Gauthami Nair

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Gauthami Nair
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Gauthami in 2019
Born
Alappuzha, Kerala, India
Education Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram (MSc psychology)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • film director
Years active2012–present

Gauthami Nair is an Indian actress and director who is associated with Malayalam films. She made her silver screen debut in the 2012 film Second Show . [1] [2] [3]

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Early life

Gauthami Nair was born to Madhu Nair and Sobha in Alappuzha.[ citation needed ] She has an elder sister, Gayathri.[ citation needed ]

She left her studies mid-way to pursue a career in films, [4] but in 2012, she enrolled herself in a course in Psychology at the Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram. She went on to pursue masters at the same college and graduated with the second rank in the university exams. [5] [6]

Career

She started her acting career by starring in the Malayalam film Second Show . [7] Her second film was Diamond Necklace in Malayalam, in which she starred with Fahadh Faasil and Samvrutha Sunil as a nurse. [8] [9] Her role as a Tamil girl and the charisma with which she carried herself around even when everything around her was collapsing in the film was very much appreciated. [10] Her next Malayalam film Chapters , was also well received. [11]

Personal life

She announced that she will marry someone working in the industry in March 2017 through online news portals, [12] and married film-maker Srinath Rajendran on 2 April 2017. [13] In 2023 she announced that they went separate ways after 3 years of marriage. [14]

Filmography

Actor

YearTitleRoleRef.
2012 Second Show Geethanjali Janardhanan
Diamond Necklace Lakshmi [15]
Chapters Priya
2014 Koothara Roshni [16]
2016 Campus Diary Krishnapriya
2022 Meri Awaaz Suno R. J. Pauly [17]
2023 2018 Anupama [18]
2024 Kondal Ancy [19]

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