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Dino Morea 

Details

Profession

Actor, Supermodel, Producer, Television personality, Entrepreneur

Age

48 years as of 2023

Date Of Birth

9 December 1975

Zodiac Sign

Sagittarius

Birthplace

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Height

5 Feet and 11 Inches

Net Worth 

$10 million

Notable Work

Raaz, Happy New Year, Jism 2

Instagram

@thedinomorea

Known as

Chocolate Boy

 

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Biography

dino-morea-imageDino Morea was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, on December 9, 1975. He is a producer and actor who is known for his work in Bollywood and has also appeared in several Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu films. He is considered one of the biggest movie stars in the world and is called 'Chocolate Boy' by the media. Over the course of his career, which has lasted more than 20 years, Morea has won many awards and appeared in more than 50 films, ranging from romance to horror, but usually in action films, making him one of the most popular Hindi film actors since the 2000s.

Morea worked hard to become a successful fashion model. Then he started getting offers to be in films. Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi was the first movie he was in. In 2002, he got his big break with the movie Raaz, which made him well-known. He also acted in and helped make the films Jism 2 and Helmet. He also played roles in web series like Mentalhood, Hostages, and Tandav, Kaun Banegi Shikharwati on different OTT platforms. Morea got a lot of praise for playing The Empire, which became his most famous role and his biggest commercial success. He won the Indian Television Academy Awards for his role in the web series, which was praised by critics.

Age

Dino Morea was born on December 9, 1975, in Bangalore, India. He is 48 years old as of 2023.

Education

In the beginning, Dino Morea was a student at Bangalore Military School. Later, he continued his education at St. Joseph's College in Bangalore, and he also attended Clarence High School.

Family 

dino-morae-familyDino Morea was born in Bangalore to an Italian father, Ronaldo, also known as Ronnie Morea, and a Portuguese-Indian mother, Edna D'Clasz Morea. His mother was related to the Scots, the Irish, the English, and the Spanish. His mother is from Kochi, in a place called Kalamassery. He lived in Italy for the first eleven years of his life. He is the middle brother of three. His older brother is Nicolo Morea, and his younger brother is Santino Morea.

Relationship

Bipasha Basu

bipasha-basu-dino-moreaBipasha Basu and Dino Morea started dating in 1996. They appeared in a number of films together. He and Bipasha were at the centre of controversy in 1998 when they appeared in an ad for Swiss knickers maker Calida in which he bit Bipasha's knickers. It was eliminated in the end. After the success of their 2003 film, Raaz, he ended his relationship with her. 

Lara Dutta

lara-dutta-dino-moreaLara Dutta and Dino Morea had begun dating in 2009. However, Dino never stopped his ex-girlfriend Nandita Mahtani, from openly flirting with him. Lara had broken up with him at that point.

Nandita Mahtani

Dino-Morea-fiancee-Nandita-MahtaIn the beginning of 2010 and continuing until 2017, Dino Morea was in a relationship with Nandita Mahtani.

Early Life

Dino Morea, born in Bangalore, comes from a diverse heritage. His father, Ronaldo Morea, known as Ronnie, is of Italian descent, while his mother, Edna D'Clasz Morea, is of Portuguese-Indian descent. His mother's ancestry includes Scottish, Irish, English, and Spanish roots, and she hails from Kalamassery in Kochi. Dino spent his formative years in Italy for the first 11 years of his life before returning to India. Among his two brothers, Nicolo Morea is older, and Santino Morea is younger. Dino initially attended Bangalore Military School and later graduated from St. Joseph's College and Clarence High School in Bangalore. He gained recognition while working as a model for a fashion company, which led to his introduction to the film industry. In 1995, he won the Gladrags Manhunt Contest and represented India in the Manhunt International competition, claiming the second position. Further showcasing his modelling skills, Dino also emerged victorious in the Gladrags supermodel contest in 1999.

