- published: 14 May 2016
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Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian film actress and model who appears in Telugu and Tamil films. Born to Malayali and Telugu parents, Samantha was brought up in Chennai and pursued a career in modeling during her late teens.She is fluent in Tamil and English. Despite signing up to Ravi Varman's Moscowin Kavery in 2007, her first release happened to be the critically acclaimed 2010 Telugu romance film, Ye Maaya Chesave, directed by Gautham Menon. She has then later appeared in critically acclaimed and commercially successful Telugu movies like Brindavanam and Dookudu establishing herself as a leading contemporary actress in Telugu Cinema.
Born on April 28, 1987 to a Malayali mother and a Telugu father, Samantha was brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu as the child of the family to Prabhu and Ninette and two elder brothers Jonathan and David. As part of her education, Samantha completed her schooling from Holy Angels Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School, T. Nagar. She also has a degree in commerce at Stella Maris College, Chennai.. When she was studying B.Com in Stella Maris College, she also did modeling for Naidu Hall Retail Shopping Mall which later beckoned her a movie offer in Tamil and from there she got a call from Gautham Menon.