1987–1996 (as a leading actress) 2000 (television) 2003–present (as a character artist)
Spouse
Ponvannan (m. 1995)
Children
2
Parent
A. B. Raj (Father)
Saranya Ponvannan (born Sheela Christina; 26 April 1970[1]) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam and a few Kannada language films. She also acted in one Hindi movie Chup: Revenge of the Artist in 2022. Saranya made her acting debut in a lead role in Mani Ratnam's Nayakan (1987) and went on to play lead roles from 1987 to 1996. Following an eight-year sabbatical, she returned to films in 2003 as a character actor roles. In her career spanning around over 25 years she had won a number of accolades including one National Film Award, two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and five Filmfare Award South.
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SaranyaPonvannan (born Sheela Christina; 26 April 1970) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam and a few Kannada...
acclaim for his performance in an ensemble cast. Ponvannan married National Award-winning actress Saranya, daughter of Malayalam director A. B. Raj, in 1995...
stars Vijay Sethupathi (in his lead debut), Vasundhara Kashyap and SaranyaPonvannan in her 100th film, which won her Best Actress at National film Awards...
and Nandita Das plays the older version of the latter's character. SaranyaPonvannan, Samuthirakani, Varsha Ashwathi, and Anupama Kumar play supporting...
Natraj, Harish, Oviya, Monica, Prakash, Veerasamar, Ilavarasu, and SaranyaPonvannan. The film is a very sad story revolving around the relationship between...
film stars Sathish and Regina Cassandra alongside Nassar, Anandaraj, SaranyaPonvannan, VTV Ganesh, and Redin Kingsley. The film was announced in September...
Velaiilla Pattadhari and has Dhanush, Amala Paul, Vivek, Hrishikesh, SaranyaPonvannan, and Samuthirakani reprising their roles, while Kajol plays an antagonistic...
stars Nayanthara alongside a supporting cast including Yogi Babu, SaranyaPonvannan, VJ Jacqueline, R. S. Shivaji, Charles Vinoth, Hareesh Peradi and...
written and directed by Cheran. The film stars Rajkiran, Cheran and SaranyaPonvannan, in lead roles while, Senthil Kumar, Padmapriya and Meenal portraying...
Dhanush, who also enacts in the lead role alongside Amala Paul, Vivek, SaranyaPonvannan, Samuthirakani and Surbhi. It is the predecessor to Velaiilla Pattadhari...
Bharathiraja, starring Prabhu, Sivaji Ganesan, Sivakumar, Radhika and SaranyaPonvannan. It was released on 14 April 1995. The film was remade in Telugu as...
acting debut), Santhanam and Hansika Motwani in lead roles, while SaranyaPonvannan and Azhagam Perumal play supporting roles. The film's music was composed...
International. The film stars Tovino Thomas, Nimisha Sajayan, Anu Sithara and SaranyaPonvannan in lead roles. It released on 9 November 2018 coinciding with Deepavali...
written and directed by V. Sekhar. The film stars Nizhalgal Ravi, SaranyaPonvannan and Aishwarya, with Janagaraj, Sumithra, Goundamani, Senthil, Vasu...
by newcomer A. Sarkunam. It stars Vimal and debutante Oviya, with SaranyaPonvannan, Ilavarasu, Ganja Karuppu, and Soori in supporting roles. The music...
earlier directed Thagapansamy. The film stars Karunas, Karthika, and SaranyaPonvannan, while Nassar, M. S. Baskar, Livingston, and Chitti Babu play supporting...
Sreenivasan, Jayaram, Santhi Krishna, in the lead roles, along with Shari, SaranyaPonvannan, KPAC Lalitha, Innocent, Sankaradi, Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Jagadeesh...
stars newcomer Mahesh Raja and Udhayathara, with Kishore, Manikandan, SaranyaPonvannan, Ponnambalam, Devi Kiruba, Aswathy, Kadhal Sukumar, and Kottachi playing...
in his directoral debut starring Sasikumar and Lakshmi Menon while SaranyaPonvannan and Bala Saravanan play supporting roles. The film opened to mixed...
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