Sunaina

Sunaina Yella is an Indian actress and model who predominantly works in Tamil and Telugu films. She debuted in Telugu with Kumar Vs Kumari (2005) and in Tami debut with Kadhalil Vizhunthen (2008).^[1][2][3] She has since starred in the films Vamsam (2010), Neerparavai (2012), Trip and Raja Raja Chora (both 2021), and the television shows Nila Nila Odi Vaa (2018), Chadarangam (2020) and Inspector Rishi (2024).

Sunaina
Sunaina in 2013
Born	Sunaina Yella (1989-04-17) 17 April 1989 (age 35) Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Other names	Hemaakshi
Occupation(s)	Actress, model
Years active	2005–present

Early life and career

Sunaina was born in April 1989 in Nagpur, India into a Telugu family. She was raised in Nagpur and later moved to Hyderabad along with her parents.

She had her first screen appearance in Kumar Vs Kumari (2005), a Telugu film. Her next film 10th Class (2006) was her first breakthrough in Telugu cinema. She next made her Malayalam and Kannada cinema debut in Best Friends (2006) and Gange Baare Thunge Baare (2008) respectively.

Her rise to fame was by starring with Nakul in Kadhalil Vizhunthen (2008) which was her Tamil début film. Prior to that, she shot for a short scene in Sivaji (2007), which did not make the final cut. She later starred in Vamsam (2010) in which she appeared as a beautiful village girl and did very well, and continued with performance oriented films where she secured her first Filmfare nomination for Neerparavai (2012). Her performance was critically praised and she was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil.

After that she appeared in films like Samar (2013), Vanmam (2014) and also gave a guest appearance opposite Vijay in Theri (2016). She then appeared in Nambiyaar (2016), Kavalai Vendam (2016), Thondan (2017). In 2018, she acted in the drama film Kaali starring Vijay Antony and Anjali. Next, she appeared in Nila Nila Odi Vaa, Viu original romantic thriller series that released in September 2018.^[4] She has also done Sillu Karupatti (2019), and comedian Yogi Babu’s film titled Trip (2021).

Raja Raja Chora (2021) was considered to be her comeback in Telugu cinema after 10th Class (2006). She had also appeared in the Amazon Prime Video series Inspector Rishi, released in 2024.

Filmography

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Films

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2005	Kumar Vs Kumari	Sudha	Telugu
2006	Something Special	Mahi
	10th Class	Sandhya
	Best Friends	Kavya	Malayalam
2007	Pagale Vennela	Swapna	Telugu	credited as Mythili
	Missing	Kavya
2008	Gange Baare Thunge Baare	Ganga	Kannada
	Kadhalil Vizhunthen	Meera	Tamil
2009	Maasilamani	Divya Ramanathan
2010	Yaathumagi	Anna Lakshmi
	Vamsam	Malar Kodi
2012	Pandi Oliperukki Nilayam	Valar Mathi
	Thiruthani	Sugeesha
	Neerparavai	Esther		Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil
2013	Samar	Roopa
2014	Vanmam	Vadhana
2016	Theri	Bride		Cameo appearance
	Nambiar	Saroja Devi
	Kavalai Vendam	Deepa
2017	Thondan	Bagalamugi
	Pelliki Mundu Prema Katha	Anu	Telugu
2018	Kaali	Poo Mayilu (Parvathy)	Tamil
2019	Enai Noki Paayum Thota	Mythili
	Sillu Karupatti	Amudhini
2021	Trip	Lidi (Paapi)
	Raja Raja Chora	Vidya	Telugu
2022	Estate	Reba	Tamil
	Laththi	Kavitha
2023	Regina	Regina
2024	Rocket Driver	Kamala

Television

Year	Title	Role	Language	Network	Notes	Ref.
2018	Nila Nila Odi Vaa	Nila	Tamil	Viu		[4]
2019	High Priestess	Radhika	Telugu	ZEE5	Appears in the episode "Friends"	[5]
	Fingertip	Rekha	Tamil		Season 1; Appears under segment "Greed".	[6][7]
2020	Chadarangam	Kranthi	Telugu			[8]
2022	Meet Cute	Kiran		SonyLIV	Appears under segment "Ex-Girlfriend"	[9]
2024	Inspector Rishi	Kathryn "Kathy"	Tamil	Amazon Prime Video