Sai Pallavi

Biography

Sai Pallavi Senthamarai Kannan (born 9 May 1992), is an Indian actress, dancer, and physician who predominantly works in Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam cinema. She appeared as a contestant on the dance reality shows *Ungalil Yaar Adutha Prabhu Deva* (2008) and *Dhee Ultimate Dance Show* (2009) before beginning her acting career. Pallavi made her acting debut as the college lecturer Malar in Alphonse Puthren's romantic drama *Premam* (2015), for which she received the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South. She followed this with Sameer Thahir's *Kali* (2016) and made her Telugu debut in Sekhar Kammula's romance *Fidaa* (2017). Her subsequent work includes *Middle Class Abbayi* (2017), *Maari 2* (2018), *Athiran* (2019), the anthology *Paava Kadhaigal* (2020), *Love Story* (2021), *Shyam Singha Roy* (2021), the period drama *Virata Parvam* (2022), and the social courtroom drama *Gargi* (2022). Pallavi portrayed Indu Rebecca Varghese in Rajkumar Periasamy's biographical war drama *Amaran* (2024), opposite Sivakarthikeyan, and starred alongside Naga Chaitanya in Chandoo Mondeti's romantic drama *Thandel* (2025). She made her Hindi-film debut with the romantic drama *Ek Din* (2026), alongside Junaid Khan, and played Sita in Nitesh Tiwari's mythological film *Ramayana: Part 1* (2026), opposite Ranbir Kapoor. She received the Kalaimamani honour from the Government of Tamil Nadu in 2021 and has won seven Filmfare Awards South, a Tamil Nadu State Film Award, and three SIIMA Awards.

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