Sunny Leone Birthday: Ten Lesser Known Facts About The Actor

It's actor Sunny Leone's birthday today and what better way to celebrate it than recounting the amazing facts about a woman, who is not only strong, beautiful and successful but also someone who has fought her way to where she is now. Leone is funny and a sport but is also stern and knows how to shut up an offensive crowd with her humour.

Leone has been part of films like One Night Stand, Kuch Kuch Locha Hai, Ragini MMS 2 and Raees, amongst others. She has also been dancing to popular Hindi film songs. Not only that, but she has also been the host of multiple reality shows.

Her fans adore her for the sense of humour and the funny videos that the actor releases on social media from time to time. Not just acting, she has also done a comedy stand-up show One Mic Stand for Amazon Prime where she talked about her life and what people have to say. The 41-year-old actor has loads of facts about her that people are unaware of. These are some cool things that the actor has done or does.

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Sunny Leone Birthday

- The name that she was given by her family is Karenjit Kaur Vohra. She grew up in a Sikh family in Sarnia in Canada. Later in life, she chose the name Karen Malhotra as her stage name.

- She worked in the adult film industry for a while. Before that, she used to work at a German bakery and a tax-and-retirement firm.

- She studied to be a pediatric nurse.

- After she started working, she chose to be called Sunny and later Leone was added.

- She is part of BBC's 100 Most Influential Women for the year 2016 and was also the most searched celebrity in 2020 after Priyanka Chopra.

- She is the first Indian female actor to venture into the non-fungible token (NFT).

- In 2018, she launched her own brand of cosmetics named Star Struck Cosmetics, which s PETA certified.

- In 2016, she was the first Indian celebrity to launch her own mobile app.

- Apart from being good at multiple sectors, she is also an author of the book Sweet Dreams, which is a compilation of short stories.

- She married Daniel Weber in 2011 and both of them run Suncity Media and Entertainment, which is the production house that was founded in 2015.