Shwetha Menon

Shwetha Menon
Menon at an event
Born (1974-04-23) 23 April 1974 (age 50)[1][2]
Chandigarh, India[3]
Occupations
  • Actor
  • model
  • television anchor
Years active1991–present
Title
Spouses
  • Bobby Bhonsle
    ​
    ​
    (m. 2004; div. 2007)​
    [5]
  • Sreevalsan Menon
    ​
    (m. 2011)​
Children1
RelativesAnoop Menon (cousin)
AwardsKerala State Film Awards
Websitewww.shwetha-menon.com

Shwetha Menon (born 23 April 1974)[1][2] is an Indian actress, model, television anchor and beauty pageant titleholder. She has won Femina Miss India Asia Pacific 1994. She has predominantly acted in Malayalam and Hindi language films, besides appearing in a number of Telugu and Tamil Language Films. She won two Kerala State Film Awards for Best Actress and two Filmfare Award South. She participated in Bigg Boss Malayalam Season 1.[6][7]

Starting her career as an actress in Malayalam feature films in the early 1990s, she ventured into modeling and became noted, after participating and winning at several beauty pageants, which led to her debut in Bollywood. It was the film Ishq (1997) where she received notable attention as the dancer for the song, "Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai", featuring Aamir Khan and Ajay Devgn and also in Bandhan (1998). Following appearances in over 30 Hindi films, in which she generally conveyed a glamorous image, her acting career took a turn by the mid-2000s, with her returning to Malayalam cinema and accepting substantial roles.[8] She received critical praise and several accolades including the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress for her performances in Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha (2009) and Salt N' Pepper (2011). In 2018, she contestant in the Malayalam reality TV series Bigg Boss and was eliminated after 36 episodes aired on Asianet, hosted by the veteran actor Mohanlal.She simultaneously appeared in commercial films, television reality shows and parallel films.

  1. ^ a b "Happy Birthday Shwetha Menon: Lesser known facts about the diva". The Times of India.
  2. ^ a b Gomes, Eric Joseph (20 April 2023). "Swetha Menon Biography: Age, Birthday, Early Life, Career, Controversies, Awards".
  3. ^ "Actress Shweta Menon's father passes away". 1 September 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Shweta Menon is a third runnerup in Miss India contest '94". The Times of India. 11 June 2014.
  5. ^ "Divorce is like mercy killing: Bobby". The Times of India. 17 August 2007.
  6. ^ "Bigg Boss Malayalam: Mohanlal's show to begin from June 24". The Indian Express. 2 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Bigg Boss Malayalam: Mohanlal releases the motion poster". ETimes. 2 June 2018.
  8. ^ "Back to Mollywood". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 16 June 2006. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012.