Pragati Mishra is an Indian actress, who hails from Banda, Uttar Pradesh. She is best known for Memories of You (2020) and UP65 (2023).
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Wiki/Biography
Pragati’s age is 26; as of 2023 She studied media and mass communication at Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai.
Physical Appearance
Height: 5′ 6″
Weight (approx.): 55 kg
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Brown
Figure Measurements (approx.): 34-28-34
Family
Parents & Siblings
Pragati has one sister and one brother. Her brother’s name is Arin Mishra and her sister’s name is Pragya Mishra.
Pragati Mishra with her family
Husband & Children
She is unmarried.
Career
Before getting into the world of acting, she worked in an advertising company for a year. From that, she got an interest in acting and joined an acting course with Saurabh Sachdeva and worked with a youth organisation Thespo in Mumbai. She did theatre before making a debut with the web series UP65 (2023). The series was aired on JioCinema.
UP65 (2023)
Apart from this, she has done several short films.
Favourites
- Food: Aloo Kachori, Chaat, Paan, Sandwiches
- Destination: Arunachal Pradesh
- Book(s): How To Live Your Life, Irrfan: Dialogues with the Wind, The Fountainhead
Facts/Trivia
- In one of her Instagram posts, Pragati shared that when she was a child, she used to have a diary in which she used to stick pictures of her favourite actors from Bollywood. Before any movie release or big award night, she used to wait for the newspaper in the morning to pick the pictures of her favourites and diligently cut out the picture that inspired her.
- Pragati revealed that after completing her 12th grade, she shifted to Mumbai to pursue journalism. She had plans of pursuing engineering but a friend of hers guided her to pursue journalism as she talks a lot. Becoming an actress was not her first choice. But after working in an advertising agency for a year, she realised that he wants to be an actress and pursue it.
- When Pragati shifted to Mumbai, she lived in a 1BHK, where her landlady was a widow. She was sharing the flat with a family of three and a room with other two females.
- Before joining the film industry, she used to do theatre during her college days.
- In another interview, she shared that she comes from a place where houses are made of mud and no one can converse in English.
- When Pragati got the script o UP65, she saw that the entire script was written in the Devanagari language. Her sister visited her and helped her to understand the part of the script. Her theatre background helped a lot to understand the character of the film in depth. She even used to listen to the audible version of the UP65 novel before bedtime to keep the character close to her.
- According to her, the theatre has taught her to go with the flow which has always been the mantra for her life.
- After the release of UP65, Pragati got several appreciation messages via DMs and she was not able to understand how to respond to so many messages. For that, she locked herself in a room and she was not able to handle so much love and praise.
- She loves to travel and explore the city wherever she shifts or goes for the shooting. She loves Aloo Kachori, Chaat, Paan, Jalebi or Varanasi.
- Before getting into the world of acting, she completed an acting course with Saurabh Sachdeva and worked with a youth organisation Thespo in Mumbai.
- In an interview in 2023, she revealed that follows a vegetarian diet. But in one of her Instagram posts from 2017, she was seen eating an omelette.
- She loves travelling to new places.
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