Yami Gautam Wiki, Height, Age, Boyfriend, Husband, Family, Biography & More

Yami Gautam is an Indian actress and model who mainly works in Bollywood. She rose to fame after featuring in a series of Fair & Lovely TV advertisements.

Wiki/Biography

Yami Gautam was born on Monday, 28 November 1988 (age 35 years; as of 2023) in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh. Her zodiac sign is Sagittarius.

Her family shifted to Chandigarh after her grandfather opened a school for the underprivileged children in Chandigarh. As a child, Yami was extremely shy, timid, and studious. She did her schooling at Chandigarh’s Yadavindra Public School.

Later, she enrolled herself in Chandigarh’s Panjab University to pursue a graduate degree in law honors.

At that time, she desired to become an IAS officer, however, later she got inclined towards modelling and acting and left her law course after clearing the first year of her graduation. When she was 20 years old, she moved to Mumbai to pursue a career in acting. In 2019, Yami was pursuing her graduation through correspondence in Mumbai.

Physical Appearance

Height (approx.): 5′ 5″

Weight (approx.): 50 Kg

Hair Colour: Black

Eye Colour: Brown

Figure Measurements (approx.): 33-25-33

Religion, Caste & Ethnicity

Yami Gautam belongs to a Hindu Brahmin family. She is half-Pahadi and half-Punjabi; her father is a Punjabi and her mother is a Pahari.

Family

Parents & Siblings

Yami’s father, Mukesh Gautam, is a Punjabi film director. He was the vice president of PTC Punjabi channel. Her mother’s name is Anjali Gautam. Yami has a younger sister, Surilie Gautam, who is also an actress. She also has a younger brother, Ojas Gautam.

Husband

Yami Gautam tied the knot with the Indian film director Aditya Dhar on 4 June 2021 in a private ceremony in Himachal Pradesh.

Affairs/Boyfriends

Yami Gautam was rumoured to be in a relationship with the Indian actor Pulkit Samrat.

Career

Brand Endorsements

Yami Gautam started her career as a model by featuring in Fair & Lovely TV commercials. The advertisement was directed by Anurag Basu. She featured in a series of advertisements for Fair & Lovely and shot to fame.

Some of her other brand endorsements include Cornetto, Samsung Mobile, Chevrolet, and Revlon.

Television

Yami made her television debut in 2008 with the TV serial “Chand Ke Paar Chalo” in which she played the role of ‘Sana.’

She then appeared as ‘Rajkumari Bhairvi’ in the TV serial “Raajkumar Aaryyan” (2008). In 2009, Gautam appeared in the TV serial “Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam” as ‘Leher Mathur Vajpayee.’

She also participated in reality TV shows like “Meethi Choori No 1” (2010) and “Kitchen Champion: Season 1” (2010).

Films

Yami made her Kannada film debut in 2009 with the film “Ullasa Utsaha” as ‘Mahalakshmi.’

In 2011, she made her Punjabi film debut with the film “Ek Noor” in which she played the role of ‘Rabiha.’

In the same year, she debuted in the Telugu film industry with the film “Nuvvila” as ‘Archana.’

Her Bollywood film debut came in the year 2012 with the film “Vicky Donor.” Yami played the role of ‘Ashima Roy’ in the film and received critical acclaim for her performance.

Next, she made her debut in the Malayalam film industry with the film “Hero” as ‘Gauri Menon.’

Some of her popular Bollywood films include “Total Siyapaa” (2014), “Action Jackson” (2014), “Badlapur” (2015), “Sanam Re” (2016), “Kaabil” (2017), “Uri: The Surgical Strike” (2019) and “Bala” (2019).

