Lakshmi Devy is an American actress and screenwriter who has acted in films in the English, Tamil, and Malayalam languages. She won the Remi Award for best director for her film ''When the Music Changes'' in 2021. She started her screenwriting career with the Tamil film ''Masala Padam'', in which she also played the lead role. After starting her career as a theatre artist and model, Devy played her first leading role in ''
Nil Gavani Sellathey'' (2010), directed by Anand Chakravarthy.
In addition to acting in films, she is the principal of a film production company, FiDi Talkies, in the United States.
Personal life
Devy was born into a family of doctors and engineers in New York where she spent most of her early life. Her mother is a
nephrologist
Nephrology is a specialty for both adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kid ...
and father is a
travelogue writer and
published author, and they run a hospital in
Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...
, India.
She did her primary education in New York and completed medical school in India, during which she pursued modelling, dance, and theatre. Devy is a medical doctor and started her film career while she was in medical college.
Career
Lakshmi started her acting career with the Anand Chakravarthy directorial ''
Nil Gavani Sellathey'' in which she played the main lead role. She later starred in numerous South Indian movies including ''
Cinema Company
''Cinema Company'' is a 2012 Malayalam-language romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Mamas K. Chandran, Mamas, and starring mainly newcomers. Basil, Sanjeev M Nair, Shruthi Hariharan and Badri play the roles of four close friends w ...
'' and critically acclaimed Tamil-language action comedy film ''
Masala Padam
''Masala Padam'' () is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film directed, filmed and co-produced by cinematographer Laxman Kumar along with Vijayaraghavendra. The film stars Shiva, Bobby Simha and Gaurav alongside Lakshmi Devy, who bes ...
'', which was also her original screenplay debut.
In 2017, Devy founded FiDi Talkies, a New York-based production company and made her directorial debut with a short film 'Daro Mat' in which she played the protagonist. The film was screened in multiple international film festivals and won several awards. She started her career as a film director in 2020 with the film ''When the Music Changes'' which is produced by FiDi Talkies and actor-director
John Turturro
John Michael Turturro ( ; born February 28, 1957) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his varied roles in independent films, and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers and Spike Lee. He has received a Primetime Emmy Award a ...
.
Filmography
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Living people
Indian actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Actresses from New York City
American film actresses
American actresses of Indian descent
Actresses in Tamil cinema
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
American expatriate actresses in India
21st-century American actresses