Yana Gupta Date of birth-23.04.1979 Birth place- Czechoslovakia
Birth name –Yana Synkova
Height -5’8” (1.73m)
Language known- English, Czech, Hindi, Spanish and Japanese.
Education qualification - graduation in Park Architecture and Gardening
Occupation –Acting and Modeling
Best known as- Popular model for Lakme cosmetics
Spouse-Satyakama Gupta(separated)
Yana Gupta is one of the leading actress in Bollywood. She also well-known model. She appeared on magazine covers, like Elle, Femina, Cosmopolitan and Maxima. She has modeled for top company like Calvin Klein, Victoria's Secret, Toyota, Honda, Sony, and cosmetic products such as Nivea, Rexona, Shuemura, & Shisheido.she is also famous in Bollywood as ITEM GIRL.
Early family life. Most of the people misunderstand that she originated from East India. But she was born in Brno, Crech Republic on 23 April 1979 to a Czech parent.
She completed her graduation in Park Architecture and Gardening.
Yana married an Indian artist satyakam gupta, but now they are separated.
Career. Yana started her model career in early 1990s.wen she was at the age of 16 and she did rouse considerable curiosity due to her unique last name, and her European looks. For these modeling she is well-known to corner of the world, Yana, has been modeling since the age of 16, worked in Milan, Paris and Vienna, even working on brands like Nivea and Shiseido before settling India, where her husband is based.
After marriage, Yana continued modeling in Mumbai with Limca, MTV and Lakme. At the same time she entered in to Bollywood with an ITEM in Dum for the song ‘Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo’.
This is made her famous for ITEM and she is the first Western Caucasian woman to successfully crossover into the Indian film industry. After that she appeared in sandalwood movie Jogi song, she also appeared in Telugu and Tamil films. Ek Ajnabee is another Bollywood Movie.
She also played the role of Television anchor on the Zoom TV’s Mirch Masala show, where she danced to famous dance numbers.
Yaana Gupta recently signed up with famous mobile and PC games company Indiagames as brand ambassador.
She has featured on the ‘Back Undu da influence’, ‘Charagi’ and ‘Groundshaker2’she also well performed in Tamil film Anniyan’s ‘Kadal yani’ song and Adatanam from Telugu movie Gharshana. She was named the new face for Lakme cosmetics in 2001, replacing its former model Lisa Ray.
*She has been taking dance classes since 14years.
*She appeared in second season of a show called 'Khatron Ke Khiladi', an Indian version of Fear Factor. She was eliminated in episode 7 and then reinstated in episode 8, and eliminated again in episode 14.
*Amongst her hobbies are playing the piano, the flute, dancing, aerobics, health, fitness, and computers. She is a pure vegetarian.
Yaana now divorced with Satyakama, although she does plan to remain in India, where she will be launching her very own album in English. After the completion of this project, Yana may consider entering Bollywood movies.
Controversies
Indian Media made a huge buzz about paparazzi pictures taken of Yaana at a charity event in Mumbai, wearing no innerwear. Yana Gupta, the photographer who clicked those photos and the organizer of the event, Sushila Nirali have been sued for the 'pantyless stunt'.
