Manjima Mohan is an Indian actress who primarily appears in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. She started her career as a child artist in Malayalam films. she made her debut as a lead actress with Oru Vadakkan Selfie (2015) in Malayalam and Achcham Enbadhu Madamaiyada (2016) in Tamil. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South in 2017.
Personal life
Manjima is the daughter of veteran cinematographer Vipin Mohan and dancer Kalamandalam Girija. After completing her schooling at Nirmala Bhavan Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, she pursued a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from Stella Maris College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She married actor Gautham Ram Karthik on 28 November 2022.
Career Manjima was a leading child artist in Malayalam film industry in early 2000s later she also hosted a television call-in show for kids by the name ‘'Hai Kids'’ on Surya TV for three years which rose her fame among Malayali audience.
Despite having had acting experience, she said that she was "not at all confident" when she started shooting for the film and that the initial days were "terrifying". Oru Vadakkan Selfie, which was directed by G. Prajith and scripted by Vineeth Sreenivasan, featured Manjima Mohan as the female lead.
Upon the release of Oru Vadakkan Selfie, Manjima landed her first Tamil film, Achcham Enbadhu Madamaiyada. Its director Gautham Vasudev Menon, who was impressed with her work in Oru Vadakkan Selfie, cast Manjima as the female lead, after she had gone through an audition.
In 2017 she had two Tamil films, one opposite Udhayanidhi Stalin - Ippadai Vellum and the other, Sathriyan, opposite Vikram Prabhu. In 2019, she made her come back to Malayalam with Mikhael opposite Nivin Pauly for the second time . She also has a few Tamil films in her career, including Tughlaq Durbar with Vijay Sethupathi, and Raashii Khanna. Her first release in 2023 was a Horror Thriller film Boo directed by A. L. Vijay that directly premiered on JioCinema. and in 2025, she made special appearance in Suzhal: The Vortex season 2.
Filmography Films Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year Title Role Language NotesRef. 1997 Kaliyoonjal Younger Ammu Malayalam Child artist 1998 Mayilpeelikkavu Gayathri's relative 1999 Saaphalyam Sreethumol 2000 Priyam Anu Thenkasipattanam Younger Devootty Madhuranombarakattu Maya Kabooliwala 2001 Sundara Purushan Suryanarayanan's daughter 2015 Oru Vadakkan Selfie Daisy George Debut as lead2016 Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada Leela Raman Tamil Sahasam Swasaga Sagipo LeelaTelugu 2017 Sathriyan Niranjana Tamil Ippadai Vellum Bhargavi 2019 NTR: Kathanayakudu Nara Bhuvaneshwari Telugu NTR: Mahanayakudu Mikhael Mary Malayalam Devarattam Madhu Tamil 2021 Kalathil Sandhippom Kavya Tughlaq Durbar Manimegalai 2022 FIR Prarthana Raman 2023BooNeelu Tamil / TeluguReleased on JioCinema Television + List of Manjima Mohan television credits Year Title Role Notes 2025 Suzhal: The Vortex Nagamma Season 2
Awards and nominations
YearAwardCategory FilmResult2001 Asianet Film Awards Best child artistPriyam2001Kerala State Film Award Kerala State Film Award for Best Child ArtistMadhuranombarakattu2001Kerala State Television AwardKerala State Television Award for Best Child ArtistKabulivaala2016SIIMABest Debut-Female (Malayalam)Oru Vadakkan Selfie2017Filmfare AwardFilmfare Award for Best Female Debut – SouthAchcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada20176th South Indian International Movie AwardsBest Debut-Female (Tamil)2017Edison Awards (India)Best debut actress
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