1. Maitreyi Ramakrishnan played voice roles in the Pixar film Turning Red, and the animated series My Little Pony: Make Your Mark and My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale.
22 Facts About Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan was born on 28 December 2001 in Mississauga, Ontario, where she was raised.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan was born to Sri Lankan Tamil parents who immigrated to Canada as refugees due to the country's civil war.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan went to Lisgar Middle School for elementary and graduated from Meadowvale Secondary School.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan deferred her acceptance to the theatre program at York University in Toronto, which she initially planned to attend the fall after she graduated high school, so she could shoot the series in Los Angeles.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan made her professional acting debut as Devi Vishwakumar, the protagonist, in the Netflix teen comedy-drama series Never Have I Ever.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan created her audition tape at a local library, using her mother's camera, eventually being asked to send four more videos, before having a screen test in Los Angeles and being offered the role.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan was 17 at the time of her casting and had not acted professionally.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan revealed in an interview that she grew up watching Indian actor Vijay in the Indian Tamil-language film Pokkiri, which influenced her to consider an acting career.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan's casting received significant media attention, especially in Canada, due to the nature of the open casting call and for her Tamil Canadian identity.
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The series and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan's performance received generally positive reviews, with Variety calling it a "breakout performance".
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In February 2021, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan was named as Breakout Actor in Time's Time100 Next list of the next hundred influential people.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan voiced Priya Mangal, an Indian-Canadian mellow, deadpan girl who is one of the protagonist's friends, in the Pixar animated fantasy comedy film Turning Red.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan voiced Zipp Storm throughout the content slate for the fifth incarnation of the My Little Pony franchise.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan voiced the character for the animated Netflix series, My Little Pony: Make Your Mark, which premiered in September and was preceded by a special of the same name in May The series ran for six "chapters" until November 2023.
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In October 2023, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan had a guest voice role on the adult animated sitcom Big Mouth as Marissa, the new love interest and neighbour of the young fictional version of series co-creator Andrew Goldberg.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan made her live-action film debut with a supporting role in the comedy drama Slanted, from Tideline, a Fox and MarVista Entertainment label.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan will appear in another supporting part in Disney's Freakier Friday, led by Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, the sequel to Freaky Friday.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has committed to co-lead the Netflix romantic comedy film The Netherfield Girls, a contemporary adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice.
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In March 2022, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan fronted the spring campaign, "Members Always: Future Together", for clothing retailer American Eagle, alongside Madelyn Cline, Joshua Bassett, Michael Evans Behling, Coco Gauff, and Mxmtoon.
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In October 2020, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan became a global ambassador for humanitarian organization Plan International Canada, to promote girls and women's rights and gender equality.
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In 2022, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan stated that she does not care about labels or the gender of the person that she dates or is in a relationship with, describing herself as "very much so a personality person": "I don't care if you're a boy, girl, or in between".