The role of Sonakshi earned Erica some major appreciation of her entire career. However, this relationship is disproved by Dev’s mother and the show focuses on reconciliation among the three characters. After the death of his father Dev grew close to his mother and eventually fell in love with Sonakshi Bose (Erika’s character). In the show, Erica played the love interest of Dev Dixit (Shaheer Sheikh’s character) who was a successful business tycoon.
Her major breakthrough came with her lead role in the TV serial Kuch Rang Pyaar Ke Aise Bhi (2016).
The movie received overall positive reception while Erica was praised for her “maturity of character portrayal” and “good job as a software professional.”. In 2014, Erica’s first Telugu romanic film, Galipatam hit the theatres. Though the movie didn’t do very well on the box office, Erica’s portrayal of her character Natasha earned her appreciation. In the same year she debuted in her first Hindi movie Babloo Happy Hai, a movie about friendship and love. In 2014 Erica made her debut in her first Kannada movie Ninnindale, a romantic-comedy, where she starred alongside actor Puneeth Rajkumar. The film was well received after which Erica signed a couple of other movies. Erica played the role of a software engineer and the love interest of actor Bharath Srinivasan. The director of the movie came across pictures of Erica at his colleague’s office and instantly decided to cast her in his movie. She was next seen in the same year in the Tamil psychological thriller film Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu. In 2013, Erica first starred in the Disney TV show The Suite Life of Karan & Kabir, based on the famous American Disney show The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. The show ran for 2 seasons and Erica had a very minor role in the show. Even before this, she won titles like ‘Pantaloon Femina Miss Fresh Face 2011’ and ‘Pantaloons Femina Miss Maharashtra’. Her first major breakthrough came when she finished among the top 10 finalists in Femina Miss India Beauty Pageant 2012. Careerīefore Erica’s career at Indian television matured, she undertook a lot of minor and major modelling assignments. This made her financially and mentally independent at just a tender age of 16 years.
Due to her father’s prolonged illness and after his third heart attack, Erica pursued modelling in full swing to support her family financially. Andrew’s College Bandra in Mumbai but dropped out to pursue a career in modelling and acting. Eventually she enrolled herself for a BA degree at ST. She then did her pre-degree course from SIES College, Sion.
EducationĮrica has done her schooling from Holy Cross High School, Kurla in Mumbai. She has an elder brother Jermaine Fernandes who works at ‘Ernst & Young’ in Mumbai. Erica has been raised with Catholic values and even sports a ‘cross’ tattoo on her right wrist to prove her faith. Erica’s mother, Lavina Fernandes has worked with AirIndia and Bank of America. Her father, Ralf Fernandes is a designer by profession and also works as a manager for his daughter. She has a decent height of 5’5″ and weighs around 50 Kg.Įrica was into a Konkani Mangalorean Catholic family of Karnataka. Physical DescriptionĮrica has a very petite body structure. AgeĮrica was born on in Mangalore, Karnataka and as of today she is 25 years old. She has worked in Kannad, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi movies before venturing into the realm of Indian television and has made head turns with her beauty and talents. Apart from this, she has a versatile movie list to her credit. Erica J Fernandes is an Indian television actress best known for her roles in TV shows Erika Rang Pyaar Ke Aise Bhi (2016) and Ekta Kapoor’s Kasautii Zindagi Kay 2 (2018). Even before starring in TV shows, Erica did modelling and rose to fame after she participated in Femina Miss India 2012.