Anu Haasan (born Anuradha Chandrahaasan on 16 July 1970) is an Indian actress and TV anchor. She made her film debut in the critically acclaimed '' Indira'' (1995) and has since appeared in many Tamil films, playing minor roles. She hosted the celebrity talk show '' Koffee with Anu'' on the Tamil channel Vijay for three seasons.

Early life

Anu Hasan was born on 15 July 1970 to

Chandrahasan S. Chandrahasan (6 March 1936 — 18 March 2017) was an Indian film producer and actor from Tamil Nadu, India. Early life Born to advocate Srinivasan and Rajalakshmi, Chandrahasan was the second of four children. His elder brother Charuhasan ...

, the brother of actors

Kamal Haasan Kamal Haasan (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, playback singer, television presenter and politician who works mainly in Tamil cinema and has also appeared in some Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Bengali f ...

and

Charuhasan S. Charuhasan (born 5 January 1931) is an Indian actor, director and retired lawyer who has acted in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi films. He won the National Film Award for Best ActorSubha J Rao,Entertainment for a cause, The Hi ...

. Anu is the cousin of film actresses

Suhasini Maniratnam Suhasini Maniratnam (born 15 August 1961) known mononymously as Suhasini, is an Indian actress, director, producer and writer in the Tamil film industry. She has worked as an actress in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She made her ...

, Shruti Haasan and

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. Anu did her schooling at St.Joseph's Anglo Indian Girls Higher Secondary School, Trichy and RSK Higher Secondary School and earned a

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and

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from

Birla Institute of Technology and Science Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) is a Deemed university in Pilani, Jhunjhunu, India. It focuses primarily on higher education and research in engineering and sciences. After expansion to a campus in Dubai, it has b ...

(BITS),

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, Rajasthan.

Personal life

Anu Hasan married Shri Vikas in 1995 and the couple divorced in 1999. After living alone for around 11 years, she married her long-time British friend Graham Jay in 2010 in a private wedding ceremony. Anu and Graham met on a music website, and their friendship eventually ended up in love, and then marriage. They divorced in 2014

Career

By 2000, she ventured into television, acting first in the series ''Anbulla Snehgidhiye'', which was adapted from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's award-winning novel '' Sister of My Heart''. She then starred in a number of TV series like ''Avan Aval Avargal'', ''Ammaavukku Rendula Raagu'' and ''Vivahita'' (Malayalam), following which she turned anchor for the celebrity talk show '' Koffee with Anu'' (named after herself), aired on

STAR Vijay Star Vijay is an Indian Tamil language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly Star India), a subsidiary of Asianet Star Communications. The channel's headquarters is in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Star Vijay chan ...

. The show, which she hosted for over four years, soon became very popular and made her ultimately a household name in

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil languag ...

. In 2014 she joined the ''Ask How India'' social movement and made a series of videos pertaining to social issues. In addition, Anu has worked as a dubbing artiste, lending her voice for many non-Tamil-speaking actresses, including

Raveena Tandon Raveena Tandon (born 26 October 1972) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. The daughter of director Ravi Tandon, she made her acting debut in the 1991 action film '' Patthar Ke Phool'', which won her the Filmfare Award for New Face ...

Preity Zinta Preity G Zinta (pronounced ; born 31 January 1975) is an Indian actress and entrepreneur primarily known for her work in Hindi films. After graduating with degrees in English honours and criminal psychology, Zinta made her acting debut in '' ...

and Geetu Mohandas.
She writes a monthly column for Just for Women (India) magazine.

Author

Books

*''Sunny Side Up'' (2015) – Self Help English Book.

Filmography

Films

Television

Dubbing artist

(Uyire) *

(Aalavandhan) *

Geethu Mohandas Gayatri Das (born 8 June 1981), known professionally as Geetu Mohandas, is an Indian actress and director known for her works in Malayalam cinema and Bollywood. In 2013, she directed the socio political film '' Liar's Dice'' which has received ...

(Nala Damayanthi)*

References

External links

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About Anu Hasan
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