Claudia Ciesla is a Polish-born German actress and model who works mainly in the Indian

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.Claudia Ciesla Featured Model Interview
4 January 2005 She was a contestant on the Indian reality television series ''

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''.

Early life

Ciesla was born in

Wodzisław Śląski Wodzisław Śląski (; german: Loslau, cs, Vladislav, la, Vladislavia, yi, וואידסלוב, Voydislav, szl, Władźisłůw) is a city in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland with 47,992 inhabitants (2019). It is the seat of Wodzisław Cou ...

Katowice Voivodeship Katowice Voivodeship () can refer to one of two political entities in Poland: Katowice Voivodeship (1), initially "Silesian-Dabrowa Voivodeship" ( pl, województwo śląsko-dąbrowskie), was a unit of administrative division and local government ...

Polish People's Republic The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million ne ...

(now

Silesian Voivodeship Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province ( pl, województwo śląskie ) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ('), with Katowice serving as its capital. Despite the Silesian V ...

, Republic of Poland). Her father is a Clinicia psychologist and is of Polish descent and her mother, is an architect and is of German descent.

Career

Modelling and acting career

Ciesla started modeling at the age of 15 working for shows involved in fashion and dancing.casting-agentur.de Interview mit dem Model Claudia Ciesla, 09. November 2007
In March 2006, Ciesla won a subscribers poll on the internet websites of ''

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and Kabeleins to give her first place as ''Germany's Super Girl'' 2006. In November 2007 she told in an interview, that she plans after her modelling career to become a tax consultant. In the touristic season of 2007–2008 Ciesla was representing the snowrichest tourist Ski-Village in the World,

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, Austria, as the ''Snow Queen 2008'' and was showing up for various events, promotional appearances and photo shoots for magazines, advertising and brochures including a cover shoot for the magazine “MOTOR-Freizeit and TRENDS“ in Austria. In 2007 and again in 2008 she was appearing on the German Internet soap opera ''Beach House'', playing Daisy Vandenburg. ''

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'' reported that Ciesla is acting in a

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film ''

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'' along with leads Carlucci Weyant, Alma Saraci as part of an international film crew to be filmed in India. Film Director M.S. Shahjahan mentioned in an interview that there will be more assignments for Ciesla in Bollywood. In July 2008 Ciesla played "Claudia" in the Italian television sitcom ''Outsiders in Palermo'', shot in Palermo. Klaudia Cieśla 1419

She played the role of a German journalist in the film '' 10:10'' (directed by "Arin Paul"), together with Soumitra Chatterjee. Ciesla was the Brand Ambassador of the "

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". LPU also honoured her as "New promising foreign face in India". She also visited

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for promotion of her Punjabi film during their technical fest Aranya. On 26 November 2009, Ciesla was awarded with the prestigious Karmaveer Puraskaar, which is iCONGO’s National People’s Award for Social Justice and Action, honouring concerned citizens who have led change. Past recipients of the Karmaveer Puraskar include Kajol,

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and M S Swaminathan.

Bigg Boss and Bollywood entry

Ciesla participated in the reality show ''

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''. It began airing on 4 October 2009 on

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with Amitabh Bachchan as the host. This was her first brush with Indian reality TV. She was evicted on day 68, after spending 10 weeks on the show. In December 2010 Ciesla attended the TV show '' Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout'' shot in

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, Argentina. It is the Indian celebrity version of ''Wipeout'' with

actor Shah Rukh Khan as the host. The show ended on 25 February 2011 with

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as the winner, while Ciesla was the runner-up by 51 seconds, to come in second place. Ciesla made her first mainstream appearance in 2012, when she did the item song "Balma", sharing screen space with

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in his film ''

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''. The song is composed by Himesh Reshammiya and the dance is choreographed by Ganesh Acharya. In 2016, she appeared in the third part of the successful Bollywood franchise ''Kyaa Kool Hain Hum'' film series, titled '' Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3''. She was last seen dancing on a peppy number alongside Krushna Abhishek in the film

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Filmography

Television

Personal life

Ciesla was born an

Ashkenazic Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...

devotee of

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, though converted to

Hinduism Hinduism () is an Indian religion or '' dharma'', a religious and universal order or way of life by which followers abide. As a religion, it is the world's third-largest, with over 1.2–1.35 billion followers, or 15–16% of the global p ...

in 2009, after developing interest in Hindu culture and

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. She is a self-proclaimed adherent of

Lord Ganesha Ganesha ( sa, गणेश, ), also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon and is the Supreme God in Ganapatya sect. His image is found throughout India. Hindu ...

and is a Karma believer.

References

External links

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