Shraddha Rama Srinath known Professionally as Shraddha Srinath (born 29 September 1990) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in

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and

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films. She debuted with the

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film '' Kohinoor'' and gained wide acclaim for her role in the Kannada psychological thriller ''

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'' (2016) for which she won the

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and also for her performances in ''

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'', '' Urvi'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. For the latter, she won

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award. She won the Zee Cine Awards Telugu for Best Find of the Year - Female in 2020 for her role in ''Jersey''.

Early life and education

Shraddha was born on 29 September 1990 in the town of

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, Jammu & Kashmir. Her father was an officer in the

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of the

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and her mother was a school teacher. Kannada is her mother tongue. She was raised all over India and lived in the towns of

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(

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(Madhya Pradesh),

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(Uttarakhand) Belagavi (Karnataka),

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(Assam), and

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(Telangana). After graduating from 12th from Army School Secunderabad, she moved to

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to study law at the Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies.

Career

After graduating from law school, she started working as a real estate lawyer with a Bangalore-based real estate company and then moved to a French retail company as the real estate legal advisor. However, along with her full-time corporate job, she continued to act in plays and also appeared in several advertisements. She was called to play the second female lead in the Malayalam film called '' Kohinoor'', directed by Vinay Govind, which released in September 2015. Her Kannada debut happened in May 2016 with ''

'' which was directed by Pawan Kumar which premiered at the

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and then subsequently released in India and worldwide. Srinath received critical acclaim for this movie and received the

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. Shraddha's 2017 releases are '' Urvi'', directed by B. S. Pradeep Varma and ''

'', directed by

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. She debuted in the Tamil industry by doing a small role in Mani Ratnam's '' Katru Veliydai''. Later she played the female lead in R. Kannan's movie ''

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'' opposite

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and R. J. Balaji in the lead and also in Pushkar Gayatri's movie ''

'' opposite

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. In ''

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'' she paired opposite

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, directed by Gautham Ramachandran. She started to get more offers in South Cinema Industry. She had appeared only in a song of '' The Villain'', along with

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. In 2019, her first release was her

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debut with

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in ''

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'', which is directed by

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. After ''Milan Talkies'', her next release of the year was her

debut opposite Nani in the sports drama ''

''. The Times of India newspaper wrote that "Shraddha Srinath makes an impressive Telugu debut, as a woman who's head-over-heels in love with her husband, but is still not someone who will agree to put up with his carelessness." Her next release of the year was her

movie ''K-13'', where she is paired opposite

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. Her next release of the year was her Kannada movie '' Rustum'', where she is paired opposite Shiva Rajkumar. Her next after ''Rustum'' was ''

'', the Tamil remake of

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movie ''

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'', with Ajith. Her next release of the year was ''

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'', where she is paired opposite Aadi Saikumar. In 2021 her releases were

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s ''

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'' and ''Chakra''. In 2022, her first release was

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starrer

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'' Aaraattu''.

Upcoming projects

As of March 2020, She is filming for ''Godhra'' and Rishabh Shetty's ''Rudraprayaga'' and she also shooting for Anup Bhandari's ''Vikrant Rona''. In Telugu she has completed shooting for Ravikanth Perepu's ''

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''.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Srinath, Shraddha Indian film actresses Actresses from Bangalore Living people Actresses from Jammu and Kashmir Actresses in Tamil cinema Actresses in Kannada cinema Actresses in Malayalam cinema Filmfare Awards South winners Zee Cine Awards Telugu winners 21st-century Indian actresses 20th-century births Actresses in Telugu cinema Actresses in Hindi cinema Year of birth missing (living people)