Rashi Khanna
Biography
Raashii Khanna (born 30 November 1990) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Telugu and Tamil films.
She made her acting debut in a supporting role with the Hindi film Madras Cafe (2013) and subsequently had starring roles in the Telugu film Oohalu Gusagusalade (2014), Tamil film Imaikkaa Nodigal (2018) and Malayalam film Villain (2017).
Khanna's commercially successful films include Bengal Tiger (2015), Supreme (2016), Jai Lava Kusa (2017), Tholi Prema (2018), Imaikkaa Nodigal (2018), Venky Mama (2019), Prati Roju Pandage (2019), Thiruchitrambalam (2022), and Sardar (2022), which established her as one of the leading actresses in Telugu and Tamil cinema.
Khanna has also sung a few songs in different languages. She has since starred in the streaming series Rudra: The Edge of Darkness (2022) and Farzi (2023).
Khanna was born on 30 November 1990 and hails from Delhi. She did her schooling at St. Mark's Senior Secondary Public School, Delhi, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with honors in English at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi.
According to Khanna, she was an academic topper who was extremely studious, and geek during her schooling and college days. When Khanna was young, she wanted to become a singer but as she grew up, she was more interested in studying and aspired to become an IAS officer.
Khanna claims that she neither had an interest in modeling nor thought of becoming an actress and it was her destiny that made her an actress. During her college days, she tried a hand at copywriting for advertisements, before she made her venture into acting in various advertisements prior to films.
