Samantha Ruth Prabhu (Samantha, Sam, Yashodha, Yasho) Wiki Biography

✅ Samantha was born and raised in Pallavaram, Chennai, as the youngest of three children, with two elder brothers, a Telugu father and a Malayali mother.

✅ Samantha has said her first paycheck was ₹500 for an eight-hour hostess job at a conference when she was in school.

✅ Her first film shoot, Moscowin Kavery, began in 2007 under the screen name Yasodha, but the film was delayed until 2010.

✅ She became the second actress, after Revathi, to win both the Filmfare Best Actress – Tamil and Best Actress – Telugu awards in the same year, for Neethaane En Ponvasantham and Eega in 2012.

✅ A skin and immunity illness in 2012 forced her out of two big-budget films, Mani Ratnam’s Kadal and Shankar’s I.

✅ She took a two-month break from acting.

✅ She founded the charitable trust Pratyusha Support in 2012, after being bed-ridden during that illness.

✅ She donates her endorsement and event earnings to it.

✅ In 2017, the Telangana government appointed her ambassador for Telangana Handlooms.

✅ She later launched Tweave, a handloom-promotion venture, in partnership with the state.

✅ She launched the women’s clothing brand Saaki World on 28 September 2020.

✅ She made her digital debut as the antagonist Raji in The Family Man Season 2 (2021), which won her the Filmfare OTT Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.

✅ Her “Oo Antava” number in Pushpa: The Rise (2021) was her first dance number in a film.

✅ Media outlets have described it as a turning point in her stardom.

✅ She announced on 29 October 2022 that she had been diagnosed with dermatomyositis, an autoimmune condition.

✅ In August 2023, she served as Chief Guest at the India Day Parade in Manhattan, New York City.

✅ It is described as the world’s largest Indian Independence Day parade.

✅ She launched her production company Tralala Moving Pictures in 2025 and made her producing debut with Subham, in which she also had a Cameo.

✅ She married filmmaker Raj Nidimoru on 1 December 2025 at the Linga Bhairavi Temple inside the Isha Yoga Centre, Coimbatore.

✅ Samantha has said Maa Inti Bangaaram was first meant to be pitched to Sai Pallavi, and the makers then reworked the story for her.

✅ She shared this in an Instagram Q&A in June 2026.

✅ Maa Inti Bangaaram as the highest-grossing female-led Telugu film, ahead of Rudhramadevi.

✅ On 24 June 2026, Samantha confirmed at the film’s success meet in Hyderabad that she is expecting her first child with Raj Nidimoru and will take maternity leave.

✅ She has spoken publicly about spending three days in silence with no phone as a “silence sadhna” retreat.

✅ IANS reported this in February 2025.