Andrea Jeremiah
Biography
Andrea Maria Jeremiah is an Indian actress, playback singer, and musician, who works predominantly in Tamil and Malayalam language films. She made her acting debut in the Tamil film Pachaikili Muthucharam (2007), and her Malayalam debut with Annayum Rasoolum (2013).
She has appeared in many commercially successful films like Annayum Rasoolum (2013), Vishwaroopam (2013), Tadakha (2013), Endrendrum Punnagai (2013), Aranmanai (2014), Loham (2015), Thoppil Jopaan (2016), Taramani (2017), Aval (2017), Vada Chennai (2018) and Aranmanai 3 (2021).
Andrea Jeremiah was born in an Anglo-Indian family in Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu. Andrea's father is a lawyer at the Madras High Court. She has one younger sister who lives and works in Leuven, Belgium as a research assistant.
Jeremiah was raised near Chennai and went to National Public School and graduated from Women's Christian College. She has said that she was quite a geek and wanted to be a psychiatrist until she completed her 12th board exams.
Andrea learned classical piano when she was eight. At age 10, she was part of a Jackson Five-style troupe called Young Stars which formed the base of her early singing and music composing career.
She was also a theatre artist in her college and appeared in several stage plays organized by The Madras Players and EVAM. She was the President of the Student Senate at Women's Christian College.
She also organized a company, The Show Must Go On (TSMGO Productions), to promote live art and artists. Andrea said that as a college student, she turned down every film offer she got as she had no intention of becoming a film actor.
Known for
Actor
Aranmanai 3 as Eeshwari
Master as Vaanathi
Vada Chennai as Chandra
Aranmanai as Madhavi