Ankita Makwana

Ankita Makwana is an Indian film producer, model, and an actor. She is also a motivational speaker who likes to enlighten the masses. She was born in Zurich, Switzerland in the year 1991. However, she paved her path in the Indian film industry eventually.

Ankita is a budding actress who also has experience in modeling, motivational speaking, and production. She owns two production houses AM Films and Rebelmango. Born in the city of Zurich, Switzerland, Ankita is the daughter of the J.H Makwana. Her father is the Honorary Consul-General of India for the Vatican City and Zurich.

She was brought up in Zurich from where she completed her schooling. For further studies, she went to the northeastern city of St. Gallen from where she completed her higher education. She graduated from the University of St. Gallen with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.

After her graduation, she lived in cities like Paris, Geneva and later on found a way to Mumbai. At a tender age, she anchored an episode of Euro Zindagi (1998) for Zee TV UK. In 2006, Ankita came to India and started taking formal acting lessons in Mumbai at Kishore Namit Kapoor's Acting Lab.

After some time she worked in advertisements for Universal Mobiles and Ford Ikon, she also was a part of small films. Ankita got her chance in Bollywood through the 2008 film Kidnap; she did a cameo with the character Tisha alongside Sanjay Dutt July 29, 1959, was the day when the two legends of >> Read More... directed by Sanjay Gadhvi Sanjay Gadhvi is a famous Indian director known fo >> Read More... . Her modeling career was a success; she was a cover model for Swiss magazine, Annabelle.

She had also done photo shoots for German papers, Schweitzer Illustrierte and 20 Minuten. The list goes on; she was also a model for the brand 495dm exclusive and Schatzinsel. In 2013, Ankita gave a motivational speech in Zurich at the TEDx conference, her focus during the speech was about building your world. In 2016, she appeared in the Rajeev Jhaveri Rajeev Jhaveri is an Indian director and screenwri >> Read More... directorial, Fever.

The thriller also featured Rajeev Khandelwal Rajeev Khandelwal is a model turned film and telev >> Read More... and Gauhar Khan Gauhar Khan or Gauahar Khan or Gauahar Zafar Khan >> Read More... . Entirely shot in Switzerland Ankita played the role of Grace Soni. Ankita is also an excerpt writer for interactive short films like Sad Santa and Verloren. In 2015, she wrote, produced and acted in a Swiss TV series, Zurich 8001. It was the first English speaking TV series shot in Switzerland; produced by AM films.