Claudia Ciesla () is a Polish-born German actress and model who works mainly in the Indian film industry. Claudia Ciesla Featured Model Interview 4 January 2005 She was a contestant on the Indian reality television series Bigg Boss. Ciesla is also a nutritionist in India and author of Keep Eating Keep Losing.
Raised as a Jew, Ciesla converted to Hinduism in 2009.
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 November 2007 she told in an interview, that she plans after her modelling career to become a tax consultant.
In the touristic season of 2007–2008, Ciesla was representing the snowrichest tourist Ski-Village in the World, Damüls, Austria, as the Snow Queen 2008 and was showing up for various events, promotional appearances and photo shoots for magazines, advertising and brochures including a cover shoot for the magazine "MOTOR-Freizeit and TRENDS" in Austria. "Claudia Ciesla in Österreich zur Schneekönigin gewählt – Claudia Ciesla in Austria chosen as Snow Queen." , cclaudia.wordpress.com, 24 December 2007
In 2007, and again in 2008, she appeared on the German Internet soap opera Beach House, playing Daisy Vandenburg. Clipfish Beach House Channel The New Indian Express reported that Ciesla is acting in a Bollywood film Karma along with leads Carlucci Weyant, Alma Saraci as part of an international film crew to be filmed in India. "Actor wants Ooty to be Hollywood crew's destination", The New Indian Express, 30 January 2008 Film Director M.S. Shahjahan mentioned in an interview that there will be more assignments for Ciesla in Bollywood., India-EU Film Initiative, 24 March 2008"Süße Claudia-In Indien wird sie jetzt Kinostar", Bild, 23 February 2008
In July 2008 Ciesla played "Claudia" in the Italian television sitcom Outsiders in Palermo, shot in Palermo. "Cronache di Sicilia" "Interview in ital. TV Kanal 7Gold"
She played the role of a German journalist in the film (directed by "Arin Paul"), together with Soumitra Chatterjee.[8]
Ciesla was the Brand Ambassador of the "Lovely Professional University". LPU also honoured her as a "New promising foreign face in India". The Deccan Chronicle, 2 July 2009 She also visited Thapar University for promotion of her Punjabi film during their technical fest Aranya. On 26 November 2009, Ciesla was awarded the prestigious Karmaveer Puraskaar, which is iCONGO’s National People’s Award for Social Justice and Action, honouring concerned citizens who have led change. Past recipients of the Karmaveer Puraskar include Kajol, Alyque Padamsee, Rahul Bose, Remo Fernandes and M S Swaminathan. FPR , 27 November 2009
In December 2010 Ciesla attended the TV show shot in Buenos Aires, Argentina. official website of zorka-jhatka-total-wipeout, 29 December 2011 It is the Indian celebrity version of Wipeout with Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan as the host. The show ended on 25 February 2011 with Kushal Punjabi as the winner, while Ciesla was the runner-up by 51 seconds, to come in second place.
Ciesla made her first mainstream appearance in 2012 when she did the item song "Balma", sharing screen space with Akshay Kumar in his film Khiladi 786. The song is composed by Himesh Reshammiya and the dance is choreographed by Ganesh Acharya.
In 2016, she appeared in the third part of the successful Bollywood franchise Kyaa Kool Hain Hum film series, titled Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3. She was last seen dancing on a peppy number alongside Krushna Abhishek in the film Teri Bhabhi Hai Pagle.
She has appeared in a nutrition talk show called Weight & Watch by Claudia, which was released on Tata Play Fitness, D2H and Dish TV in August 2023. In this 4-episode series, she spoke about the relationship with food, mindfulness, gut health and digestive system, intermittent fasting, circadian rhythm, and the importance of all of the above to thrive in life.
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