Kirron Kher

Kirron Anupam Kher (also Kiran or, Kiron born 14 June 1955) is an Indian theatre, film and television actress, a TV talk show host and a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party. In May 2014, she was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament from Chandigarh.

Early life

Kirron Kher was born on 14 June 1955 in Punjab and brought up in a Sikh family in Chandigarh. Her sister is the Arjuna award-winning badminton player, Kanwal Thakar Kaur. Kirron had a brother, artist Amardeep Singh, who died in 2003. Her other sister Sharanjit Kaur Sandhu is married to a retired senior Naval Officer.

She completed her school education in Chandigarh, and then graduated from the Department of Indian Theatre of Punjab University, Chandigarh. Kirron then married Gautam Berry, a rich Mumbai-based businessman, and had a son, Sikandar Kher.

In Mumbai, Kiran tried throughout the 1980s to get a foothold in the film industry, but without success. While visiting producer after producer seeking a role in films, Kirron renewed her acquaintance with Anupam Kher, who was also a similarly struggling actor, and whom she had known slightly at university in Chandigarh. Anupam was also already married to someone else. Moving in the same theatre circles, they worked together in a play called Chandpuri Ki Champabai. In 1985, after Anupam had secured a break in films with Saaransh, he divorced his wife, Kirron divorced her husband, and they were married to each other the same year. They now run a production house together.