Samyuktha | |
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Born | Samyuktha Menon 11 September 1995 |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2016–Present |
Samyuktha (also known by her former name Samyuktha Menon) is an Indian actress who primarily appears in Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil films. She made her acting debut with the Malayalam film Popcorn (2016).[1][2]
Samyuktha went onto work in successful Malayalam films including Theevandi (2018), Oru Yamandan Premakadha and Kalki both (2019), Vellam (2021) and Kaduva (2022). Following her Telugu debut with Bheemla Nayak (2022), she received praise for playing a sub-inspector in Bimbisara (2022), a biology teacher in Vaathi (2023) and a revengeful woman in Virupaksha (2023).
Samyuktha was born as Samyuktha Menon on 11 September 1995,[3][4] at Palakkad, Kerala.[5] Samyuktha did her schooling from Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Thathamangalam and she is a graduate in economics.[6]
Samyuktha made her film debut in 2016 with the Malayalam film Popcorn, where she played Anjana, the love interest of Shine Tom Chacko in the movie.[7]
She appeared in the Tamil-language action thriller Kalari as Thenmozhi.[8][9] She was cast to play the title role in Lilli, a 2018 Indian Malayalam-language revenge thriller flick, scripted and directed by debutant Prasobh Vijayan.[7][10] July Kaatril announced in late 2017 is a romantic comedy Tamil film.[11] The project was released in 2018. Her next release was Theevandi a Malayalam-language political satire film directed by debutante Fellini T. P. and written by Vini Vishwa Lal.[12][13]
Samyuktha's first release for 2019 was Oru Yamandan Premakadha[14] directed by B. C. Noufal and written by Bibin George and Vishnu Unnikrishnan. She made a cameo appearance in Uyare [15] as Tessa sharing screen space again with Tovino Thomas. Samyuktha played the role of Shivajith Padmanabhan's side-kick in the 2019 action film Kalki which had Tovino Thomas in the lead directed by Praveen Prabharam.[16][17][18] She was later cast in Bheemla Nayak which was released in February 2022. In August 2022, she made her Kannada debut in the film Gaalipata 2.[19]
In 2023, Samyuktha dropped her surname Menon from her name and said, "When I want to see equality, humanity and love all around, keeping a surname makes it very contradictory to what I want."[20][21]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Language | Notes |
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2016 | Popcorn | Anjana | Malayalam | Malayalam Debut |
2018 | Theevandi | Devi | ||
Lilli | Lilli | |||
Kalari | Thenmozhi | Tamil | Tamil Debut | |
2019 | July Kaatril | Revathy | ||
Oru Yamandan Premakadha | Jesna Johny | Malayalam | ||
Uyare | Tessa | Cameo appearance | ||
Kalki | Dr. Sangeetha | |||
Edakkad Battalion 06 | Naina Fathima | [22][23] | ||
Under World | Aishwarya | |||
2021 | Vellam | Sunitha Murali | ||
Aanum Pennum | Kochuparu / Savithri | Segment : Savithri | ||
Wolf | Asha | |||
Erida | Erida | Malayalam Tamil |
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2022 | Bheemla Nayak | Kamali | Telugu | Telugu Debut[24][25] |
Kaduva | Elsa Kurian Kaduvakunnel | Malayalam | ||
Bimbisara | Vyjayanthi | Telugu | ||
Gaalipata 2 | Anupama | Kannada | Kannada Debut[26][27] | |
2023 | Vaathi | Meenakshi | Tamil | Bilingual film[28] |
Sir | Telugu | |||
Boomerang | Honey Paul / Anjali | Malayalam | [29] | |
Virupaksha | Nandini | Telugu | [30] | |
Devil: The British Secret Agent | Nyshada | [31] |