PRAVEENA ,VOICE ARTIST , ACTRESS BORN 1978 APRIL 11

PRAVEENA ,VOICE ARTIST ,

ACTRESS BORN 1978 APRIL 11

Praveena is an Indian film, soap actress and voice artist. She is known for her role as Goddess Shakti/Parvati in the Asianet TV Show Devi Mahatmya. She has starred in numerous Malayalam films and Television soap operas.[1] She started her acting career in 1992. Her debut film was Gowri. Her debut as a heroine was in Kaliyoonjal (1997). She received the Kerala State Film Awards for her performances in the films Agnisakshi (1998)[2] and Oru Pennum Randaanum (2008).[3] She received the Kerala state award for dubbing also for Elektra (2010) and Ivan Megharoopan (2012).

Career
Praveena is a Malayalam television serial and film actress. She appeared in films like Agnisakshi, English Medium, Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum & Swarnam. Her serials include Swapnam, Megham the recent Mounam, Malakhamar in Mazhavil Manorama & Mohakkadal in Surya Tv.

She made her acting debut as a child artiste in an adaptation of T. Padmanabhan’s award-winning novel Gouri, following which she appeared on Doordarshan for Sapthaswarangal, a music programme.

Praveena later debuted in Malayalam cinema through Anil Babu’s Kaliyoonjal in which she was paired opposite Dileep. In quite a few films (Oral Mathram The Truth and Ezhupunna Tharakan) in which she played the character of Mammootty’s sister.

The State award came her way for her work in Agnisakshi and Oru Pennum Randaanum.

Praveena has performed as a voice artist, for actresses like Jyothirmayi in Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum for Kavya Madhavan in Mizhi Randilum and Sadanandante Samayam and for Padmapriya in Amrutham.

She has acted in few telefilms and advertisements. She is a very good dancer and has been judge to popular reality shows like Mummy & Me on Kairali TV, Comedy Stars & Star Singer on Asianet.

She has attended many stage programmes, public functions, and talk shows.

Personal life

Praveena is born to Ramachandran Nair and Lalithabhai. Her father is a retired college professor. She has an elder brother. Pramod Nair who works as a software engineer in United States. She is married to Pramod who previously worked as a Banker at Dubai, following which she took a short hiatus from acting. The couple have a daughter.[4]

Awards
Kerala State Film Award
Awards
Kerala State Film Award

1998: Second Best Actress - Agnisakshi
2008: Second Best Actress - Oru Pennum Randaanum
2010: Best Dubbing Artist - Elektra
2011: Best Dubbing Artist - Ivan Megharoopan
Asianet Television Awards

2005 - Best daughter in law - Swapnam
2011- Most Popular Actress - Devimahathmyam
2018 - Best Character Actress - Kasthooriman
Kerala Film Critics Association Awards

Film Critic Award 1999 (Best Actress) - Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum ,Saphalyam ,Agnisakshi
Mathrubhumi awards

2005 - Mathrubhumi Best Actress Award (Television) - Swapnam
2000 - Mathrubhumi Best Actress Award -Agnisakshi
Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal

2018 -Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal for Best Mother -Priyamanaval
Other Awards

Television gallop poll Award for Best Actress- Swapnam
Amrita FEFKA Award for dubbing - 2010 - Elektra
Muhammed Rafi Award
Ugma Award
Thikkurissi Foundation Award - Best Actress - Mohakkadal serial
German Malayalee Association Award
American Malayalee Association Award
Gulf Malayalee Association Award
Mathrubhumi Media - Swapnam serial
Dubbing Award - Novel
The Film Critics' Awards - Best actress for Swaram serial
JC Daniel Foundation Award - Best actress
AK Award
Data Award
Jeevan TV Award
Kumukara Foundation Award
Soalar Mini screen Award
Kerala Youth Festival Awards in 1996–1999
Asianet Film Award for Best Supporting Actor - Female (Vasantiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njanum) in 1999

As a dubbing artist (partial)
Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli – Mowgli
Unda (2019) - Easwari Rao
Sakhavinte Priyasakhi (2018) - Neha Saxena
Njan Samvidhanam Cheyyum (2015) - Sreedhanya
Homely Meals (2014)
Ivan Megharoopan (2012) - Padmapriya
Elektra (2010) – Manisha Koirala
Makaramanju (2012) - Mallika Kapoor
Oru Small Family (2010) – Seetha
Madambi (2008) - Mallika Kapoor
Novel (2008) – Sada
Photographer (2006) – Saranya
Vaasthavam (2006) – Kavya Madhavan
Karutha Pakshikal (2006) - Meena
Amrutham (2006) - Padmapriya
Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum (2003) – Jyothirmayi
Sadanandante Samayam (2003) – Kavya Madhavan
Mizhi Randilum (2003) - Kavya Madhavan
Sthithi (2003) - Nandini Ghosal
Superman (1997) - Sreejaya Nair
Innalekalillaathe (1997)
Symphony (film) -Anu I.V
Kilukil Pambaram (1997) – Kaveri
Moharavam (Doordarshan) - Manju Warrier - {TV Serial}

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“Priyamanaval” is one among the popular serials with high TRP on Sun TV. “Praveena” plays the titular role. The actress, who is born and brought up in Kerala started her career in Malayalam film industry. She had been choosy with her roles, right from the beginning of her career.​  Praveena is a playback singer, good dancer and voice-over artist too. She had received the Kerala State Awards for her performance and voice over. After getting married, she had been away from the film industry, as she had been in Dubai. After returning to India, she was showered with a lot of films and she chose the best. Besides movies, she was offered numerous TV Serials. She played in a lot of Malayalam serials. She had played in Tamil serials including Namma Kudumbam, “Maharani,” Adhiparasakthi and now Priyamanaval. 

In Namma Kudumbam, she did a cameo role. She turned popular among the Tamil audiences through the Vijay TV Serial Maharani. Many people started treating as their mother, as her character was powerful and she just performed naturally. Now, she has been playing in Priyamanaval from 2015 and people see her as Uma and not Praveena. Let’s wish Praveena a Happy Birthday! Many More Happy Returns Of The Day Dear, Praveena! May your dreams come true and make you happy!
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