
Acting
Aug 19, 1990
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Semmalar Annam
Acting
Biography
Semmalar Annam is an Indian film actress who rose to fame with the critically acclaimed Tamil drama film Ammani (2016) directed by Lakshmy Ramakrishnan. She has also directed and acted in more than fifteen short films during her studies at college. Semmalar is well known for her street plays performed at Coimbatore for many social and environmental causes.
Feature Films (29)

Annam the woman who is left alone by her husband cremates the bodies from the government hospital for her survival .She faces many problems because of her caste that continues till her deathbed.
Sennai

Conservative middle-aged fisherman Singaram cares for his orphaned niece and nephew who he loves deeply. As Singaram works hard to provide for his family, he also tries to arrange a groom for his niece. But she rejects the many suitors he brings, and he soon learns that his niece is in love with her fellow female teacher. Ostracized by his community, Singaram tries to come to terms with his niece being a lesbian and through the process he learns to empathize with the plight of the village barber Alankaram, who is transgender.
Catamaran

Set in the 7th century, Kodhi, an young hot-blooded warrior from the Einar clan, believes that his birth is destined to free his fellows from the nomadic life that they lead and goes on an impossible mission, to revolt against and defeat the Pandiyan king Ranadheeran.
Yaathisai

The story revolves around the sentimental attachment of a family towards a cot that has been passed through the family for three generations. It has been their family’s companion through their ups and downs for around 250 years and everyone are attached to it emotionally. It has survived as a unperishable common identity link or reference passed from one generation to the next within the family. It was a place for last breadth for some and first breadth for some. Thus, the non living entity becomes a living one among the family members by the memories itched by it in their minds.The screenplay is based on how the antique cot , which the family emotionally revere lose it and how they struggle to recover the same , whether they succeed or lose it forever ,is the question which is answered in the plot.
Kattil

A carefree young man gets into a live-in relationship with his colleague, and gets her pregnant. What happens next?
Bachelor

A constable, takes up a case that requires him to find a pair of gold earrings that belonged to a dead woman.
Thandatti

A honest cop tries to track down the brain behind a series of robberies and murders, but things turn personal when his family become pawns in the criminal's game.
Valimai

After a head injury, cowardly newspaper cartoonist Sathya hears a voice in his mind, foretells events and puts him in precarious situations and forces him to take on a corrupt politician.
Maaveeran

Appatha, who has spent all her life in Kaayilanpatti village, fears dogs. And in an unexpected situation, that fear turns to love. What was the reason for this transformation?
Appatha

A notorious child trafficker gets into an ambulance putting the life of a family at risk. Will the family fight him or succumb to the antagonist's evilness?
Thunikaram

A piano player pretending to be visually-impaired, unwittingly becomes entangled in a number of problems as he witnesses the murder of a former film actor.
Andhagan

Two fathers, from different age groups, are on a quest to mend things with their children, while a son goes after his father to redeem himself.
Karumegangal Kalaiginrana
Television & Series (3)

Inspector Sakthi Pandiyan is determined to solve the murder of an influential businessman alongside an 'all-women' task force. The truth that she unravels as she digs deeper into the case tests her limits in ways unimaginable.
Vadham

A sceptic one-eyed crime branch Inspector Rishi Nandhan assisted by his two trusted sub-inspectors Ayyanar and Chitra, investigates strange and mind-bending cases involving supernatural or paranormal phenomena. He stops at nothing in his efforts to find the truth behind unexplainable murders while also battling various challenges in his personal life.
Inspector Rishi

Anu travels to Varanasi for her mother’s last rites, where a priest asks her to deliver an ancient relic to a temple in Tamil Nadu. While she plans to disobey his command, fate has other plans.
