Priyanka Chopra is now on the cover of Time Magazine!

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Priyanka Chopra is now on the cover of Time Magazine!

Dubai - One of six covers, the 33-year-old actress joins Leonardo di Caprio, Nicki Minaj, Mark Zuckerberg and Pricilla Chan, Christine Lagarde and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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Published: Thu 21 Apr 2016, 5:18 PM

Last updated: Sat 23 Apr 2016, 6:04 PM

Take a bow Priyanka Chopra! The Quantico and Baywatch star is the latest celebrity to grace Time Magazine's May edition as one of "The 100 Most Influential People".
One of six covers, the 33-year-old actress joins Leonardo di Caprio, Nicki Minaj, Mark Zuckerberg and Pricilla Chan, Christine Lagarde and  Lin-Manuel Miranda.
She announced the news with an excited tweet on Twitter.

"I don't want to be called an actor, I don't want to be called a star," Priyanka says in an interview to Time, "I think that the movies that I do, I'm irreplaceable and the boys are replaceable."
The Bajirao Mastani star looks gorgeous on the black and white cover in a black outfit, and her hair styled to absolute perfection. 
Ever since she starred in ABC's hit show Quantico, the former Miss World has won a People's Choice award, presented an Oscar, appeared on talk shows hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon and is now filming her first Hollywood film - Baywatch, opposite Dwayne Johnson, who is also on this year's 100 list. Not bad for her first year in Hollywood, eh?
However the actress is not the only Indian on the list. Also included are RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, tennis star Sania Mirza, Flipkart co-founders Binny and Sachin Bansal and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Other big names from the entertainment industry whose names have been featured in the list include British singer Adele, comedian Aziz Ansari, actor Gael García Bernal, actor Idris Elba, singer Ariana Grande, actress Taraji P. Henson, filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, actor Oscar Isaac, reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner, actor Dwayne Johnson, model Karlie Kloss, rapper Kendrick Lamar, actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress Melissa McCarthy, actress Gina Rodriguez, actor Mark Rylance, and actress Charlize Theron.
The Time article was written by none other than her Baywatch co-star Dwayne Johnson titled "A Star Rising Higher".
He writes, "Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards-a massive star. When we connected around the time she started Quantico, we immediately hit it off. She has drive, ambition, self-respect, and she knows there's no substitute for hard work. We always quote the saying "Wear your success like a T-shirt, not like a tuxedo," and she really does-as big a star as she is, as global as she is, as beautiful as she is, there's this interesting quality of relatability."
Johnson further shared that he feels himself "lucky enough" to be working with Priyanka in "Baywatch".
Kudos to Priyanka for her latest achievement!
Here are the other five covers.


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