Sridevi

Acting

Born 1963-08-13 Died 2018-02-24 Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India 233 credits Filmfare Award for Best Actress 2 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards 1 Padma Shri in arts 1 Stardust Award for Best Drama Actress 1

Awards

Won 2 Filmfare Award for Best Actress Awards

Filmfare Award for Best Actress 2 won

1992 Best Actress Won Lamhe
1990 Best Actress Won ChaalBaaz

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards 1 won

— Tamil Nadu State Film Awards Won

Padma Shri in arts 1 won

2013 Padma Shri in arts Won

Stardust Award for Best Drama Actress 1 won

2013 Best Drama Actress Won English Vinglish

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Sridevi Kapoor (August 13, 1963 - February 24, 2018) was an Indian film actress who has worked in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She is known as one of the first female "superstars" of Hindi cinema. Sridevi started her career as a child artist in M.A. Thirumugham’s devotional Thunaivan at the age of four, and continued to act as a child artist in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She made her Bollywood debut as a child artist in the hit Julie (1975) and played her first adult role at age 13 with the Tamil film Moondru Mudichu (1976). Subsequently, Sridevi established herself as one of the leading actresses of Tamil and Telugu cinema, with roles such as 16 Vayathinile (1977), Sigappu Rojakkal (1978), Varumayin Niram Sivappu (1980), Meendum Kokila (1981), Premabhishekam (1981), Moondram Pirai (1982), Aakhari Poratam (1988), Jagadeka Veerudu Atiloka Sundari (1990), and Kshana Kshanam (1991). In Bollywood, she made her debut as a lead actress in Solva Sawan (1978) and gained wide public attention with the movie Himmatwala (1983). In 2012, Sridevi returned to films after a 15-year-long hiatus with English Vinglish and became the only actress in the history of Hindi and Tamil cinema to make a highly successful comeback. On February 24, 2018, Sridevi was found dead in her guest room at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The official coroner's report showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub, with unconsciousness cited as a contributing factor.