Samyuktha Hegde

Samyuktha Hegde is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Kannada and Tamil films. She made her film debut with the Kannada film Kirik Party opposite Rakshit Shetty, directed by Rishab Shetty. She played the role named Arya, for which she won Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Kannada. She made her debut in Tamil language through Comali opposite Jayam Ravi and Kajal Agarwal.

Samyuktha Hegde
Samyuktha Hegde during Puppy movie press meet
Born	(1998-07-17) 17 July 1998 (age 27)[1] Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2016–present

She also participated in reality shows MTV Roadies, Bigg Boss Kannada (2017) and MTV Splitsvilla, where she ended up as the first runner up (2018).

Early and personal life

Samyuktha was born in Bangalore to a Christian mother and a Hindu Brahmin father.^[2] Her native village is Kelaginamane, a place in the Uttara Kannada district. She did her schooling from St. Paul's English School. She discontinued her degree course in BA psychology and journalism in Jain University, Bangalore to continue pursuing dancing and acting.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In 2016, Hegde was cast as a parallel female lead in Rakshit Shetty's comedy-drama Kirik Party. Impressed by her Facebook profile, the makers called her for an audition that she subsequently cleared.^{[citation needed]} The film received critical acclaim and emerged a major commercial success.^[3] Hegde's performance playing the love interest of Shetty's character won praise for Hegde; a reviewer for The Times of India stated that "Samyuktha Hegde, as the bubbly Aarya, has a tough act to follow given the peppy first half and impresses by holding her own in crucial scenes",^[4] while The New Indian Express's reviewer felt that Hegde "outshone in the film along with the main character Karna".^[5]

In 2016, Hegde appeared as a contestant in the reality television show MTV Roadies. She said that being a part of the show had been her childhood dream.^[6]

In October 2018, Hegde entered MTV Splitsvilla in its eleventh season as a wild card entrant and became the Runner up of the season.

In 2019, she made her debut in Tamil film through Comali opposite to Jayam Ravi and Kajal Agarwal. Her role as Nikitha, was praised by all the audiences, though her role was minimum in the film. She learned Tamil language for the film and dubbed on her own. After that she packed more films in Tamil film industries.

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In the Bangalore Times Most Desirable Women list, Hegde was placed 9th in 2017, 13th in 2018 and 21st in 2020.^[7][8][9]

Filmography

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Films

Year	Title	Role	Language	Notes	Ref.
2016	Kirik Party	T. Arya	Kannada	Debut	[10]
2017	College Kumar	Keerthi			[11]
2018	Kirrak Party	Satya	Telugu		[12]
2019	Omme Nishyabda Omme Yuddha	Deaf Girl	Kannada		[13]
	Watchman	Anitha	Tamil		[14]
	Comali	Nikitha Krishnamoorthy			[14]
	Puppy	Ramya
2022	Theal	Thilaka
	Manmadha Leelai	Poorni
	Raana	Dancer (Herself)	Kannada	Special appearance in the Song "Malli Malli"	[15]
	Thurthu Nirgamana	Sindhu
2024	Kreem	Aksha/ Pearl			[16][17]

Television

Year	Name	Role	Language	Channel	Notes	Ref
2017	Bigg Boss Kannada 5	Contestant	Kannada	Colors Kannada	Wild card entry; entered - day 58, ejected - day 66	[18]
	MTV Roadies 15		Hindi	MTV India	Semi finalist	[6]
2018	MTV Splitsvilla 11			MTV India	Wild card entry; runner up
2021	Puncch Beat 2	Meesha		ALT Balaji	Web series

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2017	Filmfare Awards South	Best Supporting Actress – Kannada	Kirik Party	Won	[19]
	South Indian International Movie Awards	Best Female Debut – Kannada		Nominated	[20]