Samantha Akkineni

Quick Facts

Full Name	Samantha Akkineni
Occupation	Actor
Date Of Birth	Apr 28, 1987(1987-04-28)
Age	37
Birthplace	Chennai
Country	India
Horoscope	Aries

Samantha Akkineni Biography

Samantha Akkineni is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on April 28, 1987 in Chennai, India. Born on the 28th of April, 1987 to an Telugu dad and Malayali mother hailing from Alappuzha, Kerala, Samantha was raised at Pallavaram within Chennai, Tamil Nadu as the youngest child in the family of Prabhu and Ninette and her two older brothers, Jonathan and David and was able to speak fluently of her Tamil language. Despite her diverse ethnic background she has identified herself as an Tamilian. As part of her schooling, Samantha was schooled at Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, and later completed the diploma in business from Stella Maris College, Chennai. Near the end of her degree, she began modeling as well as working with Naidu Hall. Through Naidu Hall she was first discovered by the filmmaker Ravi Varman.

Samantha’s next film was the romantic drama Baana Kaathadi (2010) which starred Adharvaa. It came out as the third Tamil project that was signed by Samantha, however it was released before the previous two projects she was contracted to do because of delays in the completion of their films. Samantha played a student at the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in the very first time this role was played in Tamil film. Her next film included Ravi Varman’s Moscowin Kavery (2010), initially the film she started working on. The film’s production began in August 2007 with Samantha being briefly acknowledged as screen name Yasodha and joining the cast after the beginning of the year. In an interview that was held during 2008, the director Ravi Varman said that he’d decided that Samantha was to be the lead actress in the film in just three minutes of watching one of her commercial projects. He further described Samantha as an actress with “intelligence” and “potential” while drawing comparisons to the famous performer, Revathi. However, due in part to Ravi Varman’s prior commitments to be a cinematographer for other films the film sat in the development process, before finally releasing in the month of August. The film received a poor review from critics, however Samantha’s performance was acknowledged as one of the few points of the film. The film premiered in August of 2008 when she was she was still working on her three remaining assignments, Samantha also signed up to play the lead of a contemporary female on the Narain starrer Pookada Ravi but it was later put on hold. Samantha was then able to appear in Vamsi Paidipally’s Telugu film Brindaavanam (2010) in which she played a supportive part alongside NTR Jr and Kajal Aggarwal. Indu, her character Indu was well-received despite having less screen time than those she previously played in her films. The film was her second film that she had a great success in Telugu.

While pursuing a degree in commerce, Akkineni worked part-time on modelling assignments. She soon received offers for film roles, and made her acting debut in Gautham Menon’s critically acclaimed Telugu romance film, Ye Maaya Chesave (2010), which fetched her the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Actress and a Nandi Award. Samantha then became the second actress ever to win both the Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress and the Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actress in the same year, for her performances in the films Neethaane En Ponvasantham (2012) and Eega (2012). Since then, she has primarily opted to appear in the leading female role in hero-centric Telugu and Tamil films, earning box office success with films including Dookudu (2011), the family dramas Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2012) and Attarintiki Daredi (2013) and AR Murugadoss’s Tamil action film, Kaththi (2014). Her work in the film A Aa (2016) also won positive reviews and won Samantha her fourth Filmfare Award, while her next films Theri (2016), 24 (2016), Mersal (2017), and Rangasthalam (2018) also were commercially successful.

Samantha has actively been involved in philanthropic activities and donates her earnings from endorsements, product launches and inauguration events to her charitable trust, Pratyusha Support, which was registered in 2012. She chose to begin the non-governmental organisation after being bed-ridden for 15 days during her documented illness in 2012, and wanted to give back to society. Samantha subsequently started the Pratyusha Support foundation to provide medical support for women and children with the help of three doctor friends, and provided the entire financial support for the programme. She held a fund raiser in August 2013 to raise awareness of her foundation, auctioning several of her personal items and memorabilia from films. A further initiative in 2014 saw the launch of a programme to fulfil the wishes of children with life-threatening diseases, with Samantha financing trips for children to fly on an aeroplane and travel to the Taj Mahal, while also organising opportunities for children to meet their favourite film actors. Samantha has also been involved in spreading awareness of haemophilia, regularly taking part in events creating awareness of the disease.

