Surabhi C. M., also known as Surabhi Lakshmi is an Indian film, television, and stage actress who appears in

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 2 ...

films and television. She won the

National Film Award for Best Actress The National Film Award for Best Actress (officially known as the Rajat Kamal Award for the Best Actress) is an honour presented annually at the National Film Awards of India since 1968 to an actress for the best performance in a leading role wi ...

in 2016 for portraying the role of a struggling middle-aged mother in the Malayalam film ''

Minnaminungu ''Minnaminungu'' () is a 2017 Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Anil Thomas and written by Manoj Ramsingh. The film features Surabhi Lakshmi as a struggling middle-aged mother, her character has no name in the film. The film's soundt ...

''. She is known as Pathu through the Malayalam Comical Television Series '' M80 Moosa'' which launched on Media One TV.

Personal life

Lakshmi was born to parents Andy and Radha on 5 October 1987. She is from

Narikkuni Narikkuni () is a town in Kozhikode district in the state of Kerala, India. According to Census 2011 information the location code or village code of Narikkuni town is 627402. Narikkuni town is located in Kozhikode Tehsil of Kozhikode distric ...

Kozhikode Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second l ...

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. She gained a BA degree in Bharathanatyam with first rank from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady. She gained a MA degree in

Theatre Arts Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit and M.Phil in Performing Arts from Mahatma Gandhi University. As of 2017, she is a Ph.D student in performing arts at the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit.

Career

Lakshmi won the reality show "Best Actor" on Amrita TV. She won the

in the

64th National Film Awards The 64th National Film Awards was an award ceremony during which the Directorate of Film Festivals presents its annual National Film Awards to honour the best films of 2016 in the Indian cinema. The awards were announced on 7 April 2017, and th ...

, the special jury mention in the Kerala State Film Awards 2016, and the Malayalam Film Critics Award 2016 for Second Best Actress, all for her performance in the film ''Minnaminungu''. She has acted in more than twenty Malayalam films and two television serials.

Filmography

Films

Short films and Web series

Television

Theater performance

Awards

References

External links

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Official Facebook page

Press Information Bureau, Government of India (64th National Film Awards, 2016 Announcement)
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