Sunaina

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title: "Sunaina" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["living-people", "actresses-in-malayalam-cinema", "actresses-in-tamil-cinema", "indian-film-actresses", "actresses-from-nagpur", "actresses-in-kannada-cinema", "actresses-in-telugu-cinema", "21st-century-indian-actresses", "telugu-actresses", "1989-births"] description: "Indian actress" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunaina" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Indian actress ::

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Field	Value
name	Sunaina
image	Sunaina FF (cropped).jpg
caption	Sunaina in 2013
other_names	Hemaakshi
birth_name	Sunaina Yella
birth_date
birth_place	Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
occupation	Actress, model
yearsactive	1989–present
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| name = Sunaina | image = Sunaina FF (cropped).jpg | caption = Sunaina in 2013 | other_names = Hemaakshi | birth_name = Sunaina Yella | birth_date = | birth_place = Nagpur, Maharashtra, India | occupation = Actress, model | yearsactive = 1989–present Sunaina Yella (born 17 April 1989), known professionally as Sunaina, is an Indian actress and model who predominantly works in Tamil and Telugu films. She debuted in Telugu with Kumar Vs Kumari (2005) and in Tamil with Kadhalil Vizhunthen (2008). She has since starred in the films Vamsam (2010), Neerparavai (2012), Trip and Raja Raja Chora (both 2021), and the television shows Nila Nila Odi Vaa (2018), Chadarangam (2020) and Inspector Rishi (2024).

Early life and career

Sunaina was born in April 1989 in Nagpur, India into a Telugu family. She was raised in Nagpur and the family later later moved to Hyderabad.

She had her first screen appearance in Kumar Vs Kumari (2005), a Telugu film. Her next film 10th Class (2006) was her first breakthrough in Telugu cinema. She next made her Malayalam and Kannada cinema debut in Best Friends (2006) and Gange Baare Thunge Baare (2008) respectively.

She rose to fame starring with Nakul in Kadhalil Vizhunthen (2008) which was her Tamil début film. Prior to that, she shot for a short scene in Sivaji (2007), which did not make the final cut. She later starred in Vamsam (2010) in which she appeared as a beautiful village girl and did very well, and continued with performance oriented films where she secured her first Filmfare nomination for Neerparavai (2012). Her performance was critically praised and she was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil.

After that she appeared in films like Samar (2013), Vanmam (2014) and also gave a guest appearance opposite Vijay in Theri (2016). She then appeared in Nambiyaar (2016), Kavalai Vendam (2016), Thondan (2017). In 2018, she acted in the drama film Kaali starring Vijay Antony and Anjali. Next, she appeared in Nila Nila Odi Vaa, Viu original romantic thriller series that released in September 2018. She has also done Sillu Karupatti (2019), and comedian Yogi Babu’s film titled Trip (2021).

Raja Raja Chora (2021) was considered to be her comeback in Telugu cinema after 10th Class (2006). She had also appeared in the Amazon Prime Video series Inspector Rishi, released in 2024.

Filmography

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Films

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Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2005	Kumar Vs Kumari	Sudha	Telugu
2006	Something Special	Mahi
10th Class	Sandhya
Best Friends	Kavya	Malayalam
2007	Pagale Vennela	Swapna	Telugu	credited as Mythili
Missing	Kavya
2008	Gange Baare Thunge Baare	Ganga	Kannada
Kadhalil Vizhunthen	Meera	Tamil
2009	Maasilamani	Divya Ramanathan
2010	Yaathumagi	Anna Lakshmi
Vamsam	Malar Kodi
2012	Pandi Oliperukki Nilayam	Valar Mathi
Thiruthani	Sugeesha
Neerparavai	Esther	Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil
2013	Samar	Roopa
2014	Vanmam	Vadhana
2016	Theri	Bride	Cameo appearance
Nambiar	Saroja Devi
Kavalai Vendam	Deepa
2017	Thondan	Bagalamugi
Pelliki Mundu Prema Katha	Anu	Telugu
2018	Kaali	Poo Mayilu (Parvathy)	Tamil
2019	Enai Noki Paayum Thota	Mythili
Sillu Karupatti	Amudhini
2021	Trip	Lidi (Paapi)
Raja Raja Chora	Vidya	Telugu
2022	Estate	Reba	Tamil
Laththi	Kavitha Muruganantham
2023	Regina	Regina
2024	Rocket Driver	Kamala
2025	Kuberaa	Shilpa	Telugu
Deepa	Tamil
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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Language	Network	Notes	Ref.
2018	Nila Nila Odi Vaa	Nila	Tamil	Viu
2019	High Priestess	Radhika	Telugu	ZEE5	Appears in the episode "Friends"
Fingertip	Rekha	Tamil	Season 1; Appears under segment "Greed".
2020	Chadarangam	Kranthi	Telugu
2022	Meet Cute	Kiran	SonyLIV	Appears under segment "Ex-Girlfriend"
2024	Inspector Rishi	Kathryn "Kathy"	Tamil	Amazon Prime Video
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References

References

1. "Sunaina and Nakul join hands for third time". India Today.
2. (15 January 2017). "Sunaina changes her name to Anusha". The Times of India.
3. (1 May 2014). "Actress Sunaina undergoes a name change, to be called Anusha". Desimartini.
4. "Ashwin and Sunainaa's web series, Nila Nila Odi Vaa, to be about vampires". The New Indian Express.
5. (20 November 2018). "Sunainaa's next is a web series with Amala Akkineni".
6. "Akshara Haasan's 'Fingertip' to portray how social media affects lives".
7. (26 August 2019). "Fingertip web series Review: An eerie reminder of the destructive power of apps".
8. (25 February 2020). "'Chadarangam' review: Zee5 series is yet another misfire inspired by NTR's life".
9. Dundoo, Sangeetha Devi. (25 November 2022). "'Meet Cute' Telugu anthology review: A mixed bag, with two standout stories and other cheerful but generic ones". The Hindu.

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