Sandhya

Acting

01 Jan 1924

† 01 Nov 1971

Srirangam, Trichy district, Madras Presidency, British Raj (present-day Tamil Nadu, India)

Biography

Vedhavalli, better known as Sandhya (1924 – 1 November 1971) was a South Indian film actress, who appeared in Tamil, Kannada and Telugu films. She adopted the screen name Sandhya for her acting career and was known for portraying character roles, often as the heroine’s sister or mother. Her younger sister, Vidyavathi, was also an actress. She was the mother of former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa. She acted in the Malaikkallan (1954), which starred M. G. Ramachandran and was writt...