Samantha Ruth Prabhu
(born 28 April 1987) is an Indian film actress and model, who mainly works in
the Telugu and Tamil film industries. Samantha was raised in Chennai and
pursued a career in modelling during her late teens. Despite signing up to Ravi
Varman's Moscowin Kavery in 2007, her first release was the critically
acclaimed 2010 Telugu romance film, Ye Maaya Chesave directed by Gautham
Menon, which fetched her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South. She
went on to appear in several commercially successful Telugu films.
In 2013, Samantha became the second actress after Revathi
to win both the Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress and the Filmfare Award
for Best Telugu Actress in the same year, for the films Neethaane En
Ponvasantham and Eega, respectively.