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Yenigandla Vijaya (born 8 February 1957) is an Indian actress and classical dancer. She has appeared in more than 1000 films in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada languages.[1]

Y. Vijaya
Born	Yenigandla Vijaya[1] (1957-02-08) 8 February 1957 (age 65)[1] Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India
Occupation	Actress, dancer
Years active	1965–present
Spouse	Amalanathan ​ (m. 1985)​
Children	1

Early life and education

Y. Vijaya was born on 8 February 1957 in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.[1] She was brought up in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh.[2][3] Her father Yenigandla Jnanayya is a district manager in a cooperative marketing society. Her mother Balamma was a house-wife. Her family originally hailed from Guntur district. Vijaya has 9 siblings; 5 sisters, and 4 brothers. She is fifth among them.[1] One of her brothers Y. Raja is a TV actor.^{[citation needed]}

She studied in Government girls high school in Kadapa till her 8th standard. She was interested in Science and Hindi subjects. Her parents observed that she was dancing to the tune of Radio music when she was just three years old. Also she used to dance in her school for stage shows. So they decided to teach her dance.[1]

During summer holidays after she finished her 8th standard, her parents took her to Vempati China Sathyam, famous dance guru to teach her dance. To continue dance classes, they decided to join her in Kesari High school in Chennai. She studied 9th and 10th standard in that school. Her dance performance debut was in 1975 in Kadapa. Later she did many stage shows in Tamil Nadu. Once there were floods in their place. Actors N. T. Rama Rao, and Akkineni Nageswara Rao visited their place to gather money for the flood-affected areas. She met them for the first time. She went on to play heroine against N.T. Rama Rao in the film Sri Krishna Satya.[1]

Film career

She used to learn dance under Vempati China Satyam in Madras. Once, the producers of the film Nindu Hrudayalu visited their dance institute and roped her in for a beggar character who also knows dance. That was her first opportunity in films.

Personal life

Vijaya married Amalanathan on 27 January 1985.[2] He used to work as a correspondent in a college. After retiring, he entered into business. Vijaya lives in Mahalingapuram, Chennai with her family.[2] She has a daughter Anushya who got married in 2013.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2021)

Tamil

Telugu

Malayalam

• Madaalasa (1978)
• Sandhyakku Virinja Poovu (1983)
• Poomadhathe Pennu Police Annamma (1984)
• Uyarum Njan Nadake (1985)...Vasumathi Amma
• Abhayam Thedi (1986)...Tessy
• Vasudha (1992)
• Indraprastham (1996) ... Susanna John
• Devadasi (1999)

Kannada

• Lakshmi Nivasa (1977)
• Poomadhathe Pennu (1984)
• Shanti Kranti (1991)
• Shivanaga (1992)
• Simhada Mari (1997)
• Preethsod Thappa (1998)

Hindi

• Meethi Meethi Baatein (1977)
• Shanti Kranti (1991)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Channel	Language
1995	Santiniketan		ETV	Telugu
2001	Chinna Papa Periya Papa		Sun TV	Tamil
2004–2006	Kalki	Vyjayanthi	Jaya TV
2005	Comedy Dot Com		Vissa	Telugu
2005–2008	Aarthy	Parvathy	Raj TV	Tamil
2008–2013	Mogali Rekulu	Mahalaksmi	Gemini TV	Telugu
2008	Simran Thirai		Jaya TV	Tamil
2010	Abirami		Kalaignar TV	Tamil
2015–2016	Sindubad	Pattu Maami	Zee Tamizh
2018	Agni Sakshi		Star Maa	Telugu
2018	Bangaru Gajulu		Zee Telugu
2018–2019	Minnale		Sun TV	Tamil

References

External links

• Y. Vijaya at IMDb

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