Andreanne Nouyrigat

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Andreanne Nouyrigat
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Nationality French
Occupation(s)Actress, model
Years active2015–present

Andreanne Nouyrigat is a French actress, who lives and works primarily in India. She has appeared in supporting and leading roles in Tamil cinema. [1] [2] [3] She was a contestant on Cooku with Comali Season 4, a Tamil-language cooking show.[ citation needed ]

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Career

Andreane Nouyrigat was born in France, but settled and spent her childhood in Pondicherry, India from the age of six. For her higher studies, she returned to France and trained to become a veterinarian nurse, but later returned to India to attempt to enter the film industry. [4] In 2000, Andreanne was an extra in the telefilm Passeur d'enfants [5] set in Pondicherry and then later appeared in the French stageplays, La Jeune fille, le diable et le moulin (2001) produced by Olivier Py and Sketches (2004) by Jean-Philippe Ribes. She then played an extra in the "Athiradee" song in Shankar's Sivaji (2007) starring Rajinikanth and Shriya Saran.[ citation needed ] Post her studies, Andreanne began modelling for Indian companies such as Shelton Shirts, DVY photoshoot, Kumaran Silks Online, Vijaya Ganapathy Stores and Freshdesk amongst other opportunities. She also walked down the ramp for the designer, Chaitanya Rao, in 2014.[ citation needed ]

Andreanne then moved on to appear in Tamil films, often dubbing her own lines as she is familiar with the Tamil language. In 2013, she first shot for the low-budget films Kanden Kadhal Konden (2016) and Saalaiyoram (2016), but her first release was C. V. Kumar's Enakkul Oruvan (2015), where she featured as a friend of the character portrayed by Siddharth. She later notably played a ghost in the horror film Zero (2016), the comedy lead opposite Soori in the Sivakarthikeyan-starrer Rajini Murugan (2016) and a Russian woman in Rum (2017).[ citation needed ] Andreanne then portrayed her first lead role in the comedy film, Melnaattu Marumagan (2018) alongside Rajkamal. [6] In the film, she played a foreigner from France and dubbed her own lines in Tamil. [7] [8]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotes
2007 Sivaji DancerUncredited
2015 Enakkul Oruvan Marti
2016 Rajini Murugan Andrea
Zero Lilith
Kanden Kadhal KondenAshwini's friend
SaalaiyoramNGO worker
Veera Sivaji Foreign lady
2017 Rum Russian lady
2018 Melnaattu Marumagan Andreanne


Television

YearShowRoleChannelNotes
2023 Cook with Comali Season 4 Contestant Star Vijay 4th Runner-up

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