Career

dino-morea-career-imageHe started his career as a model. He was a fashion model for several companies. In 1995, he won the Gladrags Manhunt Contest and went to the Philippines for Manhunt International, where he came in second. In 1999, he won a Gladrags supermodel contest. Morea's first role was as Sonic on the TV show Captain Vyom, which was his first job as an actor. His first movie was Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi, which he did with Rinke Khanna. He was nominated for the Zee Cine Award for Best Male Debut, which went to Mukesh Tiwari for his movie China Gate.

He got his big break in the Tamil movie Kandukondain Kandukondain by Rajiv Menon, which adapts Jane Austen's sense of reason and feelings with skill. Raaz, which starred Morea, was the most popular horror movie of 2002. It put Morea on the top list in the Hindi film industry. The critics liked how he acted out the part of Aditya Dhanraj. Shah Rukh Khan also liked Morea's performance and told him, Your movie is doing really well. He and Bipasha Basu won the Zee Cine Award for Dynamic Duo. Only Raaz was a big hit with audiences and critics alike, and it turned out to be his best film ever.

In 2007, he released four albums, all of which were moderately successful and met with mixed reviews. Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee, his first movie of the year, did not do well at the box office. Aftab Shivdasani, Nauheed Cyrusi, Anjori Alagh, Nikita Anand, Rajat Bedi, and Mohnish Bahl were also on his team. He played Rajeev Arora, who wants to become a CEO and a billionaire. In the same year, he sang the song Deewangi Deewangi with Malaika Arora and Salman Khan in Farah Khan's movie Om Shanti Om.

Dino Morea’s Business

Morea is a businessman in India who does well. In 2012, he and cricket player MS Dhoni started a company called Cool Maal to sell merchandise. In 2013, he started Clockwise Films, his own production company. He put money into Nihar Manwatkar's Unlaze, which is a networking app that helps people with similar interests find each other. He also put money into a new company called Vertuals. It is an advertising agency for audio and video. He works with an app called Vebbler that lets people share photos. Morea and Nandita Mahtani work together to run a business called Playground. 

He is one of the most important investors in LivePools.com, which is a sports-tech company in India that focuses on skill games in the fantasy sports space. In Mumbai, he owns a place called Crepe Station Café. It is known for having the best food in Europe. Crepe Station Café is one of the Indian chains that is growing the fastest. He is the owner of DM Fitness Pvt. Ltd. He opened several fitness centres in Wadala and Bandra in 2013. Hrithik Roshan and Aditya Thackeray were the ones to start this.

Best Performances of Dino Morea

Raaz 

The Indian horror movie Raaz came out in 2002. It was directed by Vikram Bhatt. Dino Morea, Bipasha Basu, and Malini Sharma play the main roles in the movie. Most people agree that it is one of the best horror films ever made. The movie is a kind of unofficial remake of the 2000 movie What Lies Beneath. It was the most profitable film of 2002 and the first in the Raaz series. It was the second highest-grossing movie of the year. Basu's performance was praised, and she was nominated for the 48th Filmfare Award for Best Actress because of it. Their music also got them several nominations for Filmfare Awards.

The story is about a group of college students in Ooty who have a picnic in a forest. One of the girls, Nisha, dies in a way that can't be explained by science. She attacked her boyfriend like a monster for no reason and was rushed to the hospital. Just before she died, her face and voice completely changed, which made the doctors confused. The police ask Professor Agni Swaroop, who is supposed to be an expert on the paranormal, to look into the case. After looking into it, Swaroop says that she was taken over by a bad spirit. He says that this spirit has come back to life for a reason and won't stop until that reason is met.

Pyaar Impossible

Pyaar Impossible! is an Indian romantic comedy that came out in 2010. It was directed by Jugal Hansraj and put out by Yash Raj Films. Its main characters are played by Uday Chopra and Priyanka Chopra. Advika Yadav, Anupam Kher, and Dino Morea play supporting roles. 

