Nithya Menen

Nithya Menen (born 8 April 1988) is an Indian actress and playback singer. She mainly acts in Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, and Tamil films. Menen is known for her strong acting skills and has won many awards.^[1]

Nithya Menen
Menen in 2011
Born	(1988-04-08) 8 April 1988 (age 37) Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Nationality	India
Occupation(s)	Actress, playback singer
Years active	2005–present

Early life and education

Nithya Menen was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. She comes from a Malayali family and finished her early education in Bangalore. She graduated with a degree in English Literature from Manipal University.^[2]

Acting career

Nithya started her acting career as a child in a small role in an English movie called The Monkey Who Knew Too Much. Later, she acted in the Kannada film 7 O'Clock. Her major breakthrough came with the Telugu movie Ala Modalaindi in 2011, which made her very popular.^[3]

She has since acted in many hit movies in various South Indian languages. Some of her popular movies are:

Movies

Key

†	Denotes movies that have not yet been released

List of Nithya Menen film credits

Year	Title	Role	Language	Notes	Ref.
1998	Hanuman	Munna	English	Child artist
2006	7 O' Clock	Anu	Kannada		[4]
2008	Aakasha Gopuram	Hilda Varghese	Malayalam		[5]
2009	Josh	Meera	Kannada
	Vellathooval	Jiya George	Malayalam		[6]
	Kerala Cafe	Nithya			[7]
	Angel John	Sofia			[8]
2010	Apoorvaragam	Nancy
	Anwar	Asna
2011	Ala Modalaindi	Nithya	Telugu
	Urumi	Chirakkal Bala/ Daisy da Cunha[a]	Malayalam		[9]
	Nootrenbadhu/ 180	D. Vidya Lakshmi	Tamil	Bilingual film
			Telugu
	Violin	Angel	Malayalam		[10]
	Veppam	Revathy	Tamil		[11]
	Aidondla Aidu	Gowri	Kannada	Segment: "Payasa"
	Makaramanju	Model	Malayalam		[12]
2012	Ishq	Priya	Telugu		[13]
	Thalsamayam Oru Penkutty	Manjula Ayyapan	Malayalam
	Karmayogi	Moonumani
	Doctor Innocentanu	Anna		Special appearance	[14]
	Bachelor Party	Neethu			[15]
	Ustad Hotel	Shahana			[16]
	Poppins	Ammu		Anthology film
2013	Okkadine	Shailaja	Telugu
	Jabardasth	Saraswati			[17]
	Myna	Myna	Kannada		[18]
	Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde	Shravani / Bangaram[a]	Telugu
2014	Malini 22 Palayamkottai	Malini	Tamil		[19]
	Bangalore Days	Natasha Francis	Malayalam	Cameo appearance	[20]
2015	Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju	Nazeera Khanum	Telugu		[21]
	JK Enum Nanbanin Vaazhkai	Nithya	Tamil		[22]
	100 Days of Love	Sheela	Malayalam		[23]
	S/O Satyamurthy	Valli	Telugu		[24]
	Kanchana 2	Ganga	Tamil		[25]
	O Kadhal Kanmani	Tara Kalingarayar			[26]
	Rudhramadevi	Muktamba	Telugu		[27]
2016	24	Priya Sethuraman	Tamil		[28]
	Okka Ammayi Thappa	Mango / Satyabhama[a]	Telugu		[29]
	Kotigobba 2 / Mudinja Ivana Pudi	Subhashini / Shubha	Kannada	Bilingual film	[30]
			Tamil
	Janatha Garage	Anu	Telugu		[31]
	Iru Mugan	Ayushi	Tamil
2017	Mersal	Aishwarya Vetrimaaran			[32]
2018	Awe	Krishnaveni	Telugu		[33]
	Geetha Govindam	Nithya		Special appearance	[34]
2019	NTR: Kathanayakudu	Savitri		Special appearance
	Praana	Tara Anuradha	Malayalam		[35]
	Mission Mangal	Varsha Pillai	Hindi		[36]
2020	Psycho	Kamala Das IPS	Tamil		[37]
2021	Ninnila Ninnila	Maya	Telugu		[38]
	Gamanam	Shailaputri Devi		Cameo appearance	[39]
	Skylab	Gouri Venkataraju		Also producer	[40]
2022	Bheemla Nayak	Suguna Nayak			[41]
	19(1)(a)	Unnamed Cafe Runner	Malayalam		[42]
	Thiruchitrambalam	Shobana	Tamil		[43]
	Wonder Women	Nora Joseph	English		[44]
2023	Kolaambi	Arundhathi	Malayalam
2024	Kadhalikka Neramillai †	TBA	Tamil	Post-production	[45]
TBA	Dear Exes †	TBA		Filming	[46]
	Idly Kadai †	TBA		Filming	[47]
	Untitled VJS film †	TBA		Filming	[48]

1. Nithya Menen played a single character with two or more names.

Awards

Nithya Menen has won several awards for her acting. These include:

• Four Filmfare Awards: for Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde (Telugu), Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju (Telugu), Mersal (Tamil), and Thiruchitrambalam (Tamil).^[49]
• Two Nandi Awards: for Ala Modalaindi and Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju.^[50]
• National Film Award: for her performance in Thiruchitrambalam.^[51]

Singing career

In addition to acting, Nithya Menen is also a playback singer. She has sung songs in many of her movies, including "Edo Anukunte" in Ala Modalaindi and "O Priya Priya" in Ishq.^[52]

Personal life

Nithya Menen is not married. She keeps her personal life private and focuses on her work in movies.