Nayanthara

Nayanthara was born on Nov 18, 1984 in India. Nayanthara's big-screen debut came with Vismayathumbathu directed by Fazil in 2004. Nayanthara is known for Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy directed by Surender Reddy, Chiranjeevi stars as Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy and Amitabh Bachchan as Gosayi Venkanna. Nayanthara has got 28 awards and 21 nominations so far. The most recent award Nayanthara achieved is South Indian International Movie Awards. The upcoming new movie Nayanthara plays is Jawan which will be released on Sep 07, 2023.

Nayantara was born as Diana Mariam Kurien in a Malayali Nasrani (Syrian Christian) family to an Indian Army Officer father, Kurien Kodiyattu, and Omana Kurien, in Bangalore, Karnataka. She has a brother, Leno, who resides in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.After her father's retirement the family settled down in Kerala where she continued with her college studies but she did her schooling in several schools in Chennai, Jamnagar, Delhi, and Gujarat.During the year 2003, while still in college, she was spotted by director Sathyan Anthikkad who cast her in a Malayalam movie. Two years later, she went on to act in Tamil and Telugu movies. As she became popular she also appeared in Kannada language movies.She soon acquired the reputation of acting opposite male actors who are almost twice as old. She starred in her first Malyalam film opposite Jayaram, and then in "Chandramukhi" with renowned Indian actor Rajnikanth, then with other aging actors like Sarath Kumar, Mohanlal, and Mammotty.She has been cast to play the lead role in a much younger Simbu's directorial debut, in which he also has the lead role. Nayanthara and Simbu's intimate life-sized posters created shock waves in Chennai, which were subsequently pulled down by the police. Similar excitement resulted when glamorous life-sized posters were posted all over Chennai