Anu Prabhakar


Anu Prabhakar, also known by her married name Anu Prabhakar Mukherjee, is an Indian film actress, who predominantly appears in Kannada films and is from Mangalore.

Early life

Anu was born in Bangalore to M. V. Prabhakar, an employee with Bharat Heavy Electricals, and dubbing artiste and actress Gayathri Prabhakar. She has an older brother, Vikram. Anu grew up in the Malleswaram suburb of Bangalore, and was educated in the Nirmala Rani High School there. During the time, she appeared as a child artiste in the Kannada films Chapala Chennigaraya, Shanti Kranti, and the English film Mysteries of the Dark Jungle. While she dropped out of college when her career as a heroine took off she later went on to pursue a Master's degree in sociology from Karnataka University through correspondence.

Career

Anu made her debut as a heroine in 1999 with Hrudaya Hrudaya opposite Shiva Rajkumar and soon became a top rung heroine in Kannada films. She has co-starred with superstar Vishnuvardhan in several films like Soorappa, Jamindarru, Hrudayavantha, Sahukaara and Varsha. She went on to act in a few Tamil movies as well.
In her upcoming 2020 film based on the life of 12th-century Kannada poet Akka Mahadevi, she plays a dual role; one of the poet and the other of Jyothi, a girl who pursues PhD on the poet.

Awards

Anu Prabhakar was honoured by Bangalore's Kolada Math, with the title 'Abhinaya Saraswathi' for her performance in various films. She has won other awards such as 'Kannada State Government best actress award 2000–01' and 'Cinema Express best actress'.

Personal life

In 2009, she gave her voice to an HIV/AIDS education animated software tutorial created by the nonprofit organisation TeachAIDS.
Anu married Krishna Kumar, the son of actress Jayanthi in March 2002. Citing differences between them, they divorced in January 2014. In April 2016, she married Raghu Mukherjee, a model-turned-actor.
They have a daughter named Nandana.

Filmography

Films

Television