Claudia Ciesla
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Claudia Ciesla is a German model
, actress, and singer of Polish descent.
, she grew up in Buków
, part of Silesia
, five miles from the Czech border. Her father is Polish, her mother is German and she has two older sisters.
, she explained that she believes in Karma
and reincarnation
and consider lord Ganesha
as her savior
.
, Germany. She was in Germany discovered by the former German Chief Editor, Stefan Gessulat, and appeared in the August 2005 Matador issue as Miss Matador. She went on to do many glamorous bikini style and fashion modeling shoots.
In March 2006, Ciesla won a subscribers poll on the internet websites of Auto Bild
, Bild, Sat.1
, T-Online
and Kabeleins
to give her first place as Germany's Super Girl 2006. In May 2006 she was selected by Bild as the Football/Soccer Worldcup Girl 2006, and during the World Cup
2006 she was featured on the front page of a total of seven publications of that newspaper. In November 2007 she told in an interview, that she plans after her modelling career to become a tax consultant.
In 2008 Claudia Ciesla was in Austria chosen for the Snow Queen 2008. In the touristic season 2007-2008 she was representing the snowrichest tourist Ski-Village in the World, and was showing up on various events and promotional appearances, photo shoots for magazines, advertising and brochures, and did a cover shoot for the magazine “MOTOR-Freizeit and TRENDS“ in Austria
.
reported that Ciesla is acting in a Bollywood
film Karma
along with leads Carlucci Weyant, Alma Saraci, and DJ Perry
as part of an international filmcrew to be filmed in India
. Film Director M.S. Shahjahan mentioned in an interview that there will be more assignments for Ciesla in Bollywood.
In July 2008 Ciesla played "Claudia" in the Italian television sitcom Outsiders in Palermo, shot in Palermo
. In August 2008 Ciesla played the female lead in the German-Indian film, Ki Jana Pardes.
She played the role of a German journalist in the film "10:10" (directed by "Arin Paul
"), together with Soumitra Chatterjee
and sang the film's title song.
She is currently shooting a guest role for the film Private Number in Bangalore
with director Anand Kumar
.
and visited Noida Film City
in India, where she was presented with a life membership of International Film and Television Club of Asian Academy Of Film & Television
. According The Times of India
, Claudia Ciesla made decision to convert to Hinduism. She said "I've discussed Indian philosophy and the Hindu religion and its gods, I love the aspects of tolerance, I love the thought of Karma and reincarnation."
Ciesla was invited by LPU and was awarded as the Brand Ambassador
of the "Lovely Professional University
". The LPU University also honoured her as "New promising foreign face in India". She was awarded with the prestigious Karmaveer Puraskaar
Award for her involvement in social work on 26 November 2009. The Karmaveer Puraskaar, is iCONGO’s National People’s Award for Social Justice and Action that honours concerned citizens. In the past, Kajol
, Ad guru and social activist Alyque Padamsee
, Dr. Leo Rebello, Rahul Bose
, Remo Fernandes
, M S Swaminathan (Father of the Green Revolution in India) have been recipients of the Karmaveer Puraskar. As a part of her social endeavor she supports a Delhi based national NGO-KHUSHII, working holistically for the benefit of the underprivileged.
Ciesla was roped in as one of the inmates at the Bigg Boss house in the third season of the reality show Bigg Boss (Season 3)
. It began airing on 4 October 2009 on Colors and was telecast daily at 9 p.m. for 84 Days with Amitabh Bachchan
as the host. This was her first brush with Indian reality TV. She was evicted on day 68, after spending 10 weeks on the show.
Since December 2010, Claudia was attending the TV show Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout
shot in Buenos Aires
, Argentina
. It is the Indian celebrity version of Wipeout with Bollywood
actor Shah Rukh Khan as the host. The show ended on February 25, 2011 with Kushal Punjabi
as the winner taking home Rs 50,000,000, while Claudia Ciesla was the runner-up by 51 seconds, to come in second place.
composer Gordon Lorenz
, and the video shot at his home in Llandudno
, Wales
. Despite her heritage, she is a fan of Yorkshire
football team
Leeds United and in August 2008 visited Elland Road
following the UK release of her debut single.
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
, actress, and singer of Polish descent.
Early life
Born in Wodzisław Śląski, PolandPoland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, she grew up in Buków
Buków, Silesian Voivodeship
Buków is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubomia, within Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately south of Lubomia, west of Wodzisław Śląski, and south-west of the regional capital Katowice.The village has a population of...
, part of Silesia
Silesia
Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...
, five miles from the Czech border. Her father is Polish, her mother is German and she has two older sisters.
Personal life
In 2009 Ciesla embraced HinduismHinduism
Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
, she explained that she believes in Karma
Karma
Karma in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh philosophies....
and reincarnation
Reincarnation
Reincarnation best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant...
and consider lord Ganesha
Ganesha
Ganesha , also spelled Ganesa or Ganesh, also known as Ganapati , Vinayaka , and Pillaiyar , is one of the deities best-known and most widely worshipped in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India and Nepal. Hindu sects worship him regardless of affiliations...
as her savior
Savior
Savior or Saviour may refer to:*a person who helps people achieve salvation, or saves them from something- Religion :* Mahdi* Mashiach* Messiah* Redeemer * Saoshyant* Soter- Music :* Saviours , a stoner metal band...
