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Rashmika Mandanna

Rashmika mandanna is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Telugu and Kannada films in addition to Tamil and Hindi films. She is a recipient of four SIIMA Awards and a Filmfare Award South. Her most commercially successful films include Kirik Party (2016), Anjani Putra (2017), Yajamana (2019), Sarileru Neekevvaru (2020), Bheeshma (2020), Pogaru (2021), Pushpa: The Rise (2021), Sita Ramam (2022) and Varisu (2023). She won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress тАУ South for her performance in the Telugu romantic comedy Geetha Govindam (2018).

Early Life and Education

Rashmika Mandanna was born on 5 April 1996 in a Kodava family to Suman and Madan Mandanna in Virajpet, a town in Kodagu district of Karnataka. She completed her early schooling from Coorg Public School in Kodagu. She studied for a bachelor's degree in Psychology, Journalism and English Literature at the M. S. Ramaiah College of Arts, Science and Commerce in Bangalore.

Career

In 2016, Rashmika made her acting debut in Kirik Party, which went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of the year in Kannada. Rashmika's performance received praise from multiple reviewers. She won SIIMA Award for the Best Debut Actress for the role. In 2017, Rashmika appeared in two Kannada films Anjani Putra and Chamak. She was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actress тАУ Kannada at 65th Filmfare Awards South for her role in the film Chamak.

In 2018, she starred in Geetha Govindam opposite Vijay Deverakonda, which was also wildly successful. In 2020, Rashmika starred opposite Mahesh Babu in Telugu film Sarileru Neekevvaru, which became one of the highest-grossing Telugu films. In the same year she appeared in the film Bheeshma. In 2021, her first release was with the film Pogaru. Later in Sulthan alongside Karthi and in Pushpa: The Rise starring Allu Arjun. In 2022, Rashmika starred in Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu. She then appeared in Sita Ramam and Goodbye. In 2023, she starred in her second Tamil film Varisu opposite Vijay which was one of the highest grossing Tamil film.

Rashmika was at 24th position of тАШBangalore Times 25 Most Desirable Women of 2016тАЩ and the winner of the 'Bangalore Times 30 Most Desirable women of 2017'. In October 2021, she peaked Forbes India's most influential actors on social media.

Rashmika has signed a Hindi film Animal opposite Ranbir Kapoor.

Personal Life

Rashmika began dating her co-star Rakshit Shetty during making of Kirik Party, and the couple got engaged on 3 July 2017 in a private party at her hometown of Virajpet. The couple mutually broke off their engagement in September 2018, citing compatibility issues.

Awards and nominations

YearTitleRole(s)Language(s)NotesRef.
2016Kirik PartySaanvi JosephKannada  
2017Anjani PutraGeethaKannada  
ChamakKushiKannada  
2018ChaloL. KarthikaTelugu  
Geetha GovindamGeethaTelugu  
DevadasPoojaTelugu  
2019YajamanaKaveriKannada  
Dear ComradeAparna "Lilly" DeviTelugu  
2020Sarileru NeekevvaruSamskruthiTelugu  
BheeshmaChaithraTelugu  
2021PogaruGeethaKannada  
SulthanRukmaniTamil  
Pushpa: The RiseSrivalliTelugu  
2022Aadavallu Meeku JohaarluAadhyaTelugu  
Sita RamamAfreen / WaheedaTelugu  
GoodbyeTara BhallaHindi  
2023VarisuDivyaTamil  
Mission MajnuNasreenHindi  
Animal daggerTBAHindiFilming 
Pushpa 2: The RuledaggerSrivalliTeluguFilming 
Untitled Venky Kudumula film Not yet releasedTBATeluguFilming 
Rainbow Not yet releasedTBATamil, TeluguBilingual film; filming 

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