Urvashi

Around 350 films over more than four decades: that is the size of Urvashi's body of work, mostly in Malayalam and Tamil, with Kannada, Telugu and Hindi titles too. Born Kavitha Manoranjini on 25 January 1969, the actress, dubbing artist, television host, screenwriter and producer comes from an acting family; her elder sisters Kalaranjini and Kalpana were also actresses. She was ten when she first faced the camera, as Jayabharathi's daughter in the Malayalam film Kathirmandapam (1979). K. Bhagyaraj's Tamil film Mundhanai Mudichu was among her early leads. Through the 1980s and 1990s she was one of the leading heroines of Malayalam cinema. She won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress six times, three of them in a row from 1989 to 1991. Twice she has won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, for Achuvinte Amma (2005), her comeback after a six-year gap, and for Ullozhukku (2024). She also holds three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. As a writer she is credited with Utsavamelam and Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu, which she also produced. This year she plays the title role in Aasha (2026), a thriller with Joju George now streaming on ZEE5, and she has a role in Sundar C's upcoming Tamil film Mookuthi Amman 2.