Pooja Devariya
Biography
Pooja Devariya is an Indian film and theatre actress who is known for her works in Tamil and Kannada films. After making her film debut with Selvaraghavan's Mayakkam Enna (2012), she worked extensively in theatre with the Stray Factory, before returning to films in 2015.
Pooja made her acting debut in Selvaraghavan's Mayakkam Enna (2011) portraying Padmini, a friend in Dhanush's gang. Pooja then joined the theatre group Stray Factory and has worked on stage performances and online videos with the company.
Notably, she starred as Zorro in an interpretation of The Three Musketeers in December 2012. in 2013, she made her directorial debut was the play Maya from Madurai written by Naren Weiss.
In 2015, she worked on the production of four films, including roles in Karthik Subbaraj's Iraivi and Manikandan's Kutramum Thandanaiyum. In 2018, Pooja made her Kannada debut with the film Katheyondu Shuruvagide, directed by Senna Hegde. She is half Kannadiga from her mother's side.
Pooja worked with director Bharat Bala as a performance coach on Netflix's anthology, Navarasa. She has worked for Lokesh Kanagaraj's 2022 Kamal Haasan starrer Vikram, in which she was the performance coach for Vijay Sethupathi with particular emphasis on his body language for this role.
Her association with Vijay Sethupathi has been a long one and she is his performance coach for both the upcoming Sriram Raghavan film Merry Christmas and Kishor Pandurang Belekar's upcoming silent feature Gandhi Talks.