The movie's story is mostly about Alisha, the most beautiful girl at Ankert University in California. She is played by Priyanka Chopra. She doesn't know it, but awkward and nerdy Abhay (Uday Chopra) is in love with her. Alisha is out with her friends one night and falls into a river by accident. Abhay jumps in and saves her from drowning, but before she wakes up, her friends take her away. The next day, Alisha's angry father comes and takes her out of college, so Abhay can't see her either.

Jism 2

Jism 2 is a Hindi-language erotic thriller movie from India that came out in 2012. It was produced by Dino Morea, directed by Pooja Bhatt, and written by Mahesh Bhatt. It is the follow-up to Bipasha Basu's sleeper hit Jism from 2003, and it is the Bollywood debut of Sunny Leone, an Indo-Canadian actress who used to be in pornographic films. Jism 2 was first shown on the popular Indian TV show Bigg Boss on December 1, 2011. This was a first in the history of Indian cinema. Mahesh Bhatt said that Jism 2 reminded him of the Italian love story Last Tango in Paris. The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has given Jism 2 an A rating for its strong sexual content. 

The story is about a woman named Izna, who is played by Sunny Leone. She is lying on the grass and is very sick. Her voice says that she wants to ask forgiveness for her sins before she dies. Then the movie jumps back six months. Aayan Thakur, an intelligence officer played by Arunoday Singh, goes up to Izna, a former pornographic actress. Aaryan and his father, Security Chief Guru Saldanah (Arif Zakaria), want to use Izna as a honey trap to get important information from Izna's ex-boyfriend Kabir Wilson (Randeep Hooda). Kabir used to work for the Intelligence Agency, but he quit and is now a hired killer.

Helmet

Helmet is an Indian comedy movie that will come out in 2021. It was released in Hindi and directed by Satram Ramani. Sony Pictures Films India and Dino Morea were the producers. The main characters are played by Aparshakti Khurana, Pranutan Bahl, Abhishek Banerjee, Ashish Verma, and Sharib Hashmi. The movie first aired on ZEE5 on September 3, 2021. It tries to change the taboos and fears that people in India have about using condoms.

Lucky and Rupali are in love and want to get married, but Rupali's father doesn't want them to because Lucky is an orphan and makes less money than the boy he has picked for Rupali. Lucky wants to start his own band and tries to get a loan, but Rupali's father and uncle are so powerful that they tell everyone not to help him. Lucky comes up with the idea to steal electronics from a truck and asks his two friends, Sultan and Minus, to help. Lucky, Sultan, and Minus break into the truck, but they only find condoms inside instead of electronics. Then, the three people have no choice but to sell the condoms in a different way, like by wearing helmets so that no one can recognise them.

Agent

Agent is a 2023 Indian spy action movie in Telugu that was written and directed by Surender Reddy. Akhil Akkineni, Mammootty, Dino Morea, Sakshi Vaidya, and Vikramjeet Virk are among the actors who are in it. The movie is the first one that Vaidya and Morea have done in Telugu. The movie was said to be coming out in September 2020. Hyderabad, Budapest, Visakhapatnam, and Manali were all places where scenes were shot. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and production problems, the release was pushed back more than once. Agent came out on April 28, 2023, and got bad reviews from critics. It was a box office bomb, which made producers Anil Sunkara and Akkineni apologise and admit that they started making the movie without a script.

The story is about RAW chief Colonel Mahadev, aka The Devil, who is questioned about planning an impossible mission to kill two terrorists. Mahadev says that the two terrorists were working for a private terror group called The Syndicate, which is run by Central Minister Jai Kishan and Dharma, aka The God. Meanwhile, Ramakrishna Ricky aka Wild Saala is a young man who has tried and failed many times to become a RAW agent. After seeing how good he was, Mahadev gives Ricky a mission to catch Dharma by pretending to be a newbie. It turns out that Dharma was a former RAW agent who went bad after Mahadev forced him to kill his girlfriend. Now, he wants to spread a deadly virus called Super Cells During a fight with Mahadev, the device with the virus on it is damaged, which causes a technical problem.

