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Sumbul Touqeer (born 15 November 2003) is an Indian television and film actress. She gained recognition in 2020 due to her leading role in the StarPlus's television series Imlie in which she played the role of Imlie.

Sumbul made her silver screen debut with Anubhav Sinha's Hindi film Article 15 (2019) where she played the role of Amali, although it was a small role, but she impressed everyone with her acting skills.

Early life
Sumbul Touqeer was born on 15 November 2003 in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh and brought up to Katni, Madhya Pradesh where she spent the initial 6 years of her life. When Sumbul's age was 6, her parents were separated. Sumbul and her younger sister Saniya who is also a television actress both were raised by her father as a single parent. Her father Touqeer Hasan Khan, then decided to move to Delhi with the family and spent 5-6 years. Sumbul's father was a dance choreographer in Delhi while Sumbul and Saniya used to perform in her father's choreographed Krishna and Ram Leela plays, which sparked their interest in dancing which further led to interest in acting. One day her father pondered about the future of their kids and thought that they can't do anything while staying in Delhi so ultimately decided to pack his bags and move them all to Mumbai from Delhi so that they could try their luck in the entertainment industry after noticing that his children, Sumbul and Saniya had a keen interest in dance.

She completed her High School from the NTCC High School in Malad West, Mumbai, India and 12th standard from a private school. She then started studying commerce, but then decided to put it on hold and apply for a course in cinematography.

She did her training in acting at the Sehejmoodra Acting Academy, run by Monika Verma. Dancing and acting were interchangeably Sumbul’s favorite hobbies. In school, Sumbul and her sister would passionately take part in plays premised around Krishna and Ram Leela.

Career
Sumbul started her career as a dancer with participation in Dance reality shows like India's Dancing Superstars, aired on StarPlus in 2013 and Hindustan Ka Big Star, aired on Big Magic in 2014. In the early stages of her acting career, she was not at all interested in acting but on her father's advice she started auditioning for acting roles and soon got a small role in Har Mushkil Ka Hal Akbar Birbal and Jodha Akbar in 2014 as a child actor which aired on Big Magic and Zee TV respectively.

During 2014-16 being a child actor, she was still playing some side and small roles in TV series like Aahat, Gangaa, Baalveer, Mann Mein Vishwaas Hai. As she improved in acting, she got some good roles and appeared in TV series like Waaris, Chakradhari Ajay Krishna, Chandragupta Maurya and got important role of lead actor's sister in Ishaaron Ishaaron Mein that aired on Sony Entertainment Television in 2019 but her acting career was not taking off.

But 2020 was the year in which she rose to fame all over India with popular Hindi TV show Imlie that aired on StarPlus, where she played the lead character of Imlie, a young and smart village belle. She was only 17 of age at that time and became one of the top TV actresses with Imlie's success.

Before Imlie's success Sumbul also made her Bollywood debut with Article 15 (film) in 2019 where she played the role of Amali, although it was a small role, but she impressed everyone with her acting skills. In the same year she appeared in Vaaste Music Video playing the role of lead's friend.

In 2022, she participated in Game show Ravivaar With Star Parivaar as a StarPlus's show Imlie contestant and became the first runner up. Sumbul Touqeer aka Imlie was declared as the best performer of the show and won Maruti Suzuki Ertiga ZXI car as a prize.

After wrapping up with Imlie she appeared in Ishq Ho Gaya Music Video with Fahmaan Khan, her co-star from the Imlie TV series.

In addition to her acting career, Sumbul also participated in Season 16 of the well-known reality show Bigg Boss (Hindi season 16) in 2022 and created the record of becoming the first teenager and the youngest contestant in the history of Bigg Boss (in any language) to stay in the house for more than 100 days.

In 2023, she participated in Game show Entertainment Ki Raat Housefull which aired on Colors TV. After that she released her Music Video Sazishen with Sumedh Mudgalkar.

Almost after a year in 2023 she made a comeback on Television with a TV show Kavya – Ek Jazbaa, Ek Junoon that aired on Sony Entertainment Television where she is playing the lead character of IAS Kavya Bansal.