Sakshi Tanwar was born on 12 January 1973 to Rajendra Singh Tanwar, a retired CBI officer, in a middle-class family from Alwar, Rajasthan, India. She was educated in many Kendriya Vidyalayas before graduating from Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi. Prior to this, in 1990, after completing her pre-university course, she worked as a sales trainee at a five-star hotel. In college, she was the secretary and president of the dramatic society. After graduation, while preparing for the entrance tests to the administrative services and mass communications, she gave an audition for the national broadcaster Doordarshan's film songs based program Albela Sur Mela in 1998; she was selected as the presenter.
Career
After her television debut in 1998 with Albela Sur Mela, Tanwar gained fame for her role of Parvati Agarwal in the soap opera, Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii. Between 2011 and 2014, she played Priya Kapoor, opposite Ram Kapoor, in Bade Achhe Lagte Hain. In December 2012, she made a second appearance on the reality show Kaun Banega Crorepati.
In the 2016 film Dangal, Tanwar played Daya Kaur, wife of former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat (played by Aamir Khan), who trains his daughters to be world-class wrestlers against social odds. Sakshi Tanwar made a comeback on television with Tyohaar Ki Thaali, first telecasted by Epic Channel in February 2018.
Personal life
In 2018, Sakshi became a single mother when she adopted a nine month old baby girl, Dityaa Tanwar.
FilmographyTelevisionFiction shows
2000–08 Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii as Parvati Agarwal / Swati Dixit/ Janki Devi Dixit
2001-2002 Kutumb as Maya Mittal
2003 Devi as Gayatri
2004 Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin as Indira Bhargav
2008 Bawandar (featured in one episode)
2008 Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki as Ganga
2010 Balika Vadhu as Teepri
2011–14 Bade Achhe Lagte Hain as Priya Ram Kapoor
2013 Ek Thhi Naayika (episodes #13 and #14) as Pooja
2014 Main Naa Bhoolungi as Narrator in first episode
2016 24: Season 2 as Shivani Malik
Non-fiction/reality shows
1998 Albela Sur Mela as the host
2005 Kaun Banega Crorepati 2 as guest contestant (along with Smriti Irani to promote Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii)
2009 Coffee House as herself
2010 Crime Patrol – Season 2 as the co-host cum narrator (along with Anup Soni)
2012 Kaun Banega Crorepati 6 as guest contestant (along with Ram Kapoor to promote Bade Achhe Lagte Hain)
2013 Kaun Banega Crorepati 7 as guest contestant (along with Ram Kapoor and Amrita Mukherjee to promote Bade Achhe Lagte Hain)
2015 Code Red as the host cum narrator
2017 Tyohaar Ki Thaali as the host cum narrator on Epic TV.
Feature-length films
2006 O re Manva as Sandhya
2008 C Kkompany as television actress (cameo role)
2009 Saluun as Sasiji
2009 Coffee House as Kavita
2011 Aatankwadi Uncle as Sumitra
2011 Bawra Mann as Pallavi
2015 Katyar Kaljat Ghusali as Nabila
2016 Dangal as Daya Kaur
2018 Mohalla Assi as Savitri
Web series
2017 Karrle Tu Bhi Mohabbat as Dr. Tripurasundari "Tipsy" Nagrajan (ALT Balaji)
2019 The Final Call as ATC Kiran Mirza (ZEE5)
2019 Mission Over Mars (Zee5/ALTBalaji)
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