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| Name | Padmapriya |
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| Caption | Padmapriya Janakiraman in 2008 |
| Birthname | Padmapriya Janakiraman |
| Birthdate | 28th February 1980 |
| Birth place | Delhi, India |
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| Occupation | Actress, model |
| Othername | Padma Priya, Priya |
| Yearsactive | 2004 - present |
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Padmapriya Janakiraman (born February 28), better known mononymously as Padmapriya is an Indian film actress and model.
A classical Tamil bharatanatyam dancer, Padmapriya made her acting debut in the Telugu-language film Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi (2003), following which she appeared in a number of Malayalam and Tamil-language films alongside leading actors. In a span of 5 years, she has appeared in nearly 30 films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi
She did her schooling at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh Later, she pursued an MBA degree in finance at Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Bangalore. She was then working for GE Capital as a risk consultant in Bangalore and Gurgaon. She next starred in the Malayalam film Rajamanikyam again alongside Mammootty. The comedy film, featuring also Rahman and Sindhu Menon, was an universal blockbuster, becoming the most popular film of the year, Padmapriya's highest-grossing film till date and even the highest-grosser of Mammootty and in the history of Malayalam cinema itself, after ''.In 2006, she appeared in 6 films. Her first release that year was Vadakkum Nathan, following which she starred in the Tamil film Pattiyal, in which she portrayed a salesgirl at a garment company. The Vishnuvardhan-directed gangster film, in which she shared screen space with Arya, Bharath and Pooja Umashankar, was a commercial and critical success, becoming one of the highest-grossing Tamil films of the year. Later that year, she acted in the Malayalam-language film Karutha Pakshikal and Yes Your Honour, which both were well appreciated by critics. Padmapriya's performance in both the films received positive reviews, particularly her portrayal as Poongodi, a street beggar, in the former fetched her rave accloades and earned her several awards including a Filmfare Best Actress Award.
2007 she had even 7 releases, the first being Anchil Oraal Arjunan. Next she starred in Veeralipattu and Satham Podathey in Tamil film. The latter was a psychological thriller directed by Vasanth, where she enacted the role of a helpless wife, who gets kidnapped by her former husband, whom she had divorced due to his alcohol addiction. Following Satham Podathey, she appeared in the films Naalu Pennungal in Malayalam, directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Mirugam in Tamil, directed by Samy. In Naalu Pennungal, which fetched its director the National Film Award for Best Directing, she essayed the role of a street prostitute, whilst in Mirugam, she played a tomboyish wife to a ruffian, who behaves like an animal, for which she won the Tamil Nadu State Film Special Award for Best Actress.
Currently she is working on half-a-dozen films, which include her Hindi debut venture Striker opposite Siddharth Narayan, her Kannada debut film Thamassu alongside Shivrajkumar, a cowboy-based film Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam in Tamil, Whilst she will be enacting the role of a bar owner in Striker, she will appear as a human rights activist in Thamassu and as an army officer’s daughter in Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singam.
; Filmfare Awards South Winner
; Tamil Nadu State Film Awards
Category:Indian actors Category:Indian film actors Category:Tamil actors Category:Non Malayali actors acted in Malayalam-language films Category:Kerala State Film Award winners Category:Living people Category:Tamil people Category:People from Delhi Category:People from Hyderabad, India Category:Indian Hindus Category:1980 births
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