Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on September 1st, 1970 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 53, Padma Lakshmi biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 53 years old, Padma Lakshmi has this physical status:
Career
In effect, Lakshmi began modeling at age 21, when a modeling agent discovered Lakshmi while studying abroad in Madrid. "I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan, and New York," she said. I'm the first one to admit that I was a novelty." By acting as a model and actress, Lakshmi was able to pay off her college loans.
She has worked with designers such as Emanuel Ungaro, Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren, and Alberta Ferretti, and has appeared in ad campaigns for Roberto Cavalli and Versus. She was a favorite model of photographer Helmut Newton, whose photographs of her often highlighted the large scar on her right arm.
Lakshmi has appeared on the front pages of Redbook, Vogue India, FHM, Cosmopolitan, L'Officiel India, Asian Woman, Elle, Avenue, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, and Newsweek. She also took the liberty issue of Allure in May 2009.
Mario Testino and Helmut Newton have shot.
Lakshmi is the current host and one of the judges on the television show Top Chef. The show has been nominated for the Outstanding Reality-Complement Award from season 2 to season 19, with season 6 winning the award in 2010.
She also acts as an executive producer on the show. In 2009 and 2020 for Top Chef, Lakshmi was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program. Lakshmi received three Critics' Choice Awards for Top Chef in 2020.
Lakshmi is also the creator, host, and executive producer of Taste the Country with Padma Lakshmi, which premiered on Hulu on June 18, 2020 and was named with the Gotham Award for Best Culinary Show and a Critic's Choice Award. Taste the Country was awarded 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Taste the Country: Holiday Edition, a Hulu special, was released in 2021. Lakshmi extends and rewrites the meaning of American food in Taste the Country. In June 2022, Lakshmi was given her first James Beard Foundation Award for Taste the Country: Holiday Edition.
In 1997, Lakshmi appeared as a host of Domenica In, Italy's top-rated television show, for the first time. She appeared on Food Network's Passport, which was part of the larger series Melting Pot in 2001, where she created dishes from around the world. On the Food Network in the United States and internationally on the Discovery Channels, she hosted two one-hour specials in South India and Spain for the British culinary tourism show Planet Food.
Lakshmi was also a contributing contributor for season 19 of The View from 2015 to 2016. In an episode of TBS' Drop the Mic that aired on December 26, 2017, she competed and won over music producer Randy Jackson. "A special that honors the rich diversity of Asian and Pacific Islander groups as part of Sesame Workshop's continuing racial justice campaign" has appeared on See Us Coming Together.
In the Italian pirate films The Son of Sandokan and Caraibi (Pirates: Blood Brothers), she appeared in her first film roles. In the 2001 American film Glitter, starring Mariah Carey, she had a comedic supporting role as the lipsynching disco singer Sylk. In 2002, Lakshmi made a guest appearance in "Precious Cargo," the 37th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise. Madhuvanthi was the protagonist of the TV show Sharpe's Challenge, which aired in 2006). Princess Bithia appeared in ABC's Biblical TV series The Ten Commandments in 2006. In 2009, Lakshmi appeared in the video for the Eels' "That Look You Give That Guy" (that Looks Like A Guy).
She appeared in the 2003 Bollywood film Boom, alongside Katrina Kaif and Madhu Sapre, as one of three supermodels accused of stealing diamonds. In Paul Mayeda Berges' 2005 film The Mistress of Spices, she appeared as Geeta. In 2009, Lakshmi appeared on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and made a guest appearance on NBC's 30 Rock. In 2014, there were 104 million visitors on the internet.
At the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Versailles, Lakshmi's first book, Easy Exotic, a collection of international recipes and short essays, was named as the Best First Book. Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet, her second book, was released on October 2, 2007 and was named one of Apple's Best Books of 2021. On International Women's Day, March 8, 2016, her first book, Love, Losses, and What We Ate, was published. The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs, Lakshmi's third book, an encyclopedia, and reference guide, was published on October 4, 2016. Tomatoes for Neela, her first children's book, and illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal, debuted fourth on The New York Times best-seller list on August 31, 2021.
Lakshmi also contributed to The Best American Travel Writing 2021, a collection of essays from well-known travel writers, written in 2021 by Lakshmi.
Lakshmi wrote an article on style for Vogue's American edition, as editor Anna Wintour's request. Following editor Glenda Bailey's commission, she wrote a column on style for Harper's Bazaar (both UK and US editions).