The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has inducted actress-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas as a member of the organization.
According to its official website, the PGA is a non-profit trade organization that represents, protects, and promotes the interests of all members of the producing team in film, television, and new media.
It has over 8,000 members connecting the full producing team in scripted, non-fiction, documentary, animation, and new media sectors. The guild shared the announcement on Twitter.
“#MembershipMonday: @producersguild welcomes actress, singer, and film producer @priyankachopra as a member. Ms. Chopra Jonas has 14 producer credits to her name, including an executive producer credit for #TheWhiteTiger,” the post read.
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The 39-year-old actress Priyanka Chopra expressed her gratitude towards the PGA on Twitter Wednesday.
“Grateful to be inducted. Thank you @producersguild,” Priyanka Chopra wrote.
The actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas made a name for herself in her home country with movies such as Fashion, Kaminey, and Bajirao Mastani.
She is one of the rare stars from Bollywood to have launched on a successful career in the West with the TV show Quantico as well as films, including Baywatch and Isn’t It Romantic.
She also runs a production house, Purple Pebbles Pictures, which has backed the National Award-winning Marathi films Ventilator and Paani.
Priyanka Chopra most recently executive produced and starred in Ramin Bahrani’s The White Tiger, which was released on Netflix earlier this year. The film, based on Aravind Adiga’s 2008 novel of the same name, was nominated for best-adapted screenplay at the 93rd Academy Awards.
The actress Priyanka Chopra will next be seen in the highly-anticipated The Matrix: Resurrections, starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
Some of her forthcoming projects are the rom-com film Text For You, the Amazon Prime Video’s thriller series Citadel, a film on spiritual guru Osho Rajneesh’s aide Ma Anand Sheela, and Farhan Akhtar’s directorial Jee Le Zaraa alongside Katrina Kaif and Alia Bhatt.
