Poonam Kaur

Poonam Kaur
Born	Hyderabad, India
Other name(s)	Deepa
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2006 - Present

Poonam Kaur is an Indian actress and model. She has frequently appeared in Telugu films apart from Tamil and Kannada films.

[edit] Career

Born and brought up in Hyderabad, India,^[1] Poonam Kaur did her schooling there as well, before doing fashion designing at the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in Delhi.^[1] In 2006, after her studies, she signed up for a film to be directed by Teja, which didn't take off for reasons unknown. However, she instead took up the offer for another Teja film, Oka Vichitram.^[1] Even before the release of that film, Kaur was lying the lead role in another Telugu film, Mayajalam, which, in fact, released first.^[1]

Subsequently, she appeared in several Telugu film as Nikki And Neeraj, enacting the title role of Nikki and Souryam, alongside Gopichand and Anushka Shetty. For her performance in the latter, Kaur received a nomination for the Best Suuporting Actress Award for 2008. She made her acting debut in the Tamil and Kannada film industries, with S. A. Chandrasekhar's Nenjirukkum Varai and Bandhu Balaga, respectively. In 2009, she made a comeback in Tamil with the highly anticipated Unnaipol Oruvan, a remake of the 2008 Bollywood film, A Wednesday!, in which she played a small supporting role alongside legendary actors Kamal Haasan and Mohan Lal.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2006	Mayajalam	Swati Rajender	Telugu
	Oka Vichitram	Deepa	Telugu
2007	Nikki And Neeraj	Nikki	Telugu
	Nenjirukkum Varai	Bhuvana Rangasamy Naidu	Tamil
2008	Souryam	Divya	Telugu	Nominated, Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Bandhu Balaga		Kannada
	Vinayakudu	Sandhya (Sandy)	Telugu
2009	Unnaipol Oruvan	Anu Sethuraman	Tamil
	Ganesh	Deepa	Telugu
	Manjina Hani		Kannada	Filming
2010	Nagavalli		Telugu	Filming
	Gaganam		Telugu	Filming