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Samantha Ruth Prabhu, originally Samantha Akkineni, is an Indian actress who primarily works in the Telugu and Tamil cinema industries. She was born on April 28, 1987. She has won numerous honors, including two Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Awards, six South Indian International Movie Awards, and four South Filmfare Awards. She has made a name for herself as one of the top actresses in Tamil and Telugu films.
While obtaining a degree in commerce, Samantha worked part-time on modeling jobs. She received offers for roles in movies very quickly, and in Gautham Vasudev Menon’s highly regarded Telugu romance Ye Maaya Chesave (2010), she made her acting debut. For this role, she won the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Actress as well as a Nandi Award. Then, for her roles in the movies Neethaane En Ponvasantham (2012) and Eega, Samantha became the second actress in history to win the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil and the Filmfare Award for Best Actress—Telugu in the same year (2012). She has since mostly chosen to play the leading lady in hero-centric Telugu and Tamil movies, finding box office success with movies like Dookudu (2011), the family dramas Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2012) and Attarintiki Daredi (2013), as well as AR Murugadoss’s Tamil action movie Kaththi (2014). Samantha’s performance in the movie Aa (2016) received favorable reviews and brought her her fourth Filmfare Award, and her subsequent flicks Theri (2016), 24 (2016), Mersal (2017), Rangasthalam (2018), and Mahanati (2018) all did well financially. She received more favorable reviews for her performances in the 2019 films Super Deluxe, Majili, Oh! Baby, as well as her sole 2020 release, Jaanu.
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Who are Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s parents? What Do They do For a living?
Samantha was born on April 28, 1987, in Alappuzha, Kerala, to a Malayali mother Ninette Prabhu, and a Telugu father Joseph Prabhu. She was raised in Pallavaram, a neighborhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, with her two older brothers, Jonathan and David, and she became fluent in Tamil during this time. Despite having mixed heritage, she has identified herself as Tamilian. Samantha completed her schooling at Stella Maris College in Chennai after attending Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School as part of her studies. She started modeling around the end of her college studies, mainly when working with Naidu Hall, where director Ravi Varman initially saw her.
Does Samantha Ruth Prabhu have siblings?
Samantha Ruth Prabhu has two elder brothers, Jonathan and David.
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