Reel Name: Taapsee Pannu Real Name: Taapsee Birth Place: August 1, 1988, Ludhiana, Punjab, India Occupation : Actress, model Taapsee Pannu (born August 01, 1988) is an Indian model-turned-film actress. An ethnic Punjabi, she was a software engineer before pursuing modelling which eventually led her to acting. Appearing in several commercials, Taapsee also won Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Face and Safi Femina Miss Beautiful Skin, during her modelling days. She made her acting debut in 2010 with K. Raghavendra Rao's romantic-musical Jhummandi Naadam and has signed half-a-dozen films in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam-languages.