Vaani Kapoor was born on 23 August 1988 and brought up in Delhi. Her father is a furniture exports entrepreneur and her mother is a teacher-turned marketing executive.Vaani attended Mata Jai Kaur Public School, Ashok Vihar in North Delhi and graduated from Indira Gandhi Open National University (IGNOU) in tourism, after which she took up an internship with Oberoi Hotels & Resorts in Jaipur and later worked for ITC Hotel. Her parents were comfortable and cool with her choice of doing modelling and then pursuing her career in acting. Infact they supported her in every possible manner. Kapoor debuted on television with the series Specials @ 10 (2009), that aired on Sony TV . The series was directed by several directors and she played the leading role of Rajuben, a lady don, in one of the segment of the series called Rajuben, presented by Anurag Kashyap. After that Kapoor made her film debut with a supporting role in the 2013 romantic comedy Shuddh Desi Romance, a critical and commercial success. She even bagged the debut award from Filmfare Award platform for her character for her first film. Her upcoming film is Befikre, which is about to come on floor soon and expected to release next year. As far as her awards are concerned, her debut film has given a number of awards under the Debut category. Recently Vaani Kapoor signed 3 movies with Yash Raj Films. The actress is going to be seen in Tamil/Telugu movie which is remake of Band Baaja Baraat.