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Madhuri Dixit (Marathi: माधुरी दीक्षित) (born Madhuri Shankar Dixit on 15 May 1967)[1] is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Hindi films. Often cited by the media as one of the best actresses in Bollywood,[2][3] Dixit made her film debut in Abodh (1984) and received wider public recognition with Tezaab (1988). She went on to establish herself as one of Hindi cinema's leading actresses, acknowledged for several of her performances, her beauty, and her accomplished dancing.[4] Some of her proceeding films include such box-office hits as Dil (1990), Saajan (1991), Beta (1992), Hum Aapke Hain Kaun...! (1994) and Raja (1995). After a relatively low phase, she reinvented herself with the romance Dil To Pagal Hai and subsequently received critical acclaim for her work in films like Mrityudand (1997), Pukar (2000), Lajja (2001), Devdas (2002). In 2002, she retired from films in order to raise her children, and made a comeback with the musical Aaja Nachle in 2007.

Dixit has won five Filmfare Awards, four for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress. She holds the record for the highest number of Best Actress nominations at Filmfare, with 13. In 2008, she was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award by the Government of India.[5] She is married to Dr Shriram Madhav Nene, with whom she has two children. The couple resided in the United States, before moving to India in 2011.
Madhuri Dixit made her acting debut in Rajshri Productions' movie Abodh in 1984. The film failed but minor and supporting roles continued to follow. She attained stardom after she landed the lead female role in N. Chandra's blockbuster Tezaab (1988),[9] for which she received her first Filmfare nomination. In the following year, she starred in a number of important films that included Ram Lakhan, Parinda and Tridev.

In 1990, Dixit starred in Indra Kumar's romantic-drama Dil. She played the role of a rich and arrogant girl who falls in love with a poorer boy and later leaves her house to marry him. The film became the biggest box-office hit of the year in India[10] and Dixit's performance earned her the first Filmfare Best Actress Award of her career.
Post the success of Dil she starred in several successful movies like Saajan (1991), Beta (1992),[11] Khalnayak (1993), Hum Aapke Hain Kaun...! (1994), and Raja (1995). Dixit's performance in Beta, that of a woman married to an illiterate, well-meaning man who exposes her scheming mother-in-law, won her a second Filmfare Award for Best Actress. Hum Aapke Hain Kaun...! (1994) became one of the biggest hits in the history of Hindi cinema. Dixit's role of a modern yet family-oriented young girl fetched her the third Filmfare Best Actress Award of her career.