Profile, wiki and biography of Telegu actress Samantha

In this article you will find a complete profile of Samantha who is one of the top stars in the Telugu Film industry. Besides making her way through the Telugu movies, Samantha is gaining popularity in Tamil movies as well.

Personal details of Samantha

Name: Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Date of Birth: 28 / 4 / 1987
Other name: Yashoda
Pet names: Sam, Jessie
Education: Graduated in Commerce from Stella Maris College in Chennai

Family and personal life of Samantha

Samantha's father is a Telugu man while her mother hails from Kerala and is a Malayali. From her childhood Samantha is brought up in Tamilnadu and feels comfortable speaking Tamil. Besides graduating in commerce from Stella Maris college in Chennai, she pursued her career in modelling and entered the field in her late teens. She is 5'6" tall and presently her place of residence is Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh.

Samantha Career in tollywood film industry

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Though Samantha has started her cine career by signing for few Tamil movies in mid 2007 like Ravi Varman's Moscowin Kaveri yet her debut release was Gautham Menon's Telugu movie Ye Maaya Chesave which was released in February 2010. In this movie she acted opposite Naga Chaitanya and got a positive response of her performance in the movie. Some of her good numbers in the Tollywood which added up to her film career are:

Brindavan opposite Junior NTR and co-starred by Kajal Aggarwal which was released in August 2010 and earned her a good name.

Dookudu opposite Prince Mahesh Babu gave her a good break through in her film career.

And she did awesome job in the latest hit of technical wonder of the last year Eega opposite Naani and Sudeep which made her easy to establish in the Tollywood industry. Yeto Vellipoyindi Manasu is yet another movie to her credit opposite Naani.

Other Telugu movies in which Samantha acted are Erra Gulabeelu, Jabardasth opposite Siddharth, Kandireega-2 opposite Jr NTR, Kurralloye Kurrallu and her latest hit of the year 2013 is Seetamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu though her role was not very important in the movie, yet this movie is counted as one of her biggest hits.