This is a list of notable actresses who appear in Kannada cinema, primarily based in Karnataka.

A

Aamani Abhirami Aarathi Anu Mehta Aindrita Ray Amulya Asha Bhat Amy Jackson Ambika Archana Jois Amrutha Iyengar Anu Prabhakar Anushree Archana Archana Aruna Irani Arundhati Nag Anupama Gowda Asha Sharath Asha Parekh Amritha Aiyer Asmita Sood Aishani Shetty Akshara Gowda Aruna Balraj Aishwarya Arjun Avantika Shetty Aditi Prabhudeva Ashika Ranganath Anita Hassanandani Advani Lakshmi Devi

B

Bhama Bhanupriya Bhavya Bhagyashree Bhavana Bhavana Bhavana Rao Bhoomi Shetty Bharathi Vishnuvardhan Bhargavi Narayan Bhumika Chawla B. Jayashree

C

Chandrakala Chandrika Chaya Singh Catherine Tresa Chitkala Biradar

D

Deepa Deepti Sati Disha Madan Deepa Sannidhi Divya Spandana Disha Poovaiah Dubbing Janaki Deepika Padukone

E

Erica Fernandes

G

Gautami Gayatri Geetha Gayathiri Iyer Genelia D'Souza Gayatri Jayaraman

H

Harini Hariprriya Hema Choudhary Hebah Patel Harshika Poonacha

I

Indira Devi Isha Koppikar

J

J. Jayalalithaa Juhi Chawla Jayamala Jayamalini Jaya Pradha Jayanthi Jyotika Jennifer Kotwal

K

Kalpana Kanchana Karthika Nair Kaveri Kausalya Kriti Kharbanda Krishna Kumari Kumari Padmini Kusalakumari Kavitha Gowda Kutty Padmini Kushee Ravi Kavya Shetty Karunya Ram Kruttika Ravindra Kristina Akheeva Kiara Advani

L

Laila Lakshmi Lakshmidevi Leelavathi Lakshmi Gopalaswamy

M

Meena Madhoo Madhavi Manjula Meghashree Malashri Mayuri Kyatari Manorama Manvitha Kamath Mahalakshmi Madhuri Itagi Meera Jasmine Milana Nagaraj Meghana Raj Moon Moon Sen Meenakshi Dixit Meghana Gaonkar

N

Nalini Nagma Namitha Nayanthara Neethu Navya Nair Nivedhitha Nabha Natesh Nithya Menon Nikki Galrani Nithya Ram Neha Shetty Nikesha Patel Nishvika Naidu Nikita Thukral Nidhi Subbaiah Nisha Ravikrishnan

O

Oviya

P

Poorna Padmavati Rao Pandari Bai Parvathy

Pooja Gandhi Pramila Joshai Prema Prathima Devi Pranitha Subhash Priyanka Thimmesh Priya Anand Priyamani Parul Yadav Priya Tendulkar Pavitra Lokesh Priyanka Upendra Priyanka Kothari

R

Radha Rekha Rashmi Rachita Ram Ranya Rao Radhika Rachel David Roopadevi Raai Laxmi Radhika Pandit Ragini Dwivedi Rashmi Prabhakar Rajani Ramya Krishna Ranjani Raghavan Rashmika Mandanna Rukmini Vasanth Rajasulochana Rekha Rachana Inder Roshni Prakash Rekha Vedavyas Raveena Tandon Reeshma Nanaiah Rishika Singh Roja Ramani Ramya Barna Radhika Narayan Rajshri Ponnappa Renukamma Murugodu Rakul Preet Singh Reba Monica John Roja Selvamani

S

Sanghavi Saroja Devi Satyabhama Savitri Sithara Shilpa Sadha Sonali Bendre Shilpa Shetty Shobha Sayyeshaa Shobhana Shwetha Sherin Sanjana Anand Sushma Raj Samyuktha Hegde Shubha Sharmiela Mandre Suhasini Maniratnam Sudha Chandran Sukanya Shruti Suman Ranganathan Sumithra Sonu Gowda Sridevi Soundarya Sripriya Sanjjanaa Sudharani Sreeleela Sameera Reddy Sowcar Janaki Shraddha Das Shriya Saran Sanjana Anand Sindhu Tolani Shubha Poonja Sai Dhanshika Sonal Monteiro Sapthami Gowda Sangeetha Bhat Sudha Belawadi Sindhu Lokanath Samyukta Hornad Srinidhi Shetty Shraddha Srinath Sruthi Hariharan Sangeita Chauhan Shanvi Srivastava Sanchita Padukone Shwetha Srivatsav Sangeetha Sringeri

T

Tara Tulasi Tripuramba Tanya Hope Tulip Joshi

U

Umashree Urvashi Urvashi Rautela

V

Vedhika Vijayalakshmi Vanitha Vasu Veena Sundar Vijayalalitha Vijayashanti Vinaya Prasad Varsha Bollamma Vaishnavi Gowda Vaibhavi Shandilya Vijayalakshmi Singh Vaishali Kasaravalli Varalaxmi Sarathkumar

Y

Yamuna Yagna Shetty

Other notable Many actresses have made their debut with Kannada films or debuted in lead role with Kannada films or have played their first credited role in Kannada films and later went onto work in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil cinema. These include: J. Jayalalithaa with Shri Shaila Mahathme (1961), Lakshmi with Goa Dalli CID 999 (1968), Rekha with Operation Jackpot Nalli C.I.D 999 (1969), Shubha with Naagarahaavu (1972), Soundarya with Baa Nanna Preethisu (1992) and Gandharva (1992), Rajeshwari with Gandhada Gudi Part 2 (1994), Monal Naval with Indradhanush (2000), Gayatri Jayaraman with Neela (2001), Bhavna Pani with Yuvaraja (2001), Deepika Padukone with Aishwarya (2006), Nithya Menen with 7 O' Clock (2006), Surveen Chawla with Paramesha Panwala (2008), Rakul Preet Singh with Gilli (2009), Catherine Tresa with Shankar IPS (2010), Yami Gautam with Ullasa Utsaha (2010), Reema Worah with Gubbi (2010), Gayathiri Iyer with Shravana (2011), Karishma Tanna with I Am Sorry Mathe Banni Preethsona (2011), Daisy Shah with Bhadra (2011), Sakshi Agarwal with Software Ganda (2014), Shraddha Srinath with U Turn (2016), Rukshar Dhillon with Run Antony (2016), Rashmika Mandanna with Kirik Party (2016), Rukmini Vasanth with Birbal Trilogy Case 1 (2019), Priyanka Arul Mohan with Ondh Kathe Hella (2019), Sreeleela with Kiss (2019) and Kayadu Lohar with Mugilpete (2021).

See also Kannada cinema List of Indian film actresses List of Hindi film actresses List of Tamil film actresses List of Telugu film actresses

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