Success of Ye Maaya Chesave (2010) and the subsequent success of Ye Maaya Chesave led Rediff.com to declare the actress “the most sought after actress in the Telugu film industry” in the year 2014. Her initial selection of films showed the actress as one who chooses to be featured in powerful female roles as well as Times of India noting that “scripts are written around the characters she portrays” and she was a prominent figure on the “wishlist of every top actor, director and producer”. Her appearances in Telugu film projects was also initially viewed as to be a “lucky charm” by producers however Samantha admitted that “destiny” played a role in her professional life, and she acknowledged that she was one of “many women out there who are more beautiful and more talented” than she was. She wanted her name to become “synonymous with hard work”. Samantha added that she would sacrifice her salary to feature in films with a good reputation and revealed that she had worked for Gautham Menon’s films at lower costs and declined more lucrative opportunities to appear in S. S. Rajamouli’s Eega (2012).

Samantha Akkineni Net Worth

Samantha Akkineni is one of the richest Actor from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Samantha Akkineni 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Samantha Akkineni (nee Ruth Prabhu born on the 28th of April 1987) is an Indian actress who has made a successful career with the Telugu and Tamil film industry. She has won numerous awards, including the four Filmfare Awards. She is now an acclaimed performer for the South Indian film industry.

After starring in powerful characters in her first handful of films, Samantha chose to feature more hero-oriented films during the mid-2010s. When asked why she chose not to pursue more role that emphasized heroines, Samantha lamented the lack of opportunities her South Indian film industry presents for women who have already established characters and said that it is “simply male- dominated”. Samantha added that the industry made it impossible for her get to “get roles similar to her characters in Ye Maaya Chesave or Eega every time” and she would only accept stories that was able to provide “the potential to engage viewers”. In announcing her role as a glamorous actress in her return to Tamil movie, Anjaan (2014), Samantha declared that she had took the “thoughtful call” as “it was important to do these kind of films to get exposure into the market,” and also that “mass films” were “where the main audience” was in South Indian cinema. She also said that she didn’t wish to get “typecast as the girl-next-door” and was determined to prove critics wrong who claimed that she would not do the glamorous roles. In a 2015 interview, Samantha suggested that she was not happy with her work from the previous year , and she was planning to never again make films in which she was “required to do five songs and the scenes leading up to the songs” and promised herself she would “if she was not going to get good roles” she would end her acting career.

Samantha began her professional film career with Gautham Menon’s Telugu film, Ye Maaya Chesave (2010). The film, simultaneously made in Tamil as Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010), created much anticipation prior to release, due primarily to the first-time-collaboration between Gautham Menon and composer A. R. Rahman. The actress successfully auditioned and was signed up for the project in mid August 2009 and worked on the film in India and the United States, while the film was released on 26 February 2010. Post-release, she revealed that Menon played a “crucial part in moulding her as an actress”, teaching her how to remain natural and comfortable in front of the screen, even if she had no dialogues in a scene. In the film, Samantha played the lead character Jessie, a Malayali Saint Thomas Christian girl living in Hyderabad, with whom the male protagonist, played by Naga Chaitanya, falls in love. Upon release of the film, Samantha received very positive reviews for her portrayal, with the film itself garnering much critical acclaim. Critics at Sify praised Samantha as a “scene-stealer” and her beauty as “alluring”, adding, “she was the girl to watch out for.” Jeevi from Idlebrain.com, wrote that “Samantha’s debut is one of the best heroine debuts in Telugu cinema” and noted that the “minute expressions she gave spoke volumes about her”, whilst labelling the film as a “classic”. Ye Maaya Chesave fetched her the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Actress and a Nandi Award. Samantha appeared in a cameo role in the Tamil version of the film, portraying an assistant director who becomes an actress. Both the Telugu and the Tamil versions of the films proved to be grand successes, propelling Samantha to sign on for bigger projects. She followed up her collaborations with Gautham Menon and A. R. Rahman by appearing in the music video for the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 promotional song, Semmozhiyaana Tamizh Mozhiyaam, which Menon directed and Rahman composed.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Samantha Akkineni Dating?

