Vani Viswanath

Vani Viswanath (born 13 May 1971) is an Indian film actress. She has acted in Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi and Telugu movies. Vani won the Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Actress for her performance in Susanna directed by T. V. Chandran. She was termed as Mollywood's "Action Queen".

Early life

Vani is born as second child among five children to Chennai settled Malayali parents Thazhathuveettil Vishwanadhan, an astrologer and Girija, a housewife in Ollur, Thrissur in 1971. Her mother hails from Kannur District and her father hails from Thrissur District. She has four siblings. She studied at Thrissur till fourth grade, later family shifted to Madras and continued her education there till tenth grade. She got her first role while she was studying in tenth grade and hence she discontinued her studies and concentrated on movie career.

Career

She has appeared predominantly in Malayalam, Telugu movies. She also appeared Kannada & Tamil Movies. She was among the big stars of her time in the South. Her Tollywood movie Gharana Mogudu with Tollywood superstar, Chiranjeevi was a huge hit. Vani also acted in two hindi movies with Superstar Mithun Chakraborty. in Jung (1996_film) and Bhishma (1996 film). both movies are hit movies.