.
Modelling career
Claudia Ciesla started modeling at the age of 15 working for shows involved in fashion and dancing. At the age of 17 she moved to BambergBamberg
Bamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from...
, Germany. She was in Germany discovered by the former German Chief Editor, Stefan Gessulat, and appeared in the August 2005 Matador issue as Miss Matador. She went on to do many glamorous bikini style and fashion modeling shoots.
In March 2006, Ciesla won a subscribers poll on the internet websites of Auto Bild
Auto Bild
Auto Bild is a leading German automobile magazine. It is published by Axel Springer AG, and first appeared in 1986.AUTO BILD with its worldwide licensed editions, of which more than 7 million copies are sold every month, is published in 36 countries. Foreign editions include France's Auto Plus...
, Bild, Sat.1
Sat.1
Sat.1 is a privately owned German television broadcasting station. Sat.1 was the first privately owned television broadcasting station in Germany, having started one day before RTL Television....
, T-Online
T-Online
T-Online, a former subsidiary and now business unit of Deutsche Telekom, is the biggest internet service provider in Germany. It evolved out of the proprietary German Bildschirmtext information service in 1995...
and Kabeleins
Kabel 1
kabel eins is a commercial television channel in Germany. It started business on 29 February 1992, as the Kabelkanal and belongs to the ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. The channel is largely known for showing classic American films as well as series and documentaries...
to give her first place as Germany's Super Girl 2006. In May 2006 she was selected by Bild as the Football/Soccer Worldcup Girl 2006, and during the World Cup
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
2006 she was featured on the front page of a total of seven publications of that newspaper. In November 2007 she told in an interview, that she plans after her modelling career to become a tax consultant.
In 2008 Claudia Ciesla was in Austria chosen for the Snow Queen 2008. In the touristic season 2007-2008 she was representing the snowrichest tourist Ski-Village in the World, and was showing up on various events and promotional appearances, photo shoots for magazines, advertising and brochures, and did a cover shoot for the magazine “MOTOR-Freizeit and TRENDS“ in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
.
Acting career
In 2007 and again in 2008 she was appearing on the German Internet soap opera Beach House, playing Daisy Vandenburg. The New Indian ExpressThe New Indian Express
The New Indian Express is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as the Indian Express, under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naidu. In 1991, following the death of the then owner Ramnath Goenka, the Goenka...
reported that Ciesla is acting in a Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
film Karma
Karma (2008 film)
Karma - Crime. Passion. Reincarnation is a psychological thriller, filmed in India, that touches upon reincarnation. The film was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and it went on to win various awards including best picture in at the Marbella Film Festival in Marbella, Spain.-Plot:Vik, played...
along with leads Carlucci Weyant, Alma Saraci, and DJ Perry
DJ Perry
DJ Perry is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter.- Career :A graduate of Michigan State University, as CEO of Collective Development Inc. and former Vice-President of Lionheart Filmworks he has overseen or assisted in the overall production of over 20 feature films in various genres...
as part of an international filmcrew to be filmed in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. Film Director M.S. Shahjahan mentioned in an interview that there will be more assignments for Ciesla in Bollywood.
In July 2008 Ciesla played "Claudia" in the Italian television sitcom Outsiders in Palermo, shot in Palermo
Palermo
Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
. In August 2008 Ciesla played the female lead in the German-Indian film, Ki Jana Pardes.
She played the role of a German journalist in the film "10:10" (directed by "Arin Paul
Arin Paul
Arin Paul is a Bengali film director, writer and researcher on film history.-Early life:Paul was born in Belur, West Bengal and raised in Shillong, Meghalaya and Calcutta. He attended St. Edmund's School, Shillong, Andrews High School, the Scottish Church Collegiate School, and Shyamaprasad...
"), together with Soumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay is an iconic Bengali actor from India, known among other things for his frequent collaborations with the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray and his constant comparison with the Bengali screen idol Uttam Kumar.-Background:Soumitra graduated from...
and sang the film's title song.
She is currently shooting a guest role for the film Private Number in Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
with director Anand Kumar
Anand Kumar
Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematician and a columnist for various national and international mathematical journals and magazines. He is best known for his Super 30 programme, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches economically backward students for IIT-JEE, the entrance...
.
Bollywood
Ciesla was invited by Sandeep Marwah the Chairman of Marwah Films & Video StudiosMarwah Films & Video Studios
Marwah Studios Enterprise , NOIDA near New Delhi, has produced over 2500 films and television shows during the past 17 years. It is founded by Sandeep Marwah who has been in films, television and theatre for the last 25 years....
and visited Noida Film City
Noida Film City
Noida Film City houses Marwah Films & Video Studios and the Asian Academy of Film & Television. It is located in Sector 16A NOIDA, India.-About Noida Film City:The sprawling Film City was established in 1987...
in India, where she was presented with a life membership of International Film and Television Club of Asian Academy Of Film & Television
Asian Academy of Film & Television
The Asian Academy of Film & Television is a film school located in India's Noida Film City in India's Capital region, NCR. It is affiliated with the International Film & Television Research Center and the Marwah Films & Video Studios....
