Key facts
- Born
- ( 1992-05-11 ) 11 May 1992 (age 34) , Mumbai , Maharashtra , India
- Other names
- Chamundeswari Lakshmi Narasimhan Sundaresan Iyer, Adah Sarma
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 2008–present
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Sharma
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- Mumbai
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- Kannada
- Award
- Zee Cine Awards
- Hair colour
- black hair
- Image
- Adah Sharma snapped at the Mumbai Icons Award 2025.jpg
- Height
- 170
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- Commons category
- Adah Sharma
- social media followers
- 1660000
- date of birth
- 1992-05-11
- start of work period
- 2008-00-00
- ethnic group
- Malayali
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Encyclopedic overview
Adah Sharma (born 11 May 1992) ( pronounced [ˈʌdə ʃəɾmaː]), is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Hindi and Telugu films. She is best known for being the main lead of The Kerala Story, which made ₹375 crore at the box office making it India's highest-grossing female-led film of all time.
Sharma, after finishing her schooling, made her acting debut with a leading role in the 2008 Hindi horror film, 1920, a box office success. Her portrayal of a possessed woman in the film was critically praised and earned her a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut nomination. After the release of her romantic comedy film, Hasee Toh Phasee (2014), she ventured into the South Indian film industry, playing the leading lady in the Telugu film, Heart Attack (2014). Her other major Telugu films include, S/O Satyamurthy (2015) and Kshanam (2016). She also starred as the lead actress in the film The Kerala Story (2023).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adah Sharma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.