Smt. Sumalatha

Actress

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Sumalatha is an Indian film actress. She has acted in more than 150 films in Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi.

Sumalatha began acting at age 15, after winning an Andhra Pradesh beauty contest in 1979. Her first film was Thisai Maariya Paravaigal (Tamil) for which she got the Best New Face Award.

Born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and raised in a Telugu family in Bethapudi, Andhra Pradesh, She gained popularity in Malayalam cinema and later married Kannada actor-politician Ambarish and has a son Abhishek Gowda.