Huma Qureshi

Acting

Huma Qureshi

Born 1986-07-28 · New Delhi, India

Huma Qureshi (born Huma Saleem Qureshi) is an Indian actress, model, and producer who works predominantly in Hindi cinema alongside international and South Indian productions. Born on July 28, 1986, in New Delhi into a Muslim family to restaurateur Saleem Qureshi and Ameena Qureshi, she is the elder sister of actor Saqib Saleem. She completed her schooling in Delhi and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History from Gargi College, University of Delhi. Deeply passionate about dramatic arts, she honed her skills in Delhi's theatre circuit with the Act 1 theatre group under the mentorship of N. K. Sharma and Aamir Raza Husain before moving to Mumbai. After appearing in high-profile television commercials for brands like Samsung and Nerolac, she was spotted by filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who cast her in his landmark two-part crime saga. Qureshi made an explosive feature film debut portraying the feisty Mohsina Hamid in Anurag Kashyap's critically acclaimed cult masterpiece *Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1* and *Part 2* (2012) opposite Nawazuddin Siddiqui, earning widespread national recognition and nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut and Best Supporting Actress. She quickly cemented her reputation as a bold, versatile performer, headlining acclaimed films including the supernatural thriller *Ek Thi Daayan* (2013), Nikkhil Advani's espionage actioner *D-Day* (2013), Abhishek Chaubey's black comedy *Dedh Ishqiya* (2014) alongside Madhuri Dixit, Sriram Raghavan's neo-noir revenge drama *Badlapur* (2015), and the Marathi road drama *Highway* (2015). She delivered major commercial box-office hits with Subhash Kapoor's courtroom comedy *Jolly LLB 2* (2017) opposite Akshay Kumar and crossed over into regional and international cinema with the Malayalam drama *White* (2016) opposite Mammootty, Gurinder Chadha's historical drama *Viceroy's House* / *Partition: 1947* (2017), Pa. Ranjith's Tamil action drama *Kaala* (2018) opposite Rajinikanth, and H. Vinoth's Tamil action thriller *Valimai* (2022) with Ajith Kumar. Qureshi emerged as one of Indian streaming entertainment's most formidable powerhouses, earning critical acclaim as Shalini in Deepa Mehta's Netflix dystopian drama series *Leila* (2019) and headlining three acclaimed seasons of SonyLIV's flagship political drama *Maharani* (2021–present) as Chief Minister Rani Bharti, which won her multiple Filmfare OTT Awards for Best Actress. She made her Hollywood debut in Zack Snyder's zombie heist thriller *Army of the Dead* (2021), played the seductive titular lead in Vasan Bala's neo-noir hit *Monica, O My Darling* (2022), portrayed iconic culinary pioneer Tarla Dalal in the biopic *Tarla* (2023), and starred in the psychological thriller series *Mithya* (2022–2024). Her filmography extends to Bikas Mishra's investigative drama *Bayaan* (2025), Pulkit's action thriller *Maalik* (2025) opposite Rajkummar Rao, the slice-of-life comedy *Single Salma* (2025), reprising Pushpa Pandey in *Jolly LLB 3* (2025), Vipul Vig's social drama *Gulabi* (2026), the thriller *Pooja Meri Jaan* (2026), and Geetu Mohandas's pan-Indian gangster action epic *Toxic* (2026) alongside Yash.

Acting credits

Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups poster
7.3

A powerful drug cartel pulls the strings behind a facade of sun-soaked beaches as a gritty, violent underworld power struggle emerges during the crumbling of Portuguese colonial rule.

Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups

2026

Army of the Dead poster
6.2

Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.

Army of the Dead

2021

Viceroy's House poster
6.6

In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.

Viceroy's House

2017

Jolly LLB 3 poster
6.5

The third part of the Jolly LLB trilogy brings back Jagdish Tyagi and Jagdishwar Mishra for the biggest face-off as penurious widow Janki Devi Solanki awaits justice against business tycoon Haribhai Khaitan in a satire on the judiciary, justice and the gulf between the privileged and the people on the other side of the spectrum.

