Pooja Umashankar

Pooja Umashankar is also popularly known as Pooja Gauthami Umashankar. Pooja was born in the year 1981 in Sri Lanka. She is an Indian-Sri Lankan actress whose father is an Indian Kannadiga Brahmin and mother is a Sri Lankan. She has proved her acting skills in Tamil movies as well as Malayalam, amateur, Sinhala films. Pooja has completed her pre-schooling in Sri Lanka, and later on, they moved to India. Pooja’s father was not at all interested in the film industry, but she had a keen interest in this industry. She has completed her post graduate degree in Bangalore. She started her career as a role of the Anglo-Indian girl in a Tamil venture. Pooja received many favorable reviews in her second film opposite R. Madhavan.

She has started working in commercial Tamil movies. She appeared in many Tamil flicks. Later on, she appeared in Malayalam cinemas. Pooja has received Film fare Award for Best Tamil Actress. She is a sensation in Sri-Lankan Film Industry, and this gave her wings for popularity. She was a judge in a dance show. She was a part of a short film that was shot in 2011. Her critics by the viewers made her more popular. She made herself one of the most well-known leading actresses of Sinhala movies. In 2014, she appeared as a guest appearance in a Tamil movie. In 2014, she got engaged to Srilankan Model Deepak Shanmuganathan. After one year they split saying that there are differences in their lifestyles, dreams, sensitives and expectations.

Six years ago, there was a rumor that an MMS clip was uploaded and titled as ‘Tamil actress Pooja’s hot clip. Since she was a top class model in Sri Lankan movies, these all soared around her.