Sobhita Dhulipala

Biography

Sobhita Dhulipala (born 31 May 1992) is an Indian actress. She won the Femina Miss India Earth 2013 title at Femina Miss India 2013 pageant and represented India at Miss Earth 2013.

Dhulipala made her acting debut in Anurag Kashyap's thriller film Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016) and rose to fame playing a leading role in the Amazon Prime Video drama series Made in Heaven (2019, 2023).

Dhulipala went on to appear in the Telugu films Goodachari (2018) and Major (2022), the Malayalam films Moothon (2019) and Kurup (2021), the Tamil two-part epic Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022) and Ponniyin Selvan: II (2023), and the Hindi series The Night Manager (2023).

Sobhitha Dhulipala was born on 31 May 1992, in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh into a Telugu family. Her father Venugopal Rao was a Merchant Navy engineer and her mother Santha Kamakshi was a primary school teacher.

She grew up in Visakhapatnam as a studious child who only cared about "being well-read, good in studies, school captain". Desiring broader horizons beyond her home city, she moved to Mumbai alone at the age of sixteen and later attended H.R. College of Commerce and Economics at the University of Mumbai.

She is also a trained classical dancer in Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi. Dhulipala was crowned the Navy Queen at the annual Navy Ball Pin 2010.

Dhulipala made her film debut with Anurag Kashyap's Raman Raghav 2.0 in 2016. and also signed a three-film deal with Kashyap's production company Phantom Films in July 2016. The film premiered at the Director's Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival 2016, where she was nominated by critics for best-supporting performance.

In early August 2016, she signed two films, Kaalakaandi directed by Akshat Verma, and Chef directed by Raja Menon, both starring opposite Saif Ali Khan.