Jolly LLB 3

2025

Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 poster
7.1

In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1

2012

Gangubai Kathiawadi poster
7.5

Duped and sold to a brothel, a young woman fearlessly reclaims her power, using underworld connections to preside over the world she was once a pawn in.

Gangubai Kathiawadi

2022

Single Salma poster
5.6

Salma balances work, family and marriage pressure. But after finally accepting a suitor, a trip to London brings an unexpected connection.

Single Salma

2025

Bell Bottom poster
6.2

By the early ‘80s, India had already witnessed multiple airplane hijacks. In 1984, the country was made to face another such challenge. BellBottom, a RAW Agent, sees through the plan and thus begins India's first overseas covert operation. An operation, lead by a forgotten hero, that went on to create one of the most defining moments for India.

Bell Bottom

2021

Monica, O My Darling poster
7.1

A slick robotics expert joins a murderous plot after a passionate affair takes a sudden turn, but nothing — not even death — is what it seems to be.

Monica, O My Darling

2022

Trishna poster
5.9

When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?

Trishna

2011

Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2 poster
7.8

After the death of his father and brother Danish, Faizal Khan vows to take revenge by destroying Ramadhir Singh's gang.

Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2

2012

Highway poster
5.0

Highway is a film of that escape which all of us yearn for. It is an attempt to see our own reflections in today’s time.

Highway

2015

Kaala poster
6.4

Karikaalan consistently fights to keep the people of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, safe from the clutches of mighty politicians and the land mafia don, Hari Dhadha.

Kaala

2018

Creating an Army of the Dead poster
6.0

Zack Snyder and his Army of the Dead team dive into the film's wild stunts, groundbreaking effects and the evolution of the zombie genre.

Creating an Army of the Dead

2021

White poster
3.7

'White' revolves around a banker who is in his 40's and is a widower. He leads a luxurious lifestyle, and in the course, he falls in love with an IT professional in her 20s.

White

2016

Maalik poster
5.9

Set in the rural, rusty and politically charged Allahabad of the 1980s, Maalik is a peek into the making of a dreaded gangster from a humble background with intoxication of power to rule the world.

Maalik

2025

Tees poster
NR

Spanning across 90 years, follow a middle-class Muslim family across three generations. 2042. Six months after his manuscript titled Tees (30) is rejected for publication by the Literature and Arts Commission, Anhad Draboo, a young freelance prostitute, meets Niharika, a “reader” from the Commission – who has been searching for Anhad ever since she read his manuscript. 2018. Zia Draboo, a corporate lawyer living in Mumbai and all set to buy the flat she has been renting with her partner Meera, finds out she cannot buy it because of the Housing Society’s resistance to her name. 1989-90. Ayesha, a housebound State Radio newsreader in Srinagar, Kashmir, reaches out to her childhood friend Usha to solicit help from her husband – a government official. She needs it for her own husband, Ghulam Muhammad, who faces bankruptcy and ruin amongst rising unrest in the city.

Tees

2024

Jolly LLB 2 poster
7.0

A blunt, abrasive and yet oddly compassionate Jagdishwar Mishra aka Jolly, a small-time struggling lawyer who moves from Kanpur to the city of Nawabs to pursue his dream of becoming a big-time lawyer.

Jolly LLB 2

2017

D-Day poster
6.6

Four Indian agents spend nine years under cover to track down India's most wanted criminal.

D-Day

2013

Badlapur poster
7.0

After his wife and son are killed, a young man finds out the man behind the murder and fights against him, along committing some big mistakes.

Badlapur

2015

Valimai poster
5.5

A honest cop tries to track down the brain behind a series of robberies and murders, but things turn personal when his family become pawns in the criminal's game.

Valimai

2022

Baby Do Die Do poster
9.0

A deaf and mute serial killer in Mumbai can only hear her dead sister's voice as she commits murders for mysterious reasons.

Baby Do Die Do

2026

Dedh Ishqiya poster
6.5

A team of con men fall for a Begum and her female confidante. Does their love fructify?

Dedh Ishqiya

2014

X: Past Is Present poster
5.4

When a middle-aged filmmaker meets an alluring stranger at a party, he's haunted by troubling memories of his past relationships.

X: Past Is Present

2015

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