Digangana Suryavanshi

Digangana Suryavanshi is an Indian television and film actress, singer and author. Suryavanshi has played the character of Veera Kaur Sampooran Singh in the popular Star Plus TV series Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera. She participated in the reality show Bigg Boss 9 in 2015.

Suryavanshi is the only child of Neeraj Suryavanshi and Sarita Suryavanshi. Suryavanshi frequently mentions her Nani (maternal grandmother)

Suryavanshi completed her schooling at St. Xavier's Higher School, Mumbai. She completed her 12th board at Mithibai College, where she sat the exams during the shooting of Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera,She is currently pursuing the final year of a BA degree.

Suryavanshi is an English speaker who also speaks fluent Hindi and Marathi.

Suryavanshi started her career at the age of 7 as a child artist, debuting with the TV series Kya Haadsa Kya Haqeeqat in 2002. Suryavanshi also played supporting roles in shows like Shakuntala (2009), Krisshna Arjun and Ruk Jaana Nahin (2011–12). Suryavanshi landed her big break with Star Plus soap opera Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera (2012–15) in the lead role, where she played the title role. Her performance in the series earned her an Indian Telly Award nomination in 2014. She was one of contestants in the reality show Bigg Boss 9 on Colors TV and was evicted on December 7, 2015. Suryavanshi participated in the Indian sports reality television show Box Cricket League Season I, played for Mumbai Warriors and Season II, played for Mumbai Tigers.

Suryavanshi debuted in Bollywood with two films FryDay alongside Govinda and Jalebi under the banner Vishesh Films by Mukesh Bhatt and Mahesh Bhatt. Coincidently, Suryavanshi had both the films release date as 12 October 2018. Suryavanshi acted in the lead role with Govinda in the movie Rangeela Raja released on 18 January 2019.

Suryavanshi played the lead actress in Telugu film Hippi, under the banner V. Creations, as the female lead, directed by Krishnan K.T. Nagarajan.. The critics have appreciated Suryavanshi's role in the movie, Hemanth Kumar wrote Digangana Suryavanshi, the lead actress, is good in her role and she might be the only one who took her role far too seriously in the film. Right from her introduction scene to the climax, she’s consistently good in terms of her body language and her attitude that the role required.

Suryavanshi wrote her first book (book of lyrics) at young age of 15 called Waves the endless emotions. Suryavanshi has written a novel, Nixie the Mermaid and the Power of Love.

• WAVES - The Endless Emotions − Published By - Vakils, Feffer and Simons (2012) ISBN 8184620586
• Nixie the Mermaid and The Power of Love − Published By - Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt. Ltd - First edition (2013) & Notion Press - Second Edition(2016) ISBN 9789352066148

Suryavanshi got her first music album released at the age of 10, called "Devi Kheer Khalo" it's in local MP language. Suryavanshi's second music album was released at the age of 11, called "Shardamai Ki Madhuliya" it's also a devotional album.

Suryavanshi dedicated a song at the age of 14, to her maternal grandma, "I'm missing you", which was written, composed, sung and acted by her.

Suryavanshi became the youngest celebrity contestant to have entered the popular reality show Bigg Boss 9 as she was only 17 years old when she entered the house and turned 18 in the house.

• She won the 2016 Lions Gold Award for the favourite versatile actress.