Acting
Jun 15, 1986
Razole, Andhra Pradesh, India
Anjali
Acting
Biography
Anjali (born 16 June 1986) is an Indian actress who works primarily in Tamil and Telugu cinema, with appearances in Kannada and Malayalam films. She began her entertainment career as a model and made her acting debut in the Telugu thriller Photo (2006). Her breakthrough in Tamil cinema came with Ram's psychological thriller Kattradhu Thamizh (2007), for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South and the Vijay Award for Best Debut Actress. She won consecutive Filmfare Awards for Best Actress – Tamil for her roles in Vasanthabalan's tragedy Angadi Theru (2010) and M. Saravanan's romantic drama Engaeyum Eppothum (2011). Her performance in Angadi Theru also earned her a Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize. In Telugu cinema, Anjali played Seetha in the family drama Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2013), for which she received the Nandi Special Jury Award. Her other Telugu films include Balupu (2013), Masala (2013), Dictator (2016), and the horror-comedy Geethanjali (2014), for which she won the Nandi Award for Best Actress. She later appeared in the Tamil anthology Paava Kadhaigal (2020), the Telugu courtroom drama Vakeel Saab (2021), and the Malayalam thriller Iratta (2023). She reprised her role in the horror-comedy sequel Geethanjali Malli Vachindi (2024). She won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu for her role as Rathnamala in the Telugu action drama Gangs of Godavari (2024). Her later films include S. Shankar's political action thriller Game Changer (2025) and the Tamil film Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai (2026).
Feature Films (53)
Jyothi Lingam, a bright student, leads a happy life in his small village. One day, tragedy strikes when his father, the only earning member of the family, dies in an accident.
Angadi Theru
Sundaram lives in a town where people are educated and yet indulge in illegal activities. Despite his best efforts, he gets caught in a smuggling racket and earns the enmity of a gangster.
Thambi Vettothi Sundaram
Komboodhi is the leader of a tribe that steals from the rich to survive. He befriends Varipuli, unaware of his past, only to learn that his village has been hunting him to offer his life to god.
Aravaan
A young Tamil-postgraduate, frustrated with the circumstances and futility of his job, slowly loses his mental balance and becomes a sociopath.
Kattradhu Thamizh
Vinayak, a suspended cop, helps a group of four men rob cricket betting money amounting to 500 crores INR. When it comes to splitting the amount, betrayal hits the team hard and a chase ensues.
Mankatha
Two buses collide, with tragic results. We see the past of four passengers: Amudha, a village girl visiting Chennai for the first time, falls in love with Gautham, a stranger, who shows her around the city. And then there's Kathiresan, a metal worker, who's infatuated by Manimegalai, a nurse.
Engaeyum Eppothum
Television & Series (6)
From amusement to awe, the nine human emotions of Indian aesthetic theory are explored in this anthology series.
Navarasa
Many contestants live in a purpose-built house and are isolated from the rest of the world. Every week, housemates nominate two of their fellow housemates for eviction.
Bigg Boss
Jhansi, a boutique owner, is an independent woman staying with her partner and his daughter, but an amnesiac. When she saves a girl from a molester at a wedding, Jhansi’s past catches up with her and rekindles several bitter memories from her childhood and the violence follows.
Jhansi
An accident followed by memory loss has Divya trying to piece her life together. Will her near and dear ones support her quest for the truth?
Fall
Pushpa, a courtesan, arrives in Peddapalli and falls in love with Darshi. While the couple prepares for their new life together, their dream to be married is shattered when Darshi gets forced to marry someone else.
Bahishkarana
At times dark, at times disturbing, four short films explore stories of those who dare to dream and desire — and those determined to stand in their way.