Awards & Honours

• 5th Boroplus Gold Award for “Rising Film Stars From TV” for the film ‘Vicky Donor’ (2012)

• BIG Star Entertainment Award for “Most Entertaining Actor (Film) Debut – Female” for the film ‘Vicky Donor’ (2012)

• iTimes’s No. 12 Most Desirable Woman of 2012 (2013)

• Zee Cine Award for “Best Female Debut” for the film ‘Vicky Donor’ (2013)

• IIFA Award for “Star Debut of the Year – Female” for the film ‘Vicky Donor’ (2013)

• Lokmat Most Stylish Award for ‘Most stylish Unconventional Actress’ for the film ‘Bala’ (2019)

  Yami Gautam with Lokmat Award

• Star Screen Award for “Best Comedian” for the film ‘Bala’ (2020)

  Yami Gautam Star Screen Award

Signature

Favourites

• Food: Chamba ke Rajma, Pizza

• Film: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Titanic (1997)

• Director(s): Shoojit Sircar, Raju Hirani, Imtiaz Ali, Sriram Raghavan, Neeraj Pandey

• Colour(s): Black, Red, White

• Perfume: Forever and Ever Dior

• Holiday Destination(s): Ladakh

• Piece of Jewellery: A solitaire

Facts/Trivia

• Yami likes to reading, doing interior decoration, and listening to music.

• Yami abstains from smoking and drinking alcohol.

• In childhood, Yami was an introvert. While sharing an experience of her school days, she said,
  

  Once in school, I had prepared to recite a poem on stage. I blanked out. I quickly said something and ran away.”

• Gautam considers Tyra Banks her fashion idol.

• Gautam is very particular about her fitness and practices Yoga to keep herself fit. She loves doing Hot Yoga at a temperature of 40-degree Celcius.

  Yami Gautam doing Yoga

• She follows a vegetarian diet.

• Yami is a trained pole dancer.

  Yami Gautam doing pole dance

• Yami has worked in films of 6 different languages- Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi.

• She is an environment lover and has set up her own greenhouse and organic garden at her home in Himachal Pradesh.

• In an interview, Yami revealed that the first film that she watched in theatre was Maine Pyar Kiya (1989).

• Gautam was friends with Ayushmann Khurrana even before they did Vicky Donor (2012). In an interview, while sharing her experience of meeting Khurrana on the set of the film “Vicky Donor,” Gautam said,
  

  The moment I saw him I was like, ‘Arrey tum?’ Ayushmann was equally surprised.”

  Yami Gautam with Ayushmann Khurrana

• In 2021, she was featured on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. Yami has also been featured on the covers of magazines like “Elle,” “Brunch,” and “Brides.”

  Yami Gautam on the cover of the Cosmopolitan magazine

• Yami is an avid animal lover and keeps posting her pictures with dogs on her Instagram account.

  Yami Gautam with dogs

• She owns an Audi A4.

  Yami Gautam with her car

• In December 2021, she gave an interview in which she revealed her skin condition, keratosis pilaris. The actress talked in length about this abnormality and people’s reactions during shoots. According to the actress, she noticed this skin condition when she was a teenager. In the interview, while talking about the Instagram post in which she mentioned this, Yami said,
  

  Writing the post wasn’t difficult; it was liberating. The journey from the time when I learnt of my condition to the day I put the post out, was challenging. When people saw me at the shoot, they would talk about how it should be airbrushed or concealed. That would affect me a lot. It took years to accept it and wear my confidence. I was overwhelmed to see the response to the post.”

  On Instagram, she wrote,

  Hello my Insta (Instagram) family, I recently shot for some images and just when they were about to go in for post-production (a common procedure) to conceal my skin condition called Keratosis- Pilaris, I thought, ‘Hey Yami, why don’t you embrace this fact and accept it enough to be OKAY with it. Just let it be… (Yes, I do talk out loud to myself).”

  Yami added,

  For those who haven’t heard about this, it’s a skin condition wherein you get tiny bumps on the skin. I promise they aren’t as bad as your mind and your neighbour aunty makes it out to be) I developed this skin condition during my teenage years, and there is still no cure for it.”