Andrea Jeremiah
Andrea Jeremiah is an Indian actress, playback singer, and musician works predominantly in Tamil and Malayalam launguage films. She began her career as a playback singer, and has subsequently appeared in films as supporting to lead role.[1] She made her acting debut in Tamil film Pachaikili Muthucharam (2007), and Malayalam debut with Annayum Rasoolum (2013), and Telugu with Tadakha (2013).
She has appeared many commercialy successfully films like, Mankatha (2011), Annayum Rasoolum (2013), Vishwaroopam (2013), Tadakha (2013), Endrendrum Punnagai (2013), Aranmanai (2014), Loham (2015), Thoppil Jopaan (2016), Taramani (2017), Aval (2017) and Vada Chennai (2018), Aranmanai 3 (2021).[2][3]
Andrea Jeremiah is an Anglo-Indian actress.[4] Andrea’s father is a lawyer at the High Court in Chennai.[5][6] She has one younger sister who lives and works at Leuven, Belgium as a research assistant.[3] Jeremiah was raised near Chennai and went to National Public School and graduated from Women’s Christian College.[7] She has said that she was quite a geek and wanted to be a psychiatrist until she completed her 12th board exams.[3]
Andrea learned classical piano when she was eight. At age 10, she was a part of a Jackson Five-style troupe called Young Stars which formed the base of her early singing and music composing career. She was also a theatre artist in her college and appeared in several stage plays organised by The Madras Players and EVAM.[8][2] She was the President of the Student Senate at Women’s Christian College. She also organised a company, The Show Must Go On (TSMGO Productions), to promote live art and artistes.[9] Andrea said that as a college student, she turned down every film offer she got as she had no intention of becoming a film actor.[10]
She began her theatre career with Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala. She acted in new leo coffee advertisement with actor Shiva in 2006. She also acted in a serial which relayed In Podhigai channel. She has performed all over India. She played a brief role during the climax of Kanda Naal Mudhal (2005).[11] After she rendered a song in Gautham Menon’s Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu,[7] he asked her to play as one of the lead female character in his next venture, Pachaikili Muthucharam.[2] This film was a film adaptation of James Siegel’s novel Derailed,[12] with Andrea portraying Kalyani, a homemaker, whose husband engages in an affair and is blackmailed. Andrea was selected for the role after actresses Simran, Shobana and Tabu were approached.[12][13][14]
