Kavya Shetty

Shetty was born Mangalore, Karnataka.^[4][5] After doing her schooling in Mangalore, she graduated in Computer Science engineering from N.M.A.M. Institute of Technology, Nitte.

While in college, Shetty did a few modelling assignments following appearances in several television commercials. She later moved to Bangalore and took part in 2011 Femina Miss India beauty pageant,^[4] winning the 'Miss Photogenic' title.^[6][7][8][9] She also worked as a commercial model and appeared in several print and television advertisements.^[4]

In 2012, Shetty entered the Indian film industry. She first signed to Shivani, a bilingual horror flick, made in Telugu and Tamil,^[10] in which she played a journalist.^[5] However, the delay of this film meant that Shetty's maiden release was the Kannada film Nam Duniya Nam Style (2013) by Preetham Gubbi.^[6] While the film received mixed reviews, critics noted that Shetty had "given [a] lively performance" ^[11] and "show[n] tremendous promise".^[12] Her future releases include the semi-period Kannada film Vijayaaditya.^[4] She has also been cast as one of the female leads in A. L. Vijay's next Tamil film, which according to Shetty is a "fun-filled" romantic drama set against a college backdrop.^[13]

Shetty saw success with Ishtakamya, directed by well known filmmaker Nagathihalli Chandrashekar.^[14] She had three film releases in 2017: Smile Please,^[15] starring Gurunandan, MMM',^[16] with Aru Gowda; and Silicon City,^[17] with Srinagar Kitty.

The year 2020 and 2021 saw Kavya in movies of both Kannada and Telugu language.^[18] Kavya set her feet on the sets of Ravichandran's upcoming movie Ravi Bopanna^[19] as a lead female, while she was seen in the title track of Yuvarathna^[20] starring Puneeth Rajkumar.

Kavya is seen in her upcoming Telugu movie Gurthunda Seethakalam with Satyadev and Tamannaah, directed by Nagashekar.^[18] One of the other major project is Yogi-starrer Lanke where she is sharing screens with Sanchari Vijay, Krishi Thapanda^[21] Kavya is working on her next project with Jayaram Karthik titled Kaada.^[22] The movie is set to release early next year. Her other upcoming projects are Sold^[23] which is ready for release and 6C^[24] for which the shooting is yet to commence.

In the Bangalore Time Most Desirable Women list, Shetty was placed 29th in 2017.^[25] In 219, Shetty launched her clothing and jewellery brand, Kassh.^[26] She is also connected with Aadyaa Foundation and contribute to children welfare.^[27][28]