Samantha has said that she did modelling for earning pocket money, and that's how her acting career came about. She then went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Stella Maris College, Chennai.

Samantha attended and completed her schooling at St.Stephens Matriculation school, Pallavaram, and Holy Angels Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School, T.Nagar, Chennai. Commenting on her sense of identity, the actress has stated that despite her Telugu and Malayalam background she sees herself as a Tamilian, as her family speaks Tamil & English at home. Samantha Ruth Prabhu was born to a Telugu father & Malayali mother and was brought up in a typical middle-class household, in the Chennai suburb of Pallavaram, Tamil Nadu, becoming fluent in the Tamil language. She received the SIIMA Award for Best Actress for Attarintiki Daredi in 2014. In 2013, Samantha became the second actress after Revathi to win both the Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress and the Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actress in the same year, for the films Neethaane En Ponvasantham and Eega, respectively. In mid 2012, Samantha started a charity organization named Pratyusha Support for the underprevileged woman and children. Despite signing up to Ravi Varman's Moscowin Kavery in 2007, her first release was the critically acclaimed 2010 Telugu romance film, Ye Maaya Chesave directed by Gautham Menon, which fetched her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut вЂ“ South and a Nandi Award. Samantha was raised in Chennai and pursued a career in modelling during her late teens.

Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian actress and model, who acts in Telugu and Tamil films.

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