Pooja Hegde
Pooja Hegde
13.10.1990 (34 years) (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
Pooja Hegde (pronounced [puːdʒa ɦɛɡdæ]; born 13 October 1990) is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Telugu films, in addition to Hindi and Tamil films. She began her career as a model and was crowned as the second runner-up at the 2010 I Am She–Miss Universe India pageant. She made her acting debut with the Tamil film Mugamoodi (2012) and had her first Telugu release in Oka Laila Kosam (2014). Hegde established herself as one of the leading actresses in Telugu cinema.Hegde won the SIIMA Award for Best Actress – Telugu for her performance in Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (2020) and was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu for Oka Laila Kosam and Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava (2018). Her other commercially successful films include Duvvada Jagannadham (2017), Maharshi (2019), Gaddalakonda Ganesh (2019), Housefull 4 (2019), and Most Eligible Bachelor (2021). In 2022, four of her films were poorly received namely Beast, Radhe Shyam, Cirkus and Acharya which impeded her career.