Priyamani Profile

Priya Vasudev Mani Iyer is her birth name.Priyamani was the most notorious student during her school days. She is best known for earning a National Film Award for Best Actress for her role as Muththazhagu in the
2006 Tamil film Paruthi Veeran.She started her career with the film Kangalal Kaithu Sei, which was a flop  at the box-office.Priyamani is an Indian film actress and model who has appeared in several Tamil, Telugu, Kannada  and Malayalam language films.                              Priyamani is the cousin of Bollywood actress Vidya Balan. Music, dance, chocolates, ice creams, puppies, kittens are her favourites. she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress Malayalam for Thirakkatha.She is one of the few actresses who star in both critically acclaimed and commercial movies.Priyamani was born in a Palakkad Iyer family in Palakkad and grew up in Bangalore. Priyamani is  qualified in B.A Psychology. The tamil hot actress had done modeling before coming to films.  She is one of the 4 contenders for Manorama News' News Maker of 2008. She won the National award for her performance in Paruthiveeran.She is currently doing her final year of a B.A. in Psychology.One film is being directed by Mahadev, who is making his debut as a director and another film is being directed by N. Shanker which is a film produced by Actress Priyamani.Priyamani modelled for print advertisements.