Madhuri Dixit Nene is an Indian actress known for her work in Hindi cinema. She was congratulated by the critics for her acting and dancing skills. She has received six Filmfare Awards, four for Best Actress, one for Best Supporting Actress and a Special Award for her contribution to the film industry. She was nominated for the Best Actress Filmfare Award for a record fourteen times and, along with Raakhee, she is the most nominated actress in the actress categories, with 16 nominations. The Indian government awarded him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India in 2008.

Dixit is from Mumbai, India. She was born on May 15, 1967 to a Maharashtrian family in Shankar and Snehlata Dixit. She has always wanted to dance since the age of 3 and then practiced Kathak’s art and then became a professional Kathak dancer.

Dixit attended Divine Child High School and joined Sathaye College (Vile Parle) where she studied microbiology as one of her BSc subjects. However, as she recounted in an interview with AIB in 2018, six months into her Bachelor of Science degree, she decided to drop out of school and work in full-time movies.

Dixit made his film debut in Abodh (1984) and received wider public recognition with Tezaab (1988) . She then established herself as a leading Hindi film actress with the films Ram Lakhan (1989), Dil (1990), Saajan (1991), Beta (1992), Khalnayak (1993), Hum Aapke Hain Koun ..! (1994), Raja (1995) and Dil To Pagal Hai (1997). She has been critically acclaimed for her work in the dramas Anjaam (1994), Mrityudand (1997), Pukar (2000), Lajja (2001) and Devdas (2002). In 2002, she took a sabbatical from films to raise her children and made a comeback with the musical Aaja Nachle in 2007, later in the 2014 dramas Dedh Ishqiya and Gulaab Gang. His first role in Marathi cinema came with the comedy drama Bucket List 2018.

In addition to playing in movies, Dixit has been featured as a talent judge for four seasons of reality dance performances Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa and Dance Deewane. She has participated in several shows and engaged in philanthropic activities. Since 1999, on October 17, 1999, she is married to Dr. Shriram Madhav Nene, with whom she has two children. After his marriage, Dixit moved to Denver, Colorado, for over a decade. She returned to Mumbai with her family in October 2011.

When Saajan was founded in 1990, Madhuri had an affair with Sanjay Dutt who was married at the time. Despite the objections of his father, the relationship continued. However, with Dutt’s arrest in 1993, Madhuri ended the relationship. Speaking of the break, journalist Bharati Pradhan reported in the Telegraph that “Madhuri has always been a clean actress, a Dutt-Dixit alliance would have been disastrous and she was too wise not to see her.”

Madhuri Dixit was the muse of the Indian painter Mr. F. Husain. He was so fascinated by Dixit in Hum Aapke Hain Koun ..! he watched the movie 67 times, and in 2007 he booked an entire theater to see his film back Aaja Nachle. He made a series of paintings and in 2000 made a film called Gaja Gamini staging, in tribute to Dixit herself.