From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Padma Lakshmi, Newsweek cover, March, 2006Padma Lakshmi is a New York-based Indian model and actress. She was born in 1970 in Madras and is of Malayali descent. She is currently married to novelist Salman Rushdie. Her cookbook Easy Exotic was awarded Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles. She was host of the Food Network series, Padma's Passport which is part of the larger series, Melting Pot. She has also been a guest host on parts of the British culinary tourism show, Planet Food. She hosted the segments on India and Spain. Other notable television roles include a memorable guest appearance in Star Trek: Enterprise as an imperious princess. It is rumoured that she also took part in a battle scene disguised as a reptilian. She was host of Domenica In, Italy's top-rated television show. She also starred in Glitter with Mariah Carey and in Boom with Amitabh Bachchan. She speaks 5 languages fluently: English, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, and Tamil.

  Sharpe's Challenge (2006) (TV) .... Madhuvanthi
"The Ten Commandments" (2006) (mini) TV Series .... Princess Bithia
Mistress of Spices (2005) .... Geeta
Boom (2003/I) .... Shiela Bardez
"Enterprise"
... aka Star Trek: Enterprise (USA: new title)
- Precious Cargo (2002) TV Episode .... Kaitaama
Glitter (2001) .... Sylk

"Caraibi" (1999) (mini) TV Series .... Malinche
... aka Piraten der Karibik (Germany)
"Figlio di Sandokan, Il" (1998) (mini) TV Series
... aka The Son of Sandokan
"Linda e il brigadiere"
... aka Linda e il brigadiere 2 (Italy: second season title)
... aka Linda, il brigadiere e... (Italy: third season title)
- Il fratello di Linda (????) TV Episode .... Indian Lady