Amala Akkineni (Actress)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Amala Akkineni

• Amala Akkineni is an Indian actress who works in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi films.

• She was born to a Bengali father and an Irish mother.

• She is a trained classical dancer and had given many worldwide live performances before starting her acting career. 

• She was first noticed and convinced by an actor and director T. Rajender for doing the role of ‘Bharat Natyam dancer’ in his movie ‘Mythili Ennai Kaathali’ in 1986.

• She has worked in more than 55 films in 6 different languages.

• Before marriage, she did movies- ‘Siva'(1989) and ‘Nirnayam'(1991) along with her husband Nagarjuna.

• After the marriage, she took a break from the film industry and came back in 2012 with the Telugu film ‘Life is Beautiful’. 

• She is the co-founder of an NGO ‘The Blue Cross of Hyderabad’ in Hyderabad, India, which works for the welfare of animals and preservation of animal rights in India. 

• In 2014, she also worked in the Tamil TV serial ‘Uyirmai’ in which she played the role of ‘Dr. Kavitha Sandeep’.

• In 2015, she became the director at Annapurna International School for Film and Media, Hyderabad.

• She is the stepmother-in-law of popular actress Samantha Akkineni. 

• She is a dog lover.