Andreanne Nouyrigat

Andreanne Nouyrigat, known professionally as Andreanne,^[1] is a French actress, who lives and works primarily in India. She has appeared in supporting and leading roles in Tamil cinema.^[2][3][4] She was a contestant on Cooku with Comali Season 4, a Tamil-language cooking show.^[5]

Andreanne
Born	Andreanne Nouyrigat France
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Actress, model
Years active	2015–present

Career

Andreane Nouyrigat was born in France, but settled and spent her childhood in Pondicherry, India from the age of six. For her higher studies, she returned to France and trained to become a veterinarian nurse, but later returned to India to attempt to enter the film industry.^[6] In 2000, Andreanne was an extra in the telefilm Passeur d'enfants^[7] set in Pondicherry and then later appeared in the French stageplays, La Jeune fille, le diable et le moulin (2001) produced by Olivier Py and Sketches (2004) by Jean-Philippe Ribes. She then played an extra in the "Athiradee" song in Shankar's Sivaji (2007) starring Rajinikanth and Shriya Saran.^{[citation needed]} Post her studies, Andreanne began modelling for Indian companies such as Shelton Shirts, DVY photoshoot, Kumaran Silks Online, Vijaya Ganapathy Stores and Freshdesk amongst other opportunities. She also walked down the ramp for the designer, Chaitanya Rao, in 2014.^{[citation needed]}

Andreanne then moved on to appear in Tamil films, often dubbing her own lines as she is familiar with the Tamil language. In 2013, she first shot for the low-budget films Kanden Kadhal Konden (2016) and Saalaiyoram (2016), but her first release was C. V. Kumar's Enakkul Oruvan (2015), where she featured as a friend of the character portrayed by Siddharth. She later notably played a ghost in the horror film Zero (2016), the comedy lead opposite Soori in the Sivakarthikeyan-starrer Rajini Murugan (2016) and a Russian woman in Rum (2017).^{[citation needed]} Andreanne then portrayed her first lead role in the comedy film, Melnaattu Marumagan (2018) alongside Rajkamal.^[8] In the film, she played a foreigner from France and dubbed her own lines in Tamil.^[9][10]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role(s)	Language(s)	Notes
2007	Sivaji	Dancer	Tamil	Uncredited
2015	Enakkul Oruvan	Marti
2016	Rajini Murugan	Andrea
	Zero	Lilith
	Kanden Kadhal Konden	Ashwini's friend
	Saalaiyoram	NGO worker
	Veera Sivaji	Foreign lady
2017	Rum	Russian lady
2018	Melnaattu Marumagan	Andreanne		Lead

Television

Year	Show	Role	Channel	Notes
2023	Cook with Comali Season 4	Contestant	Star Vijay	4th Runner-up