Sai Pallavi

Biography

Sai Pallavi Senthamarai Kannan (born 9 May 1992), is an Indian actress, dancer, and physician who predominantly works in Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam cinema. She appeared as a contestant on the dance reality shows Ungalil Yaar Adutha Prabhu Deva (2008) and Dhee Ultimate Dance Show (2009) before beginning her acting career.

Pallavi made her acting debut as the college lecturer Malar in Alphonse Puthren's romantic drama Premam (2015), for which she received the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South. She followed this with Sameer Thahir's Kali (2016) and made her Telugu debut in Sekhar Kammula's romance Fidaa (2017). Her subsequent work includes Middle Class Abbayi (2017), Maari 2 (2018), Athiran (2019), the anthology Paava Kadhaigal (2020), Love Story (2021), Shyam Singha Roy (2021), the period drama Virata Parvam (2022), and the social courtroom drama Gargi (2022).

Pallavi portrayed Indu Rebecca Varghese in Rajkumar Periasamy's biographical war drama Amaran (2024), opposite Sivakarthikeyan, and starred alongside Naga Chaitanya in Chandoo Mondeti's romantic drama Thandel (2025). She made her Hindi-film debut with the romantic drama Ek Din (2026), alongside Junaid Khan, and played Sita in Nitesh Tiwari's mythological film Ramayana: Part 1 (2026), opposite Ranbir Kapoor. She received the Kalaimamani honour from the Government of Tamil Nadu in 2021 and has won seven Filmfare Awards South, a Tamil Nadu State Film Award, and three SIIMA Awards.