Daisy Shah

Daisy Shah (born August 25, 1992) is an Indian model, dancer and film actress. She has worked as an assistant to choreographer Ganesh Acharya for 10 years. She made her acting debut as a special appearance guest in the 2010 bilingual action thriller Vandae Maatharam, but her first breakthrough came when she was roped to play the lead role in the 2011 Kannada film Bodyguard. She then appeared opposite Salman Khan in the 2014 Bollywood film Jai Ho. In 2015 acted in a bold role in Hate Story 3 .

Shah belongs to Gujarati family but was born in Maharashtra. She worked as an assistant to choreographer Ganesh Acharya in films like Zameen and Khakee and later started modelling, doing photo shoots and print ads. Kannada director Harsha approached her for the film Chingari. She played Ammu in the Kannada version of Bodyguard. She then shot for two item songs in Kannada film Bachchan and Hindi film Bloody Isshq. She also did an item song ("Neeli Lomdi") in the Hindi film Khuda Kasam starring Sunny Deol, Tabbu.

Shah won the Miss Photogenic award in the MS Dombivli contest at a local mall when she was in 10th class. She studied arts from Mumbai’s Khalsa College. She later went on to become a model and worked under Ganesh Acharya for three years before getting roles in Kannada films.