Personal
Padmapriya is a Tamil Brahmin, but was born in Delhi and brought up in Punjab. Her father was in the army and thus she has lived all over India. She is an established actress in the South Indian cinema. She loves Reading, Travelling, Classical Music, Cooking, Swimming and Dancing. Padmapriya is a pure vegetarian and loves good food.
Education
MBA finance graduate at Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Bangalore.
PG Diploma in Environmental Law from National Law School
XI and XII from Kendriya Vidyalaya Trimulgherry. Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
B.Sc Computer Science and Engineering, Loyola Academy, Alwal, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
Career
Corporate
She was working with GE Capital as a risk consultant in Bangalore and Gurgaon.After GE she was with Symphony in Bangalore.
Classical Dancer
She has grown up to be a vibrant dansuese under the auspices of the famous guru Natya Brahma V.S. Ramamurthy. She performed more than 200 public performances to her credit. Her Krishna Leela Ballet, where she performed the role of Lord Krishna for Hyderabad Doordarshan in 1990 is telecast even today on almost all Krishna Jayanti festivals and was specially chosen for the SAARC exchange program - she also featured in Nritya Rupam, an innovative choreography by Jayalakshmi Eshwar at Delhi, which was also specially telecast by Delhi Doordarshan. She has also won Miss. Andhra Pradesh in 2001[citation needed].
Movies
Her passion for acting and modeling has made her successful in her films. Her first film was in Telugu. She then started acting in malayalam movies, where she acted with all the superstars such as Mammootty, Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi and Jayaram. Her first film in Tamil being Thavamai Thavamirundhu paired with actor/director Cheran, which turned to be a huge hit. Then followed Pattiyal a film directed by Vishnuvardhan in which she paired with Arya.
She is also a trained make-up artist and hair stylist. It was very refreshing to see Padma come up and voluntarily hair dress her competitors Kavya Madhavan and Navya Nair during the Dubai Star show in 2007.
She has also ventured into Hindi cinema and is doing Striker where she is paired opposite Siddharth. The movie is directed by Chandan Arora.
Filmography
- Bhoomi Malayalam...Fousia
- Kutty Srank
- Pokkisham....Nadira
- My Mothers Laptop (2008)
- Striker (2008) (Hindi)....Madhu
- Pazhassi Raja (2008)...Nili
- Pachamarathanalil(2008)
- Mirugam
- TIME ...Susan Thomas
- Moonu Pengul (2007) ...Kunnipennu
- Paradesi (2007) ...Usha
- Satham Podathey (2007) ...Bhanu
- Veeralipattu (2007) ...Pooja
- Anchil Oraal Arjunan (2007) ...Pavitra
- Yes Your Honor (2006)...Maya
- Karutha Pakshikal (2006)... Poongudi
- Bhargava Charitram Moonam Kandam (2006)..Sophia
- Ashwaroodan (2006)...Sitalakshmi
- Pattiyal (2006) .... Saroja
- Vadakkum Nathan (2006)...Mira
- Rajamanikyam (2005) .... Malli
- Thavamai Thavamirundhu (2005) .... Vasanthi
- Amrutham (2004) .... Sainaba
- Kaazhcha (2004) .... Lakshmi
- Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi(2003)...Vasanthi