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Sweety Shetty better known by her stage name Anushka Shetty, is an Indian Actress and Model who works Predominantly in Telugu and Tamil films.
Born in Mangalore, Karnataka, Anushka is an ethnic Tuluva hailing from the landed Bellipady Uramalu Guthu family.Her parents are Prafulla and A.N. Vittal Shetty. She has two brothers Gunaranjan Shetty and Sai Ramesh Shetty who is a cosmetic surgeon. Anushka did her schooling in Bangalore and her Bachelor of Computer Applications at the Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. She was also a yoga instructor, trained under Bharat Thakur.
She made her acting debut through the 2005 Telugu film ‘Super’. She went on to star in a number of Telugu films such as ‘Vikramarkudu’ (2006), ‘Arundhati’ (2009), ‘Vedam’ (2010), ‘Rudramadevi’ (2015) and ‘Baahubali: The Beginning’ (2015). After starring in a series of high-budget productions, she established herself as one of the leading actresses in Telugu cinema. She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of the title character in ‘Arundhati’ (2009), as Saroja in ‘Vedam’ (2010), and as Queen Rudramadevi which fetched her three Filmfare, one Nandi and three CineMAA Awards. In the 2010s, Anushka also achieved success in Tamil cinema with the action films ‘Singam’ (2010), its sequel ‘Singam II’ (2013) and ‘Yennai Arindhaal’ (2015). All three of them were big commercial successes, while her performances in ‘Vaanam’ (2011), ‘Deiva Thirumagal’ (2011) and ‘Inji Iduppazhagi’ (2015) won her critical praise.
She was also voted as “Hyderabad’s Most Desirable Woman of 2015”.
Anushka is currently working on Bhagmati.
