Easwari Rao

Easwari Rao (born 13 June 1973) is an Indian actress who has worked in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada cinema. She played the lead roles from 1990 to 1999. She started to play supporting and character roles from 2000 onwards.

She married director L. Raja in 2005 The couple have 2 children: 1 son and 1 daughter. Currently, she resides with her family at Chennai.

Eswari Rao's debut movie was Intinta Deepavali (1990) in Telugu; she came to prominence in Telugu with the film Rambantu alongside Rajendra Prasad. She debuted in Tamil in Kavithai Paadum Alaigal (1990) credited as Janani. Though the songs were popular, the movie was a failure in box office. She got her first major break in Raman Abdullah (1997), directed by Balu Mahendra, where she was credited as Easwari Rao. She notably opted out of a project titled Koottaali as she felt the role was too glamorous. She went on to appear in Manoj Kumar's film Guru Paarvai (1998). Eeshwari also had a role in Bharathiraja's Siragugal Murivadhilai, although the film was shelved after pre-production. In the Tamil film Appu (2000) she portrayed Prasanth's sister. She received praise for her performance as Selvi in Kaala (2018).

Films

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Movie	Role	Language	Notes
1990	Intinta Deepavali		Telugu
	Kavithai Paadum Alaigal		Tamil	Credited as Janani
1991	Jagannatakam	Neela	Telugu
	Kalikalam		Telugu
1992	Ootty Pattanam	Seena/Ranjini Thamburatti	Malayalam
	Naalaiya Theerpu	Raani	Tamil
1993	Vedan	Priya	Tamil
1994	Meghamale		Kannada	Credited as Vijayashree
1996	Rambantu	Kaveri	Telugu	Credited as Vyjayanti
1997	Raman Abdullah	Gowri	Tamil
1998	Guru Paarvai	Pooja/Alamelu	Tamil
	Simmarasi	Rasathi	Tamil
1999	Poomaname Vaa		Tamil
	Sundari Neeyum Sundaran Naanum	Krishnaveni	Tamil
2000	Appu	Saradha	Tamil
2001	Kutty	Chenthamarai	Tamil
	Thavasi	Gowri	Tamil
2002	Kannathil Muthamittal	Shyma	Tamil
	Virumbugiren		Tamil	Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Character Artiste (Female)
2003	Naaga	Sada's sister	Telugu
2004	Sullan	Karpagam	Tamil
	Aaptudu		Telugu	Guest appearance
2005	Bhadra	Surendra'swife	Telugu
2006	Saravana	Soundarapandiyan's wife	Tamil
2014	Legend	Jaidev's aunt	Telugu
2015	Andhra Pori		Telugu
2016	Premam	Sithara's mother	Telugu
	Brahmotsavam	Bhulakshmi	Telugu
	A Aa	Kameswari	Telugu
	Ism	Satyavathi / Ammaji	Telugu
2017	Nenu Local	Babu's mother	Telugu
	Mister	Chey's step mother	Telugu
	Jawaan	Jai's mother	Telugu
2018	Kaala	Selvi	Tamil	Behindwoods Gold Medal Best Supporting Actress Ananda Vikatan Cinema Award for Best Supporting Actress SIIMA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Aval Viruthugal for Best Artist in Tamil Film industry - 2018
	Ee Maaya Peremito		Telugu
	Aravindha Sametha	Reddamma	Telugu
2019	F2 – Fun and Frustration	Laxmi	Telugu
	Unda	Lalitha	Malayalam	Cameo Appearance
	Azhiyatha Kolangal 2	News Reader	Tamil	Also Producer
2020	Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo	Nurse Sulochana	Telugu
	Johaar	Ganga	Telugu	Aha Film
	Lock Up	Illavarasi	Tamil	ZEE5 Film
	Varmaa	Bhavani	Tamil	OTT Release on Simply South
2021	Love Story	Revanth's mother	Telugu
2022	Theal	Durai'sadopted mother and Raja's mother	Tamil
	K.G.F: Chapter 2	Fathima	Kannada
	Virata Parvam	Sujatha	Telugu
	Thank You	Sailaja	Telugu
	Khaki	TBA	Tamil	Filming
2023	Salaar	Salaar's mother	Telugu	Filming

Television

• Kokila Enge Pogiraal (Sun TV)
• Peyarai Solla vaa (Sun TV/Vikatan Televistas)
• Udhayam (Sun TV) Radaan Mediaworks
• Kasthuri (Sun TV)
• Aval Appadithan (Jaya TV)
• Ninne Pelladutha (Gemini TV)
• Vennalamma (Gemini TV)
• Agni Saatchi (Vijay TV)
• Vazhnthu Kaatukiren (AVM Productions) (Sun TV)
• Maya(Jaya TV)
• Aaha (Vijay TV)
• Kantham Kathalu (Dooradarshan - Telugu)