Priyanka Chopra is distinguished to be the first Indian actress to feature in a school text book, her life is documented in a chapter of Roving Families, a book at Springdales School.

Her handbag contains a tube of hand-cream, two perfume brands, a wallet, Tabasco hot sauce and sun glasses.

One of her besties include Meghan Markle.