Claudia Ciesla

Claudia Ciesla (born 12 February 1987) is a Polish-German model and actress. She is most prominent in playing roles in Bollywood. She was a contestant in Bigg Boss 3.

Early life

Born in Wodzisław Śląski, Poland, part of Silesia. Her father is Polish, her mother is German and she has two older sisters.

Modelling career

Claudia Ciesla started modeling at the age of 15 working for shows involved in fashion and dancing.

In March 2006, Ciesla won a subscribers poll on the internet websites of Auto Bild, Bild, Sat.1, T-Online 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 Claudia Ciesla was representing the snowrichest tourist Ski-Village in the World, Damüls, 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.

Acting career

Claudia posing for a photo shoot by the poolside

In 2007 and again in 2008 she was appearing on the German Internet soap opera Beach House, playing Daisy Vandenburg. The New Indian Express reported that Ciesla is acting in a Bollywood film Karma along with leads Carlucci Weyant, Alma Saraci as part of an international filmcrew 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.

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

Bollywood

Claudia Ciesla was the Brand Ambassador of the "Lovely Professional University". The LPU University also honoured her as "New promising foreign face in India". She also visited Thapar University 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, Alyque Padamsee, Rahul Bose, Remo Fernandes and M S Swaminathan.

Ciesla was at the Bigg Boss house in the third season of the reality show Bigg Boss (Season 3). It began airing on 4 October 2009 on Colors 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 Claudia attended the TV show Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout shot in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the Indian celebrity version of Wipeout with Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan as the host. The show ended on February 25, 2011 with Kushal Punjabi as the winner, while Claudia Ciesla was the runner-up by 51 seconds, to come in second place.

Claudia Ciesla has done her first item song "Balma" sharing screen space with Akshay Kumar in his film Khiladi 786. The song is composed by Himesh Reshammiya and the dancing is choreographed by Ganesh Acharya.

Claudia Ciesla has recently appeared in the third part of a successful Bollywood franchise, Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3.

Filmography

Claudia in a photoshoot

Year	Film	Role	Language	Country
2007	Beach House	Daisy Vandenburg	German	Germany
2008	Karma	Linda	English	United Kingdom
2008	Outsiders in Palermo	Claudia	Italian	Italy
2008	10:10	Serin	Bengali	India
2012	Yaar Pardesi	Anna	Punjabi	India
2012	Khiladi 786	Special Appearance in song "balma"	Hindi	India
2013	@ Andheri		Malayalam	India
2014	Desi Kattey	Special Appearance in item song Patne Wali Hoon	Hindi	India
2016	Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3	Shakuntala (Sakku)	Hindi	India