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Sukanya is an actress, music composer, singer, Bharatnatyam dancer, and voice actor in South India. She has acted in all the South Indian industries: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. She was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Her debut movie was in Tamil cinema with 1991’s Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu. Her other Tamil films include Thirumathi Palanisamy, Thambi Pondatti, Senthamizh Paattu, Ilavarasan, and Solaiyamma. She has also acted in 1993’s Thalattu, 1994’s Mahanadi Click to look into! >> Read More... , 1996’s Puthiya Parasakthi, and 1997’s Thambi Durai. Her other films include 2000’s Good Luck, 2001’s Krishna Krishna, 2002’s Sri Bannari Amman, 2006’s Sillunu Oru Kaadhal, 2008’s Aayutham Seivom, and 2014’s Chandra. She has won the Tamil Nadu State Award for Best Actress. 

Some of Sukanya’s Malayalam movies include 1992’s Apaaratha, 1994’s Sagaram Sakshi Sagaram Sakshi is an Indian- Tamil language televi >> Read More... , 1996’s Thooval Kottaram, 1998’s Rakthasakshikal Sindabad, 2000’s Vinayapoorvam Vidhyaadharan, 2005’s  Udayon Susiemol, 2012’s Last Bench, and 2014’s Aamayum Muyalum. 

Sukanya's contribution to Telugu cinema consists of 1992’s Peddarikam and Amma Koduku, 1994’s Captain, 2005’s Sri, 2007’s Munna, 2012’s Adhinayakudu, and 2015’s Srimanthudu. Sukanya’s Kannada movies include 1992’s Guru Brahma and 2013’s Chandra. 

Sukanya has also appeared on television shows such as Asianet’s Swaami Ayyappan, Sun TV’s Anandham Anandham is among one of the most popular daily se >> Read More... , Raj TV’s Adhiparasakthi, and Jannal. She had a recent release with 2016’s Size Zero Click to look into! >> Read More... and had an upcoming release with Kaan, which is due to release in March.

Sukanya has also composed two albums Azhagu and Thirupathi Thirukudai Thiruvizha. 

Known for her love towards hair and makeup, she can be seen on the sets of the TV show Anandam, doing her co-star’s hairstyles. As a voice actor, she is known as the voice of Nandita Das Nandita Das is an actress and director extremely p >> Read More... in Kannathil Muthamittal. 

Sukanya married Sridharan Rajagopalan, who is an American Indian, in the year 2002. They, however, got divorced in 2003. 

Sukanya is a South Indian actress who appears in Tamil and Malayalam movies. She is also a singer, music composer, Bharata Natyam dancer and a voice-over artist.

Sukanya made her debut in the Tamil movie ‘Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu’. Her debut performance has exceeded expectations and won her a Filmfare award for the best actress in 1991. Since then, she started to act in Tamil and Malayalam movies mostly. Two years after debut, she was the recipient of the prestigious Filmfare award again in 1993 for ‘Walter Vetrivel’. Sathyaraj, who was the protagonist in the movie, also received critical acclaims and the movie went on to become a blockbuster, despite having started slow at the box-office.
 

Sukanya then acted in an average of 4 films per year, pairing with all lead actors of that time. She continued to star continuously in Tamil movies till 1997, when she took diversion to concentrate in Malayalam movies. After a few years, she returned to Tamil film industry, but her break was not futile enough to get back to her once high glory. 

Sukanya is known for her passion towards hair-styling. She groomed hair for many of her counterparts including Saranya, Kushboo and Ranjitha. She also entered the small-screen through the serial ‘Anandham’. It was seen that she was the hair stylist for her co-star Brinda Das Brinda Das is a Tamil Television Actress best know >> Read More... in the sets of that serial. 

Sukanya got into controversies when she acted in a kiss sequence in the movie ‘Mahanadi’ with Kamal Haasan Kamal Haasan is the most versatile actor that Indi >> Read More... . She married R. Sridharan, an Indian-American in 2002, whom she later divorced discreetly, even without his knowledge. 

She voiced for Nandita Das in the film ‘Kannathil Muthamittaal’. She has won over 5 Filmfare awards and has also composed 2 devotional albums.

DOB: 8th July, 1969

Movies acted: over 100 movies.

Serials acted: Anandham.

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Sukanya was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on July 8, 1969. She was first introduced to the big screen by Bharathi raja, a famous director who did the Tamil film Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu. She was idolized by many youngsters and because of her talent in acting she received many opportunities as a heroine. She is also a very brilliant dancer and singer. She has performed in many dance programs in stages in India and abroad.

She acted in the serial, Anandham as Shanthi, which made her extremely popular in small screen and people started calling her as Sukanya Shanthi from then on. She can portray different roles, be it a village girl or a city girl, she can easily adapt to the role that was assigned to her.  Sukanya is such a versatile actress.

Sukanya has accomplished a great success as an actress and her traditional role as a Bharata Natyam dancer. She has received a significant Kalaimamani Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu. Another proof that Sukanya is a talented artist is the way she shows good comic timings. Her expressions and the way she delivers her dialogues are very much appreciated by the audiences. Sukanya also anchored Magalir Mattum Click to look into! >> Read More... on Jaya TV, which was broadcasted every Sunday. She acted in the devotional serial, Adhiparasakthi and played the role of Parasakthi which was appreciated by the viewers. Sukanya received the Best Actress awards for the Tamil films, Chinna Gounder, Solaiyamma and P. Vasu’s Senthamizh Paattu by the Tamil Nadu State Government. She did many serials in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam languages. She said in an interview that she enjoys doing negative roles more than the ‘goody heroine’ characters as what she called it, because these characters have the element of power. The rise of the mythological films continued to increase and Sukanya was bagged in to play the role of Ravana’s daughter in the Tamil serial, Indrajit. She also did the Telugu serial, Bhakta Rama Das and essayed the role of Mahalakshmi.

Sukanya was also the presenter in the Bharatha Natyam game show, Thakadimitha which was aired internationally on Jaya TV. Sukanya introduces and demonstrates certain positions to show the Bharatha Nnatyam technique in a brief performance. Her competitors also showed their determination in other three sections and perform Bharatha Natyam to classical, Tamil music for films and western pop. The juries had a tough time on choosing the best dancer. The Indian Film Artists Association presented the Kalaichelvam Award to Sukanya.

She is also known to be the ‘Jack of Several Arts’. She is a dancer and an actress and aside from that, she is also a song writer and composer.

Sukanya was married to American-Indian Sridharan and their marriage was held at New Jersey in 2002.

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