Acting
Nov 18, 1992
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Vidhya Pradeep
Acting
Biography
Vidya Pradeep is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil and Malayalam films. Vidya Pradeep completed a Masters degree in biotechnology and then pursued a PhD at a leading eye hospital in Chennai. As a research scientist, she studied stem cell biology and continues to balance her commitments alongside work in the entertainment industry.She appeared in several commercials as a model and was spotted by director Vijay, who cast her in his successful family drama film, Saivam (2014) to portray Sara Arjun's mother. In the film, she put on weight to portray a middle aged woman, and the film and ensemble cast won positive reviews for their portrayal of a family. She then featured in the action drama, Adhibar (2015) as the lead actress opposite Jeevan, which opened to negative reviews Vidya then worked on Pandiraj's Pasanga 2 (2015) portraying the mother of a small child. In the film, she worked alongside actors Ramdoss, Karthik Kumar and Bindu Madhavi, while the producer Suriya also made a guest appearance.
Feature Films (32)
Prakash's troubled marriage is plagued by a paranormal presence. Seeking help from a black magician, he uncovers a dark family secret. Things get interesting when the spirit's true identity and resolution unravels.
Echo
Muthupandi is in search of Aishwarya, his teenage daughter, who goes missing after her private video gets leaked online. Can the innocent father trace his daughter, and identify the culprits responsible for putting him in this situation?
Chithirai Sevvaanam
When Kanal, a B-grade engineering college student, finds out that his dad went on to pay a hefty amount as “donation” to get him the seat, the liquor-swigging student is introduced to the underground world of the admission racket system in colleges.
Selfie
A series of murders happens in the city, involving a writer, a policeman, and a missing young woman, complicate things for the police department. A CBI officer takes up the case, hardly realising that he's about to unravel something more than he expected.
Infinity
Gowtham finds himself in need to overcome an increasingly dire predicament after accidentally killing a motorcyclist, hiding the body in his car trunk and feigns drunk driving to avoid suspicion at a police checkpoint.
Sattam En Kaiyil
The investigation over an IT professional's death faces twists and turns as truths about the victim start coming out and he is found to have had multiple marital relationships.
Ward-126
A young man goes after a gang that had shot his fiancée while robbing a jewellery store, where a minister has stashed some valuable diamonds that actually belong to a gangster in the US.
Yenni Thuniga
A para-psychology student Joshi and a Youtuber Priya tries to escape from the ghost of Rajendran by using a Ouija board.
Striker
Story of four women, whose lives are dominated, crafted, and judged by the society. The movie conveys how the lives of four women are affected changed and disturbed by external influences. The struggle of a women in breaking free, from the stereotypes designed by the society and the limitations that are enforced on them through her constant effort to live a happy life, an unjudged life, a simple life is portrayed though four character in the film.
Kannagi
A tale of five breathtaking and ravaging events occurring in one night. Samy murdering the man who cheated his daughter; A bunch of youngsters murder a local politician, butcher and transporting his remains in tea cans; A doctor is driving away hours before her wedding to settle an unfinished business; Parattai an out of work make-up man gets his hands dirty to earn some money; and there’s a burglar duo, and then there’s a cop, Raghavan NM, who tries hard to bind these threads together.
Powder
An NRI comes to Chennai and starts a real estate business. Even as his venture picks up, he learns that he is being cheated by a person he trusts the most and is jailed for fraud. How does he get out the web of deceit?
