Rani Mukerji hails from a Bengali origin. Her father Ram Mukerji was a retired director and her mother krishna Mukerji was a playback singer. Her brother Raj Mukerji is a actor turned director. Her maternal aunt was a Bengali actress and the striking actress of the bollywood industry, Kajol is her cousin. She has received 3 filmfare awards for supporting role, 2 filmfare critics for her performance and 2 awards for filmfare best actress.Rani Mukerji is known for her very stern and heavy voice. She studied at Maneckji Cooper high school which located at juhu in Mumbai. She then completed her graduation from Mithibai college, which is in Mumbai itself.While she was yet schooling she acted in her own father's film 'Biyer Phool'. She made her acting debut five years later in the movie 'Raja ki Aayege Baraat.Her next movie after 'Biyer Phool' was 'Kuch kuch hota Hain', which was a romantic block buster. She then acted in Hum Tum, Veer Zaara and Yuva. These movies received average ratings at the box office.In the years 2011 and 2012 she acted for two semi- biographical movies. One of which was No Killed Jessica and the other one was Taalash: the answer lies within. Rani Mukherji is now married to film maker Aditya Chopra. Apart from acting she also sang some f the few songs like hey ram, Doli saja Ke rakhna, oh darling yeh hai India and chandramukhi.She has won awards for best actress in the year 2007 for the movie kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, she won best actress for the movie Black in the year 2006. She has won screen award for jodi number one for the movie 'Bunty aur Bubbly'. She won best actress in suporting role for the movie Veer Zaara in the year 2005.