# List of Kannada film actresses

This is a list of notable actresses who appear in Kannada cinema, primarily based in Karnataka.

## A

* Aamani
* Abhirami
* Aarathi
* Anu Mehta
* Aindrita Ray
* Amulya
* Asha Bhat
* Amy Jackson
* Ambika
* Archana Jois
* Amrutha Iyengar
* Anu Prabhakar
* Anushree
* Archana
* Archana
* Aruna Irani
* Arundhati Nag
* Anupama Gowda
* Asha Sharath
* Asha Parekh
* Amritha Aiyer
* Asmita Sood
* Aishani Shetty
* Akshara Gowda
* Aruna Balraj
* Aishwarya Arjun
* Avantika Shetty
* Aditi Prabhudeva
* Ashika Ranganath
* Anita Hassanandani
* Advani Lakshmi Devi

## B

* Bhama
* Bhanupriya
* Bhavya
* Bhagyashree
* Bhavana
* Bhavana
* Bhavana Rao
* Bhoomi Shetty
* Bharathi Vishnuvardhan
* Bhargavi Narayan
* Bhumika Chawla
* B. Jayashree

## C

* Chandrakala
* Chandrika
* Chaya Singh
* Catherine Tresa
* Chitkala Biradar

## D

* Deepa
* Deepti Sati
* Disha Madan
* Deepa Sannidhi
* Divya Spandana
* Disha Poovaiah
* Dubbing Janaki
* Deepika Padukone

## E

* Erica Fernandes
* Ester Noronha

## G

* Gautami
* Gayatri
* Geetha
* Gayathiri Iyer
* Genelia D'Souza
* Gayatri Jayaraman

## H

* Harini
* Hariprriya
* Hema Choudhary
* Hebah Patel
* Harshika Poonacha

## I

* Indira Devi
* Isha Koppikar

## J

* J. Jayalalithaa
* Juhi Chawla
* Jayamala
* Jayamalini
* Jaya Pradha
* Jayanthi
* Jyotika
* Jennifer Kotwal

## K

* Kalpana
* Kanchana
* Karthika Nair
* Kaveri
* Kausalya
* Kriti Kharbanda
* Krishna Kumari
* Kumari Padmini
* Kusalakumari
* Kavitha Gowda
* Kutty Padmini
* Kushee Ravi
* Kavya Shetty
* Karunya Ram
* Kruttika Ravindra
* Kristina Akheeva

## L

* Laila
* Lakshmi
* Lakshmidevi
* Leelavathi
* Lakshmi Gopalaswamy

## M

* Meena
* Madhoo
* Madhavi
* Manjula
* Meghasri
* Malashri
* Mayuri Kyatari
* Manorama
* Manvitha Kamath
* Mahalakshmi
* Madhuri Itagi
* Meera Jasmine
* Milana Nagaraj
* Meghana Raj
* Moon Moon Sen
* Meenakshi Dixit
* Meghana Gaonkar

## N

* Nalini
* Nagma
* Namitha
* Nayanthara
* Neethu
* Navya Nair
* Nivedhitha
* Nabha Natesh
* Nithya Menon
* Nikki Galrani
* Nithya Ram
* Neha Shetty
* Nikesha Patel
* Nishvika Naidu
* Nikita Thukral
* Nidhi Subbaiah
* Nisha Ravikrishnan

## O

* Oviya

## P

* Poorna
* Padmavati Rao
* Pandari Bai
* Parvathy
* Pooja Gandhi
* Pramila Joshai
* Prema
* Prathima Devi
* Pranitha Subhash
* Priyanka Thimmesh
* Priya Anand
* Priyamani
* Parul Yadav
* Priya Tendulkar
* Pavitra Lokesh
* Priyanka Upendra
* Priyanka Kothari

## R

* Radha
* Rekha
* Rashmi
* Rachita Ram
* Ranya Rao
* Radhika
* Rachel David
* Roopadevi
* Raai Laxmi
* Radhika Pandit
* Ragini Dwivedi
* Rashmi Prabhakar
* Rajani
* Ramya Krishna
* Ranjani Raghavan
* Rashmika Mandanna
* Rukmini Vasanth
* Rajasulochana
* Rekha
* Rachana Inder
* Roshni Prakash
* Rekha Vedavyas
* Raveena Tandon
* Reeshma Nanaiah
* Rishika Singh
* Roja Ramani
* Ramya Barna
* Radhika Narayan
* Rajshri Ponnappa
* Renukamma Murugodu
* Rakul Preet Singh
* Reba Monica John

## S

* Sanghavi
* Saroja Devi
* Satyabhama
* Savitri
* Sithara
* Shilpa
* Sadha
* Sonali Bendre
* Shilpa Shetty
* Shobha
* Sayyeshaa
* Shobhana
* Shwetha
* Sherin
* Sanjana Anand
* Sushma Raj
* Samyuktha Hegde
* Shubha
* Sharmiela Mandre
* Suhasini Maniratnam
* Sudha Chandran
* Sukanya
* Shruti
* Suman Ranganathan
* Sonu Gowda
* Sridevi
* Soundarya
* Sripriya
* Sanjjanaa
* Sudharani
* Sreeleela
* Sameera Reddy
* Sowcar Janaki
* Shraddha Das
* Shriya Saran
* Sanjana Anand
* Sindhu Tolani
* Shubha Poonja
* Sai Dhanshika
* Sonal Monteiro
* Sapthami Gowda
* Sangeetha Bhat
* Sudha Belawadi
* Sindhu Lokanath
* Samyukta Hornad
* Srinidhi Shetty
* Shraddha Srinath
* Sruthi Hariharan
* Sangeita Chauhan
* Shanvi Srivastava
* Sanchita Padukone
* Shwetha Srivatsav
* Sangeetha Sringeri

## T

* Tara
* Tulasi
* Tripuramba
* Tanya Hope
* Tulip Joshi

## U

* Umashree
* Urvashi
* Urvashi Rautela

## V

* Vedhika
* Vijayalakshmi
* Vanitha Vasu
* Veena Sundar
* Vijayalalitha
* Vijayashanti
* Vinaya Prasad
* Varsha Bollamma
* Vaishnavi Gowda
* Vaibhavi Shandilya
* Vijayalakshmi Singh
* Vaishali Kasaravalli
* Varalaxmi Sarathkumar

## Y

* Yamuna
* Yagna Shetty

## Other notable

Many actresses have made their debut with Kannada films and went onto work in Hindi, and other cinema. These include: J. Jayalalithaa with Shri Shaila Mahathme (1961), Rekha with Operation Jackpot Nalli C.I.D 999 (1969), Soundarya with Gandharva (2006), Deepika Padukone with Aishwarya (2006), Nithya Menen with 7 O' Clock (2006) and Rakul Preet Singh with Gilli (2009).