Acting

Rakul Preet Singh

Rakul Preet Singh (born 10 October 1991) is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada cinema. She made her acting debut in the Kannada film *Gilli* (2009), followed by her Telugu debut in *Keratam* (2011) and Tamil debut in *Thadaiyara Thaakka* (2012). Her breakthrough in Telugu cinema came with Merlapaka Gandhi's *Venkatadri Express* (2013), for which she received a Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu nomination. She made her Hindi starring debut in Divya Khosla Kumar's *Yaariyan* (2014). Her subsequent Telugu films included *Loukyam* (2014), *Current Theega* (2014), *Pandaga Chesko* (2015), *Kick 2* (2015), *Bruce Lee: The Fighter* (2015), Sukumar's *Nannaku Prematho* (2016), Boyapati Srinu's *Sarrainodu* (2016), Surender Reddy's *Dhruva* (2016), *Rarandoi Veduka Chudham* (2017), *Jaya Janaki Nayaka* (2017), and A. R. Murugadoss's bilingual thriller *Spyder* (2017). She also appeared in H. Vinoth's Tamil action thriller *Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru* (2017). Her Hindi film roles included the romantic comedy *De De Pyaar De* (2019), *Marjaavaan* (2019), *Attack* (2022), *Runway 34* (2022), *Doctor G* (2022), *Thank God* (2022), and the social comedy-drama *Chhatriwali* (2023). Her later South Indian films included Krish Jagarlamudi's *Konda Polam* (2021), R. Ravikumar's Tamil science-fiction film *Ayalaan* (2024), and S. Shankar's vigilante action sequel *Indian 2* (2024). Her other credits include Mudassar Aziz's comedy *Mere Husband Ki Biwi* (2025), the romantic comedy sequel *De De Pyaar De 2* (2025), *Pati Patni Aur Woh Do* (2026), and Nitesh Tiwari's mythological film *Ramayana: Part 1* (2026), in which she portrays Surpanakha.