Lalitha (actress)

Actress

Birthday December 16, 1930

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Thiruvananthapuram, Travancore, India (Now in Kerala)

DEATH DATE 1982, Alappuzha, Kerala, India (52 years old)

Nationality India

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1930

Lalitha (16 December 1930 – 1982) was an Indian actress and dancer.

She was the eldest of the "Travancore Sisters"—Lalitha, Padmini, and Ragini.

She was born to Thangappan Pillai and Saraswathi Amma on 16 December 1930 at Thiruvananthapuram.

She is the aunt of actress Shobana.

Malayalam actress Ambika Sukumaran is her relative.

Actress Sukumari was the trio's maternal first cousin.

Malayalam actor Krishna is her grandson.

1948

She started her acting career in the 1948 Tamil film Adhithan Kanavu and has acted in movies of different Indian languages including Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu.

She entered films before her sisters, concentrating more on Malayalam films, and was mostly cast in vamp roles.