Born in Jakarta, March 16, 1982, Dian Paramita Sastrowardoyo started her showbiz career at the age of 14, when she won the beauty contest Gadis Sampul, a cover girl competition sponsored by a popular teen magazine in Indonesia. Dian began her acting career as a cast member of Bintang Jatuh (Shooting Star, director Rudy Soedjarwo, 2000) but it was her role as a teenage refugee in the film Pasir Berbisik (Whispering Sands, director Nan Achnas, 2001) that won her many prestigious awards including the 2002 Deauville Asian Film Festival in France for Best Actress as well as the 2002 Singapore International Film Festival. Her iconic role as Cinta (also the Indonesian word for 'love'), a popular teenage girl who falls in love with a cool and introverted boy in the film Ada Apa Dengan Cinta? (What's Up with Love? Rudy Soedjarwo, 2002), gained her even wider recognition from critics and audiences alike. To broaden her horizons outside acting, Dian majored in philosophy at the University of Indonesia and graduated with her thesis, Beauty Industrial Complex, a study on the beauty industry that defines its own concept of 'beauty' and thus put women as both object and subject. Dian also worked as a human resources consultant for three and a half years. She then continued her study and she achieved her Master's Degree in Financial Management at the University of Indonesia in 2014, where she graduated cum laude. Marking her return to acting after a six-year hiatus, Dian starred in the romantic comedy 7/24 (director Fajar Nugros, 2014), and reprises her role as Cinta in the highly-anticipated sequel to Ada Apa Dengan Cinta? (director Riri Riza, 2016), which was also the best-selling film of that year. Her latest project is Kartini (director Hanung Bramantyo, to be released on April 2017), a biopic of an Indonesian heroine. In the film, Dian portrays the title role, who pioneered the education for girls and women's rights in the 1900s. Outside the limelight, Dian always kept coming back to her main passion: education, women empowerment, and supporting Indonesian culture and heritage. She founded Yayasan Dian Sastrowardoyo (Dian Sastrowardoyo Foundation), which focuses on education for girls and women empowerment. The foundation recently launched the Dian Scholarship program, which presents an enormous opportunity to better support young Indonesian women in pursuing higher education. Dian Sastrowardoyo was chosen as the Brand Ambassador for L'Oréal Paris in Indonesia since 2010, alongside Eva Longoria, Jennifer Lopez, and Blake Lively. In 2012, Dian represented L'Oréal Paris Southeast Asia at Cannes Film Festival, where L'Oréal Paris as the official make-up artist at the event. Despite her popularity and busy schedule, the darling of the Indonesia's cinema industry always finds time to spend with her family. Dian is happily married to entrepreneur Maulana Indraguna Sutowo in 2010 and enjoys her new role as the mother of their son, Shailendra Naryama Sastraguna Sutowo, now five, and daughter, Ishana Ariandra Nariratana Sutowo, who turns three this year. Show less «