Minissha Lamba (born on January 18, 1985 in New Delhi, India to a Punjabi-speaking Sikh family) is an Indian actress.

When Lamba was growing up, her father was in the hospitality business and this gave Lamba the opportunity to travel around the country and meet many people.

She speaks Hindi, Punjabi, and English fluently.

Lamba's long term ambition was to become a journalist.

While studying for a degree in Delhi, Lamba pursued modelling as a hobby and soon became a well-placed model in the Indian modelling industry.

She had not really decided to act in films, but she loved modeling and was fortunate enough to be selected to model for Cadbury.

Examples of Lamba's early modelling work include several television commercials for companies such as LG, Sony, Cadbury, Hajmola, Airtel, Sunsilk, and also others.

In 2004, she majored in English with honours from the University of Delhi.

She got her first break unexpectedly, when she was auditioning for a Cadbury commercial in Delhi. Bollywood Director, Shoojit Sircar, approached her and signed her to to act in his yet untitled movie.

Then came her first movie in 2005 called "Yahaan", which was directed by Shoojit Sircar.

In 2008, she acted in Siddharth Anand's film Bachna Ae Haseeno which stars Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone along with Ranbir Kapoor in the lead roles. This movie is produced by Yashraj Films. -Sampurn Media