. According The Times of India
The Times of India
The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. TOI has the largest circulation among all English-language newspaper in the world, across all formats . It is owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd...
, Claudia Ciesla made decision to convert to Hinduism. She said "I've discussed Indian philosophy and the Hindu religion and its gods, I love the aspects of tolerance, I love the thought of Karma and reincarnation."
Ciesla was invited by LPU and was awarded as the Brand Ambassador
Ambassador
An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....
of the "Lovely Professional University
Lovely Professional University
Lovely Professional University is a private semi-residential university created under the state government private university act. LPU claims to be the largest private university in India in terms of number of students on a single campus and is situated on 600+ acres of green area on NH-1 at the...
". The LPU University also honoured her as "New promising foreign face in India". She was awarded with the prestigious Karmaveer Puraskaar
Karmaveer Puraskaar
The Karmaveer Puraskaar are National People's Awards for Citizen Social Justice and Action instituted by the citizens and people of India. These awards are instituted by iCONGO- Confederation of NGOs – a Public-Private-People partnership in association with other partners from industry, media,...
Award for her involvement in social work on 26 November 2009. The Karmaveer Puraskaar, is iCONGO’s National People’s Award for Social Justice and Action that honours concerned citizens. In the past, Kajol
Kajol
Kajol Devgn , better known as Kajol, is an Indian film actress appearing in Hindi films. She is regarded as one of India's most successful and talented female actors....
, Ad guru and social activist Alyque Padamsee
Alyque Padamsee
Alyque Padamsee is an Indian theater personality and ad film maker. He is probably best known in the English-speaking world for playing Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the film Gandhi...
, Dr. Leo Rebello, Rahul Bose
Rahul Bose
Rahul Bose is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player.Bose has appeared in Hindi films such as Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats. Time magazine named him "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema" for his work in parallel cinema films like English,...
, Remo Fernandes
Remo Fernandes
Luís Remo de Maria Bernardo Fernandes, more popularly known as Remo Fernandes is a pop/rock/Indian fusion artist and playback singer from the state of Goa, India. His musical work is a fusion of many different cultures and styles he's been exposed to as a child in Goa and in his later travels...
, M S Swaminathan (Father of the Green Revolution in India) have been recipients of the Karmaveer Puraskar. As a part of her social endeavor she supports a Delhi based national NGO-KHUSHII, working holistically for the benefit of the underprivileged.
Ciesla was roped in as one of the inmates at the Bigg Boss house in the third season of the reality show Bigg Boss (Season 3)
Bigg Boss (Season 3)
Bigg Boss Season 3 in 2009 was the third season of the Indian reality TV programme Bigg Boss. It began airing on 4 October 2009 on Colors with Amitabh Bachchan as the host and aired for 84 days concluding on 26 December 2009. Vindu Dara Singh won the show while Pravesh Rana was declared the first...
. It began airing on 4 October 2009 on Colors and was telecast daily at 9 p.m. for 84 Days with Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
as the host. This was her first brush with Indian reality TV. She was evicted on day 68, after spending 10 weeks on the show.
Since December 2010, Claudia was attending the TV show Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout
Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout
Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout was an Indian reality game show aired on Imagine TV. The show was based on the American reality show Wipeout. It was hosted by actor Shahrukh Khan and co-hosted by Saumya Tandon. The show consisted of a series of obstacles which the contestants must clear to move on to...
shot in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. It is the Indian celebrity version of Wipeout with Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
actor Shah Rukh Khan as the host. The show ended on February 25, 2011 with Kushal Punjabi
Kushal Punjabi
Kushal Punjabi is an Indian film and television actor, who won the TV reality game show, Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout, the Indian version of internationally popular "Wipeout" in February 2011, taking home the prize of 5 million.-Early life and family:...
as the winner taking home Rs 50,000,000, while Claudia Ciesla was the runner-up by 51 seconds, to come in second place.
Music career
Her summer 2008 single I love dancing I Espania is written by EnglishEngland
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
composer Gordon Lorenz
Gordon Lorenz
Gordon Lorenz , was an English songwriter and record producer, who made his fame by writing the UK Christmas number one hit "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma" for St Winifred’s School Choir...
, and the video shot at his home in Llandudno
Llandudno
Llandudno is a seaside resort and town in Conwy County Borough, Wales. In the 2001 UK census it had a population of 20,090 including that of Penrhyn Bay and Penrhynside, which are within the Llandudno Community...
, Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
. Despite her heritage, she is a fan of Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
football team
Football team
A football team is the collective name given to a group of players selected together in the various team sports known as football.Such teams could be selected to play in an against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an All-star team or even selected as a...
Leeds United and in August 2008 visited Elland Road
Elland Road
Elland Road is an all-seater football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has been the permanent residence of Leeds United A.F.C...
following the UK release of her debut single.