Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian film actress and model, who mainly works for the South Indian film industry. She born on 28 April 1987.
Samantha was brought up in Chennai and pursued a career in modeling during her late teens. Despite signing up to Ravi Varman's Moscowin Kavery in 2007, her first release was the critically acclaimed 2010 Telugu romance film, Ye Maaya Chesave directed by Gautham Menon. She has then appeared in critically acclaimed and commercially successful Telugu films like Brindavanam, Dookudu, Eega, Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu and Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu establishing herself as a leading contemporary actress in Telugu cinema.
In 2013, Samantha became the second actress to win both the Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress and the Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actress in the same year, for the films Neethaane En Ponvasantham and Eega, respectively.
Samantha is currently working on several Telugu projects, including Trivikram Srinivas' Attharintiki Daaredhi starring Pawan Kalyan, Autonagar Surya opposite Naga Chaitanya under the direction of Deva Katta and Ramayya Vasthavayya directed by Harish Shankar, featuring NTR Jr. She has signed on Lingusamy's next with Suriya and V. V. Vinayak's next with Bellamkonda Suresh's son, Sai Srinivas. Besides, she was selected to portray the female lead in NTR Jr's next film Rabhasa as well, which is to be directed by Santosh Srinivas. Samantha for the first time playing the role of mother her new movie Manam.
In the beginning of 2013, Samantha appeared in Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu that featured Venkatesh and Mahesh Babu in the lead, marking her second film with Mahesh Babu. The film was critically and commercially successful and her performance was praised by the critics along with the other female lead, Anjali. Mahesh S Koneru of 123telugu.com commented on her performance stating "Samantha is beautiful and adorable in this movie. Her cute expressions and romantic scenes with Mahesh Babu make you want to root for her". IBN Live too commented positively on her performance stating "Good to see Samantha shed her glamorous side and welcome performance-oriented roles, which she only handles with deftness and ease". Later, in February, she played the lead role in Nandini Reddy's Jabardasth co-starring Siddharth. The movie, which was an unofficial remake of the 2010 Hindi film Band Baaja Baaraat was commercially successful at the Box Office. Oneindia Entertainment in their review commented "Samantha has good scope in the film and her bubbly characterisation is entertaining. The actress will surely impress you in both romantic and emotional sequences. Her belly dance in the song 'Meghamala' is very hot".
In an interview with The Times of India, Samantha revealed that she is deeply in love and quite happy in her relationship. She stated, "We are going very strong and I am very happy". But the actress refused to say the name of the person. Later there were rumors that her boyfriend is Siddharth, her Jabardasth movie co-star. The duo even sparked the rumors of marriage on their visit to Srikalahasti temple together, along with some of their family members.
Samantha has endorsed various brands like Chik Shampoo, Gokul Sandiva, Big C Mobiles, Saravana Stores, Odonil Room Freshening Gel and Dabur Vatika Hair Oil. Samantha is associated with a campaign supporting the children suffering from the disease Hemophilia, since October 2012. She has been attending various awareness camps by the NGO to show her support for the same, since then on. In one such event, Samantha stated, "I'm upset for two months and took break from work due to a small skin related issue. I can understand how children diagnosed with hemophilia, a cureless genetic disease feels".
