Nayanthara

Career

Nayanthara was born on 8th November 1984 as an Orthodox Syrian Christian in Tiruvalla, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala. She did her schooling at various parts of India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu) as her father was an Air Force Official. She joined Balikamadom High School, Thiruvalla for +2, then joined Marthoma college in Thiruvalla for her bachelors degree (English Literature). While at college, she was spotted by director Satyan Anthikkad and cast opposite Jayaram in Mansinakkare. Afterwards, she co-starred alongside Mohanlal in Naatturajaavu and in Fazil's Vismayathumbathu. She was also cast with Mammootty in Thaskaraveeran (Dubbed into Tamil as Yuvaraj) and Raapakal.

She has also starred in several Tamil and Telugu movies. She was cast opposite Sarath Kumar in Ayya and with Rajnikanth in Chandramukhi. Her later films are Vallavan (Tamil), Gajini (Tamil), Yogi (Telugu) etc flopped except Ghajini. She regained her throne in Kollywood through Billa in 2007. Her next movie Yaaradi Nee Mohini was a stupendous success and she became the Queen of Kollywood next to Trisha Krishnan. Nayanthara is currently a leading star in Southern Cinema, with leading roles in films with Rajnikanth - Kuselan, with Ajith Kumar - Aegan, with Vijay - Villu, with Vishal - Sathyam. She is currently the highest paid South Indian actress. She was paid Rs. 1 crore for Sathyam, Kuselan and Aegan.

Personal life

Nayantara created headlines when publicity posters of her movie Vallavan sprung up around Chennai showing her Vallavan co-star, Silambarasan and her kissing, who she was rumoured as involved with at the time. However,the pair broke up citing differences soon after the film was released.Further controversy was created when rumours leaked out that the plot of Silambarasan's forthcoming film, Kettavan, was based on the couple's true love story.

Filmography

Year	Film	Co-Stars	Director	Language	Role	Other notes
2003	Manassinakkare	Jayaram	Sathyan Anthikad	Malayalam	Gauri
2004	Vismayathumbathu	Mohanlal	Fazil	Malayalam	Reetha Mathews
	Natturajavu	Mohanlal	Shaji Kailas	Malayalam	Katrina
2005	Ayya	Sarath Kumar, Prakashraj	Hari	Tamil	Selvi
	Chandramukhi	Rajnikanth, Jyothika, Prabhu Ganesan, Vineeth	P. Vasu	Tamil	Durga	Dubbed into Telugu as Chandramukhi
	Thaskara Veeran	Mammootty	Pappan Pramod	Malayalam	Thankamani	Dubbed into Tamil as Yuvaraj
	Rappakal	Mammootty	Kamal	Malayalam	Gauri
	Ghajini	Surya Sivakumar, Asin Thottumkal	A. R. Murugadoss	Tamil	Chitra	Dubbed into Telugu as Ghazini
	Sivakasi	Vijay, Asin Thottumkal	Perarasu	Tamil	Nayanthara	Cameo Appearance
2006	Kalvanin Kadhali	S. J. Suryah	Tamilvaanan	Tamil	Haritha
	Lakshmi	Venkatesh, Charmme Kaur	V. V. Vinayak	Telugu	Nandhini	Dubbed into Malayalam as Lakshmi
	Boss	Akkineni Nagarjuna, Poonam Bajwa	V.N. Aditya	Telugu	Anuradha	Dubbed into Malayalam as Boss - I Love You
	Vallavan	Silambarasan, Sandhya, Reema Sen	Silambarasan	Tamil	Swapna	Dubbed into Telugu as Vallavan
	Thalaimagan	Sarath Kumar	Sarath Kumar	Tamil	Meghala
	E	Jeeva	S. P. Jhananathan	Tamil	Jothy
2007	Yogi	Prabhas	V.V. Vinayak	Telugu	Nandini	Dubbed into Malayalam as Yogi
	Dubai Seenu	Ravi Teja	Srinu Vaitla	Telugu	Madhumathi	Dubbed into Malayalam as Dubai Seenu
	Sivaji: The Boss	Rajinikanth, Shriya Saran	Shankar	Tamil	Guest Role	Cameo Appearance Dubbed into Telugu as Sivaji
	Tulasi	Venkatesh	Boyapati Srinu	Telugu	Vasundhara Ram
	Billa	Ajith Kumar, Namitha	Vishnuvardhan	Tamil	Sasha
2008	Yaaradi Nee Mohini	Dhanush	Jawahar	Tamil	Keerthi
	Kuselan	Rajnikanth	P. Vasu	Tamil	Nayantara	Made simultaneously in Telugu as Kathanayakudu
	Sathyam	Vishal Krishna	Rajesekhar	Tamil	Deivalakshmi	Filming
	Twenty: 20	Mammooty, Mohanlal	Joshy	Malayalam		Cameo appearance Filming
	Aegan	Ajith Kumar	Raju Sundaram	Tamil		Filming
	Villu	Joseph Vijay	Prabhu Deva	Tamil		Filming