Early life: 

Elli Avram was born in Sweden. She grew up in Tyresö kommun, Stockholm. Avram attended Frans Schartau High School in Stockholm. She took an interest in figure skating, singing and dancing from her initial years. She received training in acting from her mother and aunt who run a theater together in Skåne County, Sweden. Avram felt a connection to India since her childhood. In an interview with the local Stockholm newspaper Mitt i, she said, "Even when I was five, I was fascinated by Indian dance and the colorful clothes." Since her father is a Greek musician, she found some Greek songs are related to Indian melodies. Avram wanted to be a Bollywood actress since her adolescence. She used to watch Hindi films on YouTube and bought Hindi movies recordings from different shops in Stockholm.

Biography: 

Elli Avram, the Swedish Greek actress was born as Elisabet Avramidou on the 29th of July, 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden. Presently she resides in Mumbai, India. Elli's father Jannis Avramidis is a Greek musician who lives in Sweden; and Maria Granlund, her mother is a noted Swedish actress. Maria Granlund had starred in Ingmar Bergman's 'Fanny and Alexander', which was an Oscar winning movie. She graduated with a degree in Society Economics from the prestigious Frans Schartau High School situated in Stockholm. Early in her life, Elli Avram had developed interests in dancing, singing and skating. Both her mother and aunt trained Elli in the field of acting. Her aunt is the owner of a theatre situated in Skane country, Sweden.

In her home country, Elli had done certain projects, the most noticeable being 'Förbjuden Frukt' which was a crime-drama-romantic film released in the month of December in 2008. Here Elli donned the character role of the protagonist's teen girlfriend. This film depicts all the atrocities which happens in crime and it also shows how a girl falls in love with a boy who has a criminal past attached to his life.

In the year 2010, she took part in the Miss Greece beauty contest. Elli was also seen on the Swedish television series, 'Gomorron Sverige'. In the month of September in 2012, Elle shifted to the city of dreams, Mumbai in order to pursue a career in acting in Bollywood. In an interview she once said that at the age of 14 she was greatly moved and inspired by the Bollywood movie, 'Devdas' starring Aishwariya Rai Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, and she wanted to sing and dance just like they do in Bollywood films. Her very first project was alongside actor Akshay Kumar in a television commercial for the brand, Eveready Industries, India. Eventually she was signed up for a lead role in Saurabh Verma's 'Mickey Virus', starring Manish Paul, Nitish Pandey, Puja Gupta, Varun Badola and Manish Choudhury. This was a big opportunity for her as she did not know how to speak in Hindi. When the audition round was over, she along with 200 other hopefuls was shortlisted.