Wamiqa Gabbi (born 29 September 1993) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Hindi and Punjabi films. She made her screen debut as a child with a brief role in the Hindi film Jab We Met (2007). She later established herself as a leading lady in Punjabi cinema with roles in comedy films, such as Tu Mera 22 Main Tera 22 (2013), Nikka Zaildar 2 (2017) and its sequel Nikka Zaildar 3 (2019), as well as the crime drama Kali Jotta (2023).

Gabbi expanded into other languages with the Tamil romance Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam (2016) and the Malayalam sports drama Godha (2017). She then transitioned into a period focused on Hindi streaming ventures, gaining critical acclaim in 2023 with her performance of an aspiring actress in the period drama series Jubilee, followed by her role as a spy's wife in Vishal Bhardwaj's thriller film Khufiya, which earned her a Filmfare OTT Award. She has since found success in mainstream Hindi cinema with the comedies Bhool Chuk Maaf (2025) and Bhooth Bangla (2026).

Gabbi was born in a Punjabi family in Chandigarh on 29 September 1993. Her father Govardhan Gabbi is an author and writes in Hindi and Punjabi languages. Her mother Raj Kaushal is a teacher who owns and operates her own junior high school. Gabbi studied at St. Xavier's School, Chandigarh. She then completed her B.A. from the DAV College, Chandigarh.

Gabbi made her film debut at the age of thirteen with a brief role in Imtiaz Ali's Hindi romantic comedy Jab We Met (2007), playing the cousin of Kareena Kapoor's character. She admitted to feeling uncertain about her future in the film industry while working on the picture, as she did not come from an acting family like Kapoor. After minor roles in Love Aaj Kal (2009), Mausam (2011), and Bittoo Boss (2012), Gabbi had her first lead role in the coming-of-age drama Sixteen (2013), portraying a teenager who enters a relationship with a significantly older man. Karan Anshuman of Mumbai Mirror commended Gabbi as "the standout" in a mediocre film. It emerged as a commercial failure, after which she professed to almost quitting acting in Hindi films due to persistent rejections.

Later that year, Gabbi made her debut into Punjabi cinema alongside Amrinder Gill and Yo Yo Honey Singh in the comedy film Tu Mera 22 Main Tera 22. It was a box-office success. Her subsequent roles in the Punjabi romances Ishq Brandy (2014) and Ishq Haazir Hai (2015) generally went unnoticed. In Bhale Manchi Roju, Gabbi expanded to Telugu cinema opposite Sudheer Babu as a woman abducted on her wedding day. Made on a shoestring budget, the film was a box-office success. In 2016, she made her debut into Tamil cinema with the romantic drama Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam opposite Balakrishna Kola. She was drawn to the character as it was a departure from the "chirpy" roles she had portrayed previously in her Punjabi films. Despite disliking the film's regressive themes, a critic for The New Indian Express labelled Gabbi "a talent to watch out for".

In 2017, she debuted into Malayalam cinema with the sports comedy Godha opposite Tovino Thomas. To prepare for her role as a Punjabi wrestler, she trained for the sport in Amritsar and lived with a coach for a month. In the film's climactic combat scene, Gabbi sustained physical injuries throughout her entire body. Her performance was positively received by critics including Firstpost's Anna MM Vetticad who described her as "luminous" and appreciated her emulation of a professional wrestler's mannerisms. Godha emerged as a sleeper hit at the box-office. Gabbi ended the year with the commercially successful Punjabi spiritual sequel Nikka Zaildar 2, for which she earned her first nomination for Best Actress (Critics) at the Punjabi Filmfare Awards. The romantic comedy Parahuna, co-starring Kulwinder Billa, was Gabbi's sole 2018 release. It also performed well comercially

In 2019, Gabbi had five releases—four of which were Punjabi. She began the year as part of an ensemble that included Prithviraj Sukumaran and Mamta Mohandas in the Malayalam science fiction film 9. In a mixed review for Film Companion, Neelima Menon wrote that Gabbi was "scintillating as the mysterious stranger". She followed this with the unremarkable Punjabi features Nadhoo Khan and Dil Diyan Gallan. Gabbi next returned to the Nikka Zaildar franchise for its third instalment as a struggling poet caught in a love triangle with Ammy Virk and Sonia Kaur's characters. In a positive review of the film for The Tribune_, Gurnaaz Kaur was appreciative of the actress' presence in the film. It emerged as a commercial success. Doorbeen, a drama centred on the illegal drug trade in Punjab, featured Gabbi as the love interest of Ninja's character.

In Galwakdi (2020), Gabbi played a free-spirited woman who falls in love with a librarian (played by Tarsem Jassar) that struggles with obsessive–compulsive disorder. In 2021, she made her foray into streaming with the crime drama series Grahan in which she played Manu, a Sikh girl who becomes romantically involved with a Hindu boy (played by Anshuman Pushkar) during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Shweta Keshri of India Today wrote that Gabbi and Pushkar "do proper justice while bringing alive the 80s romance to screen", but The Quint's Shefali Deshpande bemoaned that Gabbi's "fake freckles and Instagram filter like make up" detracted from the character's authenticity and also criticised the pair's poorly written roles. Gabbi next returned to Hindi cinema after eight years with Kabir Khan's sports drama 83 starring Ranveer Singh. She featured in a supporting role as cricket player Madan Lal's wife; Gabbi acknowledged that her role was minimal but chose to sign the film regardless out of admiration for Khan.