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Name : Asin
Birth name : Asin Thottumkal
Nick Name : Malabar Ahzagi, Tamil ammayee
Sex : Female
Birthdate : October 26, 1985 (1985-10-26)
Birth place : Kochi, Kerala, India
Nationality : Indian
Ethnicity : South Indian
Height : 5' 4" (1.63 m)
Education : Naval public school,Cochin; St. Teresa's College, Cochin
Profession : Actress, Model, Businesswoman
Father : Joseph Thotumkal (former CBI officer)
Mother : Dr.Shelin (Surgeon)
Claim to Fame : Filmfare award for the role Kalpana in Ghazini
Debut Film : Narendaran Makan

This Section contains Trivia of Asin

# She has completed her B.A. English Literature at St. Teresa's College, Kochi.
# Before becoming an actress, she was a part-time model and a businesswoman.
# She has shifted from her home town Kochi to Chennai, where she stays on Harrington Road.
# She, like many other actors has had a rich upbringing into the industry, with her father, Joseph Thottumkal being a noted businessman, while her mother, Seline Thottumkal, is a doctor.
# Asin is also brand ambassador for various products including Parachute, Fairever, Close-Up and Mirinda.
# She is a voracious reader.
# At age four she created a record by dancing non-stop for four hours.
# Asin means pure or blemishless
# One of the songs for the film M.Kumaran, S/O Mahalakshmi was
# filmed in the farmhouse owned by her family.
# Her father wanted to name her Mary after her grandmother.
# She was not able to act in the film 'Shahjahan' with Vijay due to date
# problems.
# Only child to her parents.
# Comes from a very wealthy family.
# Is a good bharata natyam and Kathakali dancer
# Director Fazil wanted to introduce her first in malayalam films.

his Section contains Biography of Asin

Asin Thottumkal born on October 26th, 1985 in Kochi town of Kerala is a talented South Indian actress and a well-known fashion model domains yahoo. Born to Joseph Thottumkal, a businessman and a doctor mother Seline Thottumkal, Asin grew up dreaming to become an actress domains yahoo. A graduate in English Literature from St. Teresa's College at Kochi, Asin learnt her basics in acting from a private acting institute domains yahoo.

The cherubic oval-faced beauty began her film career with a Malayalam film "Narendra Makan Jayakanthan Vaka" in 2001 domains yahoo. By 2003, the actress has come of age and rendered a zestful performance in two Telugu blockbuster movies, "Shivamani 9848022338 domains yahoo" opposite Nagarjuna and "Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi" opposite Ravi Teja and merited Best Actress Awards from Santosham, a leading Telugu film magazine for "Shivamani 9848022338" and domains yahoo Filmfare Awards {Telugu} for "Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi". She displayed similar performance in Tamil movie "Ghajini" {2005}starring opposite Surya and once again won the Filmfare Best Actress Award {Tamil} domains yahoo.

After winning the awards, the svelte actress got busier in Telugu and Tamil movies starring opposite the finest actors of the caliber of Balakrishna, Venkatesh, Prabhas, Surya, Vijay, Vikram, Ajith, Pavan Kalyan, brother of super star Chiranjeevi and several other actors including Kamal Haasan in "Dashavataram", a multi-lingual movie to be released in 8 Indian languages in early November of 2007. She is also acting opposite Bollywood's great actor, Aamir Khan in the remake version of "Ghajini", which is to be released in 2008. Her other movies gearing up for 2008 releases are "Vel" and "AC: Aezhumalai vs Chitra".

Sexy, talented, young and beautiful Asin has got all the ingredients to succeed at the top. Many moviegoers already rate this young actress as the top actress in South India. Besides movies the charming actress has also modeled for Colgate, Mirinda, Fairever and several other products.