According to our records, Samantha Akkineni married to Naga Chaitanya. As of December 1, 2023, Samantha Akkineni’s is not dating anyone.

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Samantha has also been involved in a few controversies, primarily as a result of voicing her opinions through Twitter. Following the release of a promotional poster for the Telugu film, 1: Nenokkadine (2014) in December 2013, Samantha criticised the depiction of actress Kriti Sanon crawling behind actor Mahesh Babu on the beach, who looks back at Kriti disapprovingly. Samantha tweeted that the poster was “deeply regressive” and stated that it was offensive by the makers to depict women like animals. The tweet received an adversely storming response from Mahesh Babu’s fans, who launched a scathing attack on her online and targeted abuse at the actress. Her opinions were later backed by actor Siddharth and directors Sekhar Kammula and Nandini Reddy, who also resultantly faced similar abuse, before Mahesh Babu apologised. Through her tweets, she was also criticised for revealing actor Akhil’s presence in Manam (2014) and retweeting a pirated image from her film 10 Endrathukulla (2015). Her family home in Chennai was raided in late September 2015 by income tax officials, in a planned operation targeting film actors, though the actress and her father denied making any wrongful payments. In 2017, she was appointed as the ambassador for Telangana Handlooms by the government of Telangana and currently works to promote handloom textiles in the state of Telangana.

Facts & Trivia

Samantha Ranked on the list of most popular Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Samantha Akkineni celebrates birthday on April 28 of every year.

The year of 2014 saw Samantha appear in six films and make a return to the Tamil film industry. Her first release saw Samantha portray a dual role in the family drama film Manam (2014), where she featured alongside several members of the Akkineni film family. Featuring as a young mother and a college student in two different time eras, Samantha received positive reviews for her work, with the critic from Sify saying “she excels” and The Hindu’ s reviewer noting that she “emotes well and easily shifts between the roles”. Her performance fetched Samantha a nomination for Best Actress from the Filmfare Awards, while she won Critics’ Best Actress at the SIIMA Awards. Samantha subsequently featured alongside Naga Chaitanya again in the long-delayed Autonagar Surya (2014), before playing further minuscule roles in the Telugu action masala films Alludu Seenu (2014) and Rabhasa (2014). Critics lamented that she “signed to be a glam doll” for the ventures and has “previously shown us she is capable of doing much more, but of late, seems to be stuck with doing similar roles that require her to be an attractive prop”. Samantha later revealed that she solely worked on Alludu Seenu as a favour to producer Bellamkonda Suresh, who had helped her delay the making of Jabardasth during her health problems.

What is the salary of Samantha?

NameSamantha Akkineni
Net Worth 2022| $12 Million
Net Worth In Indian Rupees| 89 Crore
Monthly Income| 70 Lakh
Yearly Income| 8 Crore +

Is Samantha a diabetic patient?

Samantha Ruth Prabhu – The Family Man 2 star, Samantha had revealed that had been diagnosed with diabetes in 2013. However, she’s overhauled her lifestyle to become one of the fittest actresses in India. Nick Jonas – Nick Jonas was only 13 when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

Is Samantha from a rich family?

Samantha came from a middle class family background and grew step by step in the last 10-12 years. Initially her remuneration was very meagre. She might be having several financial commitments from her family side to fulfil. So, from whatever she earned she invested only on flats and commercial space.

What is Samantha mother tongue?

Samantha was born on 28 April 1987 to a Telugu father, Joseph Prabhu and a Malayali mother, Ninette Prabhu from Alappuzha, Kerala. She was brought up in Pallavaram in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, as the youngest child of the family, with two elder brothers Jonathan and David, whilst becoming fluent in the Tamil language.

Who is Tollywood No 1 heroine?

In the Most Popular Telugu Stars Female category in Tollywood, Samantha Ruth Prabhu retained the number one spot.