Kausalya Biography and Photo Gallery

Kausalya (born Kavitha Shivashankar on 30 December 1979), also known as Nandini, is an Indian film actress and model, who has starred mainly in Tamil and Malayalam films. She was pursuing a modelling career, before she debuted in the 1996 Malayalam film April 16 by Balachandra Menon.The following year, she appeared in her first Tamil film Kaalamellam Kadhal Vaazhga and went on to star in several successful films, including Nerukku Ner, Priyamudan, Pooveli and Vanathai Pola

Kausalya is a Malayalam and Tamil language actress who has appeared in various Indian regional films. After starting her career as a lead heroine, she has since gone on to portray supporting roles. She is known as Nandhini in Malayalam Movies.

She got her break in 1995 with the Malayalam film Surya Kalyanam starring Suresh Gopi playing the role of Kavitha. The film got her breaks in Tamil films which she sealed in 1997 with Nerukku Nare with Vijay (Popular with the song "Akhila Akhila"). She followed her success with films like Priyamudan, Pooveli, Vanathai Pola and became a number one box office heroine. She has acted in over 30 films as heroine in Tamil and Malayalam including Karumadi Kuttan with Kalabhavan Mani and Ponmudan with Murali. She has received a filmfare award for best actress (Tamil) for the movie Pooveli.

She mostly acted in saree-clad and in conservative roles. As a result in the 2000s -the era of Simrans and the Glam Dolls - she appeared sporadically in supporting roles such as in Tirumalai and Santosh Subramaniam. She made her teleserial debut in Manaivi which aired 292 episodes on Sun Tv.