58 Facts About Tamannaah

Tamannaah was conferred with Kalaimamani in 2010, and an honorary doctorate in 2022 for her contributions to Indian cinema.

Tamannaah began her acting career with the Hindi film Chand Sa Roshan Chehra.

Tamannaah then debuted in Telugu cinema with Sri and Tamil cinema with Kedi.

Tamannaah has worked in few Hindi films, including Himmatwala, Entertainment, and Babli Bouncer.

Tamannaah was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a warrior in Baahubali: The Beginning at the 42nd Saturn Awards.

Tamannaah did her schooling in Maneckji Cooper Education Trust School, Mumbai.

Tamannaah later changed her screen name for numerological reasons, varying it slightly to Tamannaah.

Tamannaah has been working since the age of 13, when she was spotted at her school's annual day function and offered a lead role, which she took up, and then became a part of Mumbai's Prithvi Theatre for a year.

Tamannaah worked in Abhijeet Sawant's album song "Lafzo Mein" from the album Aapka Abhijeet, which was released in 2005.

In 2005, at the age of 15, Tamannaah played the female lead in Chand Sa Roshan Chehra, which was a commercial failure at the box office.

The film opened to negative reviews and flopped at the box office, but Tamannaah received praise for her performance.

Tamannaah got her breakthrough with Sekhar Kammula's Happy Days and Balaji Sakthivel's Kalloori, both of which featured Tamannaah as a college student.

Tamannaah won critical acclaim for her performances in both films.

Tamannaah was paired with Sushanth, the grandson of actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao, in his first role.

Tamannaah later appeared in Gandhi Krishna's Ananda Thandavam, which was based on the novel Pirivom Santhippom serialised by Sujatha.

Tamannaah was paired with Siddharth Venugopal in the film, marking the latter's debut.

Tamannaah later appeared in R Kannan's Kanden Kadhalai, the official remake of Jab We Met, co-starring Bharath.

Kanden Kadhalai opened to decent feedback from critics and Tamannaah's performance won praise from them.

Tamannaah's first release of 2010 was N Linguswamy's Paiyaa, co-starring Karthi, which was a Tamil road movie.

Tamannaah earned a nomination each at the 58th Filmfare Awards South and 5th Vijay Awards in the Best Tamil Actress category.

Tamannaah's character was received poorly by critics, with Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff.

Tamannaah earned a nomination each at the 59th Filmfare Awards South and 1st South Indian International Movie Awards in the Best Telugu Actress category.

Tamannaah won the Best Actor Female awards at CineMAA Awards 2012 and The Hyderabad Times Film Awards 2011.

Tamannaah's looks in the film became debatable considering her girl-next-door looks sported in her previous films.

Suresh Kavirayani of The Times of India felt that Tamannaah was "energetic, but there was unnecessary skin show even in scenes that didn't seem to require it".

Tamannaah earned a nomination at the CineMAA awards 2012 in the best actor female category.

Tamannaah played the role of a village girl in Hari's Venghai, co-starring Dhanush, whom she called a "subtle and underplayed" character.

Tamannaah starred in four Telugu films in 2012, the first one being Sampath Nandi's Racha, co-starring Ram Charan, in which she played the role of a rich girl living in a protected world whose character's layers are revealed as the film progresses.

Tamannaah earned a nomination each at 60th Filmfare Awards South and CineMAA Awards 2013 in the best actor female category.

Tamannaah's third release, Raghava Lawrence's Rebel, co-starring Prabhas, in which she played a hip hop dance teacher, opened to mixed reviews and was a commercial failure and escalation of budget was cited as one of the primary reasons.

Tamannaah earned a nomination at the 3rd South Indian International Movie Awards in the Best Actor Female category.

Tamannaah made her comeback to Tamil cinema in 2014 after a sabbatical of three years with Siva's Veeram, co-starring Ajith Kumar.

Tamannaah said in an interview that she was in talks for a lot of Tamil films and would be signing a few soon.

Tamannaah again collaborated with Sajid Khan for the film Humshakals as one of the female leads.

Tamannaah received a nomination at the 7th Golden Kela Awards in the worst actress category.

Tamannaah made a cameo appearance as herself in Jagadish's Nannbenda, starring Udhayanidhi Stalin and Nayantara.

Tamannaah played the role of Avanthika, a Warrior Princess of an unspecified era.

The film received positive reviews from critics and Tamannaah was praised for her performance.

Tamannaah expressed her happiness over the success of the film and said "Without Ravi Teja sir I can't imagine this film as only he could justify the character".

Tamannaah performed her second item number in Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao's Speedunnodu, starring Bellamkonda Sreenivas and Sonarika Bhadoria, which released in February 2016.

Tamannaah charged half of her remuneration to appear in that song, titled "Bachelor Babu", which was made on a budget of 2.25 crore.

Tamannaah's next release was Vamsi's Oopiri, which is a remake of The Intouchables, co-starring Karthi and Nagarjuna, being filmed in Telugu and Tamil simultaneously.

Tamannaah has been praised for her acting in the film and the film collected 100 crore at box office, in three languages.

Tamannaah was praised for her performance as Amuthavali, a south Indian Brahmin girl in the film.

However, Tamannaah's performance was highly praised by the critics and audiences in both the movies.

The film featured Prabhu Deva and Tamannaah reprising their roles from the first film, along with Nandita Swetha, and Dimple Hayati.

Tamannaah's last release in 2019 was a Tamil film, Action, directed by Sundar C in which she paired opposite Vishal for second time and it opened to mixed reviews but her role was highly praised by critics.

Tamannaah's first release in 2020 was a Telugu film Sarileru Neekevvaru along with Mahesh Babu in which she made a special appearance in the party song, "Daang Daang".

Tamannaah has completed two web series: November Story for Disney+ Hotstar and 11th Hour for Aha, in which 11th Hour was released on 8 April 2021 and November Story on 20 May 2021.

Tamannaah's upcoming films include the Hindi film Bole Chudiyan alongside Nawazuddin Siddiqui directed by Shamas Nawab Siddiqui and the long delayed That Is Mahalakshmi, a female-centric Telugu-language comedy-drama film produced by Manu Kumaran, a remake of the 2014 Hindi film Queen by Vikas Bahl.

Tamannaah has reunited with Venkatesh, Varun Tej and Mehreen Pirzada in the sequel to her 2019 film F2: Fun and Frustration titled F3, which released on 27 May 2022.

In December 2021, Tamannaah was named amongst the top 10 most popular Indian actors on Over-the-top media service.

In October 2022, Tamannaah was confirmed to be joining Malayalam actor Dileep in Arun Gopy's Bandra marking her debut in Malayalam cinema.

Tamannaah signed a Hindi web-series of Disney+ Hotstar produced by Preeti Simoes her sister Neeti.

Tamannaah has experience as a model appearing in various television commercials.

Tamannaah is endorsing popular brands like Fanta and Chandrika Ayurvedic soap.

On 31 March 2015, Tamannaah launched a retail jewelry business named Wite-n-Gold.

Tamannaah reportedly charged Rs 50 lakhs for a 10-minute performance during the opening of IPL 2018 where she danced to four songs from four different languages of Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi.