RASHMIKA MANDANNA

Rashmika Mandanna (born 5 April 1996)[1] is an Indian actress and model who works predominantly in Telugu and Kannada language films.[2] She is a recipient of the Filmfare Award South and the SIIMA Award.

Rashmika Mandanna
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Rashmika promoting Bheeshma in 2020
Born5 April 1996 (age 25)
Virajpet, Karnataka, India
Alma materM. S. Ramaiah College
Occupation
  • Actress
  • model
Years active2016–present

Rashmika made her acting debut with the 2016 Kannada film Kirik Party. Later she made her Telugu debut with Chalo in 2018.[3] In the same year, she starred in the romcom film Geetha Govindam, which has become one of the highest profit earners in Telugu cinema, which earned her wide recognition.[4] Her third Telugu venture was the big budget film Devadas.[5] It marked her third consecutive successful film in the same year in Telugu cinema.[6]

She starred in the commercially successful films such as Kirik Party (2016), Anjani Putra (2017), Chamak (2017), Chalo (2018), Geetha Govindam (2018), Yajamana (2019), Sarileru Neekevvaru (2020), Bheeshma (2020), Pogaru (2021) and Sulthan (2021).

Rashmika Mandanna was born on 5 April 1996 in a Kodava-speaking family to Suman and Madan Mandanna in Virajpet, a town in Kodagu district of Karnataka.[7][8][9] She did her schooling in Coorg Public School (COPS), Kodagu before she pursued a pre-university course in Mysore Institute of Commerce and Arts. She later pursued a bachelor's degree in Psychology, Journalism and English Literature from the M. S. Ramaiah College.[7] Along with her studies, she pursued modelling and appeared in a couple of advertisements.[10]She won the clean and clear Times Fresh Face of India 2014 title which was awarded in January 2015[11] and was made the brand ambassador of Clean & Clear. Then she won the title of La Mode Bangalore's Top Model Hunt 2015, Season 2.[citation needed] Her pictures from the Fresh Face competition impressed the makers of the film Kirik Party who then cast her as the female lead for the film in March 2016.[12] ❤❤️❤️😍