Miruna Lisara Magar (; born July 18, 1999) is a Nepalese actress. She made her film debut in 2018 with ''Lalpurja''. She starred in a lead role in the 2022 film '' Kabaddi 4: The Final Match'', which became the highest-grossing Nepali film of all time. She starred in the 2023 film '' Jaari'', which also became one of the highest-grossing Nepali films.

Personal life

Miruna Magar was born in

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; her family returned to

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when she was two years old. Her family originally belonged to

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, and she lived her early years there until she was twelve. Her father served in the British Army's

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. She migrated to

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with her family when she was twelve and completed her schooling there. She came back to Nepal in 2016, where she got the opportunity to learn acting.

Career

Magar had her first role in the 2018 film ''Lalpurja;'' she also starred in ''Rose'' in the same year. In 2019, she starred in ''Saino'' and ''Cha Cha Hui'', which mostly received negative reviews from the critics, although her performance was praised. She then starred in the record-breaking '' Kabaddi 4: The Final Match'' in 2022, which became the highest-grossing Nepali film of all time, collecting over 22.73

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. In 2022, while Magar was in promotion of her film '' Kabaddi 4: The Final Match'', there was an incident where she claimed a monk touched her inappropriately, and she slapped him in public and humiliated him for the misbehavior. The monk asked for forgiveness. She filed a lawsuit against him, which she later dropped. Some people called it a publicity stunt; they even protested and wanted to ban the film. Consequently, it was banned in the Indian state of

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. Later, when the incident started to get worse, she reached an agreement with the monk and apologized to the entire

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community for the negative impact of the incident. In 2023, she starred in '' Jaari'', which earned 13 crore in its first two weeks of release and became one of the highest-grossing Nepali films. Magar was chosen as a brand ambassador of 12th Nepal European Union Film Festival which took place between April 28 to April 30, 2023.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Magar, Miruna 21st-century Nepalese actresses Living people Nepalese film actresses Actresses in Nepali cinema 1994 births