Lizzie Antony

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Lizzie Antony
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  • Film actress
Years active2011–present
Known for Taramani
Thanga Meenkal
Children1

Lizzie Antony is an Indian actress working in the Tamil film industry, mostly as a supporting actress. She is best known for her roles in Thanga Meenkal (2013) and Taramani (2017). [1] Apart from films, Antony has performed in advertisements, short films and web series. [2]

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Lizzie Antony became the first South Indian actress to win ‘The Phenomenal She’ award in 2022, organized by The Indian National Bar Association (INBA) for 100 woman achievers every year. [3]

Career

Thanga Meenkal , directed by acclaimed film maker Ram, helped her to get noticed as her character Stella miss, an English teacher in a private school, who is a stickler for discipline was appreciated by the critics as well as the audience. [4] [5] [6]

Antony is a post graduate of commerce from Madras University and a trained classical dancer. Her natural performance in the sleeper hit Taramani was widely appreciated [4] [7] and later she played the pair of Mammootty in the commercial and critically successful film Peranbu and her mother act in Ispade Rajavum Idhaya Raniyum , [8] [9] has made her a recognizable actress of Tamil films. [10] She played Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in the OTT release Methagu [11] and won critical acclaim in Blue Star . [12]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011 Thoonga Nagaram Thahsildar's wife
2012 Naanga Reporter
2013 Thanga Meenkal Stella Miss
Karuppampatti Meenakshi
2014 Cuckoo Glory
2017 Paambhu Sattai
Taramani ACP's wife
2018 Pariyerum Perumal College Professor
2019 Peranbu Stella
Ispade Rajavum Idhaya Raniyum Charulatha
K-13 Thangam
Bodhai Yeri Budhi Maari Janani's mother
Igloo Maadhangi
Mr. Local Keerthana's lawyer
Naadodigal 2 Soumya's mother
2021 Methagu Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Netrikann Sophia's mother
Pen Paadhi Aadai PaadhiAnnie
Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum Sports Coach HOD
Writer Amutha
Theerpugal Virkapadum Doctor
2022 Saani Kaayidham Advocate Raani
Natchathiram Nagargiradhu
Gatta Kusthi Veera's aunt
Connect Lizzy
Raangi Priya
2023 Bommai Nayagi
D3
2024 Blue Star Suseela
Joshua: Imai Pol Kaakha Shanthini
Maharaja Victim

Web series

YearTitleRolePlatformNotes
2019 Fingertip Maadhangi ZEE5
Police Diary 2.0
2020 PubGoa
2022 Fingertip (Season 2)
Victim Komatha SonyLIV
2023 Oru Kodai Murder Mystery ZEE5

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