Happy birthday to Yami Gautam, Indian model and actress, born on November 28, 1988, in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, India. Her father Mukesh is a Punjabi film director. Yami started her career as a model for Fair & Lovely commercials. From there she appeared in television shows and some films from South India. Yami made her Bollywood debut in 2012 as the girlfriend of a sperm donor in the surprise hit ‘Vicky Donor’. She won a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her portrayal. She followed this with ‘Total Siyapaa’ as an Indian who wants to marry a Pakistani guy. Other Hindi film appearances are a young wife who dies tragically in ‘Badlapur’ (2015) co-starring Varun Dhawan, a heart-transplant patient in ‘Sanam Re’ and as a blind woman in ‘Kaabil’ (2017) co-starring Hrithik Roshan.  In 2019, Yami played a nurse/intelligence agent in ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’, one of the highest-grossing Indian films ever, and a balding man’s wife in ‘Bala’, which was also very successful. Yami can currently be seen on Netflix in ‘Ginny Weds Sunny’ (2020), a romantic comedy.