Kanaka is a former Indian actress.

Personal life

Kanaka is the daughter of Tamil actress

Devika Devika Devadoss (born Prameela Devi) (25 April 1943 – 2 May 2002) was an Indian actress who worked in Tamil, Telugu with few Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi film industry. She was a popular lead actress in the 1960s. Devika is the grand daughter ...

. She is also the great-granddaughter of

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's first

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's producer

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Career

She started her career as a heroine in the Tamil movie '' Karagatakaran'', directed by

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, a blockbuster movie which ran more than a year. Kanaka acted in many Tamil movies, including ''

Periya Veetu Pannakkaran ''Periya Veetu Pannakkaran'' is a 1990 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by N. K. Viswanathan and produced by Kalyani Murugan. The film stars Karthik, Kanaka, M. N. Nambiar and S. S. Chandran. The film's score was composed by Ilaiyaraaj ...

'' (1990), ''

Athisaya Piravi ''Athisaya Piravi'' () is a 1990 Indian Tamil-language fantasy comedy film directed by S. P. Muthuraman and written by Panchu Arunachalam. It is a remake of the Telugu film '' Yamudiki Mogudu'' (1988). The film stars Rajinikanth, Kanaka, and ...

'' (1990), ''

Samundi ''Samundi'' is a 1992 Tamil-language action film directed by Manoj Kumar. The film stars R. Sarathkumar and Kanaka. The film, produced by Mogannadarajan and V. Shanmugam, had musical score by Deva and was released on 18 September 1992. Plot ...

'' (1992), ''

Periya Kudumbam ''Periya Kudumbam'' () is a 1995 Indian Tamil-language drama film, directed by K. S. Ravikumar. The film stars Prabhu, Kanaka and Vineetha, with Manorama, Vijayakumar, Lakshmi, Chandrasekhar, Chithra, Goundamani and Senthil in supporting ...

'' (1995) and ''

Viralukketha Veekkam ''Viralukketha Veekkam'' () is a 1999 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film directed by V. Sekhar. The film stars Livingston, Vadivelu, Vivek, Khushbu, Kovai Sarala and Kanaka. The film, produced by S. S. Durairaju and K. Parthiban, had m ...

'' (1999). She also starred in a few

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and

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movies with major stars like

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Mammootty Muhammad Kutty Panaparambil Ismail (; born 7 September 1951), known mononymously by the hypocorism Mammootty (), is an Indian actor and film producer who works predominantly in Malayalam films. He has also appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, H ...

and

Mohanlal Mohanlal Viswanathan (born 21 May 1960), known mononymously as Mohanlal, is an Indian actor, film producer, playback singer, film distributor, and director who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema besides also having sporadically app ...

. She has acted in more than 50 films in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu in a span of 10 years. Her last Tamil film was ''

Sillunu Oru Kaadhal ''Sillunu Oru Kaadhal'' () is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by N. Krishna from a story by A. C. Durai. It stars Suriya, Jyothika and Bhumika, while Shriya Sharma, Sukanya, Vadivelu and Santhanam play supporting ...

'' (2006).

Filmography

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