Lakshmi

Lakshmi Narayan is an Indian film actress in Tamil Nadu, India. She has won a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award in the Best Actress category.

Lakshmi is best known for her title role in the Hindi hit film Julie (1975), for which she won the Filmfare Best Actress Award. She also directed a Kannada movie Makkala Sainya.

Her father Yaragudipati Varada Rao (aka Y.V. Rao), originally from Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, was a filmmaker and actor whose films dealt with important social issues. Her mother Kumari Rukhmani was a Tamil actress, whose mother Nungambakkam Janaki was also an actress. They eased her into films, making her a third-generation film actress. She was fifteen when she started acting in films. Her first film was a Tamil film titled Jeevanamsam (1968).

She became a star in South India in the...