INDIAN ACTRESS AMALA AKKINENI BORN 1968 BORN SEPTEMBER 12

 INDIAN ACTRESS AMALA AKKINENI

 BORN 1968 BORN SEPTEMBER 12

Amala Akkineni (née Mukherjee) is a former Indian film actress, Bharata Natyam dancer, and an animal welfare activist.[1][2] She is best known for her works in Tamil cinema, and Telugu cinema. 

She has also starred in few Malayalam, Kannada, and Bollywood films. She has won two Filmfare Awards South, and a CineMAA Award.[1] Amala is the co-founder of The Blue Cross of Hyderabad,[3] a non-government organisation (NGO) in Hyderabad, India, which works towards the welfare of animals and preservation of animal rights in India.[4][5]











Early life

Amala was born in Kolkata to a Bengali speaking father who was a Naval officer and an Irish mother.[6][7] She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Bharata Natyam from Kalakshetra college of fine arts, founded by Rukmini Devi Arundale

. She gave many live performances worldwide.[8][9] She was subsequently persuaded to join films by T. Rajender who visited her home with his sister and convinced her mother to let her act in the film which would be a classical film featuring her Bharat Natyam dancing.[10]








Personal life
Amala is married to Telugu Film actor Akkineni Nagarjuna in 1992 and the couple has a son, actor Akkineni Akhil. They currently live in Hyderabad.[9] She is the step-mother of actor Naga Chaitanya.

[11] In an interview with The Hindu, she cited her greatest fear as not "walking the talk" when it comes to social issues. She also highlighted that her greatest regret is not speaking Telugu well.[12]

Career
Amala made her debut in a Tamil film titled Mythili Ennai Kaathali directed by T. Rajendar, which was a huge box office hit. Winning overnight fame, she charmed cinegoers in a flurry of fifty films, including a number of Tamil box office hits. She acted with her future husband Akkineni Nagarjuna in hits like Nirnayam and Siva. She received Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Malayalam for her ww film Ulladakkam.

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She quit acting in 1992 following her marriage to Nagarjuna, but made a comeback in 2012 with the Telugu film Life is Beautiful.[13] She received a CineMAA Award for Best Outstanding Actress and Telugu category Film Fare Award for best supporting actress in 2013 for her portrayal.

Awards

Filmfare Awards South
1991 : Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Ulladakkam
2012 : Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu – Life Is Beautiful
CineMAA Awards
2012 : Best Outstanding Actress – Life Is Beautiful

Filmography

Telugu

Year	Film	Co-stars	Role
1987	Pushpaka Vimana	Kamal Hassan	Magician's daughter
	Kirayi Dada	Akkineni Nagarjuna	Lata
1988	Chinababu	Akkineni Nagarjuna	Madhu
	Raktha Tilakam	Venkatesh	Radha
1989	Shiva	Akkineni Nagarjuna	Asha
1990	Prema Yuddham	Akkineni Nagarjuna
	Raja Vikramarka	Chiranjeevi	Rekha
	Aggiramudu	Venkatesh	Manasa
1991	Nirnayam	Akkineni Nagarjuna	Geetha
1993	Aagraham	Rajasekhar
2012	Life Is Beautiful		Amma(Mother)

Tamil

Year	Film	Co-stars	Role
1986	Mythili Ennai Kaathali	T. Rajendar	Mythili
	Mella Thirandhathu Kadhavu	Mohan, Radha	Noorjahan
	Panneer Nathigal	Sivakumar
	Kanne Kaniyamuthe	Rahman
	Oru Iniya Udhayam	Vijayakanth
	Unnai Ondru Ketpen	Mohan
1987	Velaikaran	Rajinikanth	Kaushalya
	Poopoova Poothirukku	Prabhu
	Kootu Puzhukkal	Raghuvaran
	Vedham Pudhithu	Sathyaraj	Vaidehi
	Kavithai Paada Neramillai	Raghuvaran
	Idhu Oru Thodar Kathai	Mohan
	Pesum Padam	Kamal Hassan	Magician's daughter
1988	Agni Natchathiram	Prabhu, Karthik	Anjali
	Kodi Parakuthu	Rajinikanth
	Sathya	Kamal Hassan
	Jeeva	Sathyaraj
	Illam	Sivakumar
	Kaliyugam	Prabhu
1989	Mappillai	Rajinikanth	Geetha
	Varam	Prabhu
	Nalaya Manithan	Prabhu
	Uthama Purushan	Prabhu	Rekha
	Vetri Vizha	Kamal Hassan, Prabhu	Lalitha
1990	Pudhu Padagan	Vijaykanth	Devi
	Mounam Sammadham	Mammooty	Hema
1991	Vaasalile Oru Vennila	Nizhalgal Ravi	Kamal
	Karpoora Mullai	Raja	Maya Vinodini

Hindi

Year	Film	Co-star	Role
1988	Dayavan	Aditya Pancholi	Sarita
	Kab Tak Chup Rahungi	Aditya Pancholi
1989	Dost	Mithun Chakraborty
	Jurrat	Kumar Gaurav
1990	Shiva	Nagarjuna	Asha
2013	Listen... Amaya		Amaya's aunt
2015	Hamari Adhuri Kahani		Rohini

Kannada

Year	Film	Co-star	Role
1988	Pushpaka Vimana	Kamal Hassan
1990	Bannada Gejje	V. Ravichandran
1992	Agni Panjara	Kumar Bangarappa
1991	Ksheera Saagara	Kumar Bangarappa
	Belliyappa Bangarappa	Kumar Bangarappa

Malayalam

Year	Film	Co-star	Role
1991	Ente Sooryaputhrikku	Suresh Gopi	Maya Vinodini
1991	Ulladakkam	Mohanlal	Reshma