Padma Lakshmi, Model, - Biography
Actress, Model, Writer, TV Host
Height 5 foot 10
Born 1970 Chennai,
Tamil Nadu, India
Career milestones
Easy Exotic (1999)
Padma's
Passport (2001)
Boom (2003)
Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
Top Chef (2006-2007)
Padma Lakshmi is a New York-based Indian American model, actress &
award-winning cookbook author. Starting with season two, she has been the host
of the reality television program Top Chef. Her first name literally means "lotus"
in Sanskrit; Lakshmi is the name of the Hindu goddess of wealth.
Her cookbook
Easy Exotic was awarded Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles.
She was host of the Food Network series, Padma's Passport, which is part of the
larger series Melting Pot. She has also been a guest host on parts of the British
culinary tourism show Planet Food. She hosted the segments on India & Spain.
Other notable television roles include a guest appearance as an imperious princess
in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. She was host of Domenica In, Italy's top-rated
television show. She also starred in Glitter with Mariah Carey & in Boom with
Amitabh Bachchan. In 2006 she starred in ABC's The Ten Commandments with Dougray
Scott, Naveen Andrews, & Omar Sharif. She played Sean Bean's nemesis in the
iTV film Sharpe's Challenge. She is a graduate of Clark University in Worcester,
Massachusetts, where she majored in Theater Arts. She married novelist Salman
Rushdie in Manhattan, New York in 2004. She is a Hindu.
Modeling career
Lakshmi's
career began when she was discovered while sitting in a cafe by a high-profile
modeling agent in Spain. Ever since then, she has walked for top designers such
as Emmanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren, & Alberta Ferretti & done ad campaigns
for Roberto Cavalli & Versus.
Selected filmography
Year Title
Genre Role
1994 Unzipped Documentary (High Fashion) Herself
1997 Linda
e il brigadiere
ep: Il fratello di Linda TV Series (Italian, Comedy) "Indian
Lady"
1998 Figlio di Sandokan, Il TV Series (Italian, Drama) N/A
1999
Caraibi TV Series (Italian, Adventure) Malinche
2000 Planet Food Documentary
(Cooking) Host
2001 Glitter Film (US, Drama) Sylk
2001 Melting Pot: Padma's
Passport TV Series (US, Cooking) Host
2002 Star Trek: Enterprise
ep: Precious
Cargo TV Series (US, Sci-Fi) Kaitaama
2003 Boom Film (Indian, Drama) Shiela
Bardez
2005 The Mistress of Spices Film (Indian, Drama) Geeta
2006 The
Ten Commandments TV Series (US, Biblical) Princess Bithia
2006 Sharpe
ep: Sharpe's Challenge TV Movie (Action/History/War) Madhuvanthi
2006 Top
Chef 2 TV Series (US, Reality/Cooking) Host
This
Site was written in May 2007
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