Career Timeline 

Filmography

Year

Film

Role

2023

Agent

Dharma The God

2023

Bandra

TBA

2023

Meri Patni Ki remake

TBA

2021

Helmet

Biker

2017

Solo

Raunaq Sachdeva

2015

Alone

Kabir

2014

Happy New Year

Himself

2012

Jism 2

N/A

2012

Hungama Ho Gaya

Kevin

2010

Pyaar Impossible!

Varun Sanghvi / Siddharth Sidhu

2009

Acid Factory

JD

2009

Main Aurr Mrs Khanna

Sanjay

2008

Bhram

Shantanu

2008

Meeting Se Meeting Tak

Rahul Bose

2008

Anamika

Vikram Singh Sisodiya

2008

Kabhi Bhi Kahin Bhi

Raj

2008

Har Pal

Ambi

2008

Heroes

Sahil Naqvi

2008

Karzzzz

Ravi Verma

2008

Gumnaam – The Mystery

Dev

2008

Sargna

Johnny

2007

Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee

Rajeev Arora

2007

Om Shanti Om

Himself

2007

Dus Kahaniyaan

Dino

2007

Deha

Rocky

2006

Aksar

Rajveer Singh (Raj)

2006

Holiday

Dino Angel

2006

Fight Club: Members Only

Karan Chopra

2006

Tom, Dick, and Harry

Tom

2006

Julie

Shashi Kumar

2006

Aap Ki Khatir

Danny Grover

2005

Chehraa

Akash Mehta

2004

Ishq Hai Tumse

Arjun Batra

2004

Plan

Bobby

2004

Insaaf: The Justice

IPS Officer Abhimanyu Singh

2004

Rakht: What If You Can See the Future

Sunny

2003

Baaz: A Bird in Danger

Raj Singh

2003

Chhal: Game of Death

Hrithik

2003

Sssshhh...

Rocky

2002

Raaz

Aditya Dhanraj

2002

Gunaah

Aditya Srivastava

2000

Kandukondain Kandukondain

Captain Vinod

1999

Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi

Siddhant

Television

Dino Morea has been on TV in a number of different shows and roles over the years. In the 1998 movie Captain Vyom, he played Sonic, the Lord of Sound Waves. In 2003, he appeared on Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai as a guest. In 2005, he played Karan Barua on the TV show Remix. Dino was a contestant on Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi (season 3) in 2010 and I Can Do That in 2015. He was also a judge on Femina Miss India 2015 and a guest on Comedy Nights Bachao and Spices & Secret with Zareen in 2016. In 2018, he was a guest on India's Next Top Model, season 4. Dino was a sub-judge on Myntra Fashion Superstar in 2019 and played Jason Daniel in the series Pyaar Actually (Real is Rare) that same year. In 2022, Femina Miss India 2022 will have him as a judge.

Web Series

Dino Morea has had several important roles in web series throughout his career. In the year 2020, he played Ranbir in Hostages and Akash in Mentalhood. In 2021, he played Muhammad Shaybani Khan in The Empire and Professor Jigar Sampath in Tandav. He also played Rudro in the web series Kaun Banegi Shikharwati in 2022.

Philanthropy

In addition to acting, Morea likes to play football and basketball, and he gives money to charities and other groups. On April 8, 2009, Morea and Lara Dutta travelled to a Mumbai suburb to watch the National Basketball Association (NBA) open a newly renovated basketball court. His trip to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup final was a highlight. He leads by example as captain and midfielder for the charity-focused All Stars Football Club. He participated in the game in March 2013 to benefit the non-profit Magic Funds Organisation, which helps disadvantaged kids. His official involvement with Pet Fed began in 2016 when he invested in the company.

Net Worth

Dino Morea's net worth is estimated to be around $10 million by a number of different sources. Dino has had a successful career in the entertainment industry as an actor and model, which has helped him make a lot of money. But it's important to remember that estimates of net worth can be different and can change over time based on things like income, investments, and assets.

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