Lakshmi Nakshathra

Lakshmi was born in Koorkenchery, Thrissur, to Unnikrishnan and Bindu. She began learning classical music at the age of seven and has won prizes in acting, monoact, and music competitions at the Kerala School Kalolsavam. She completed her schooling from St.Paul's Convent School, Kuriachira and I.E.S Public School, Thrissur. She completed Bachelor of Arts degree in Functional English from Christ College, Irinjalakuda and MBA from ELIMS.

She started her career as a Radio Jockey in Red FM in 2007. Lakshmi started her career as a VJ from a cable channel in Thrissur and later selected to host programmes in Jeevan TV (2008) School time which was a programme for school children to showcase their talents and Its "Really Tasty" which was a cookery show specialised in south Indian cuisine. Lakshmi also hosted Onam special programme in Amrita TV which was named as "Campus Onakkalam", "Chit chat" in WE Channel where she interviewed leading actors and actresses of south India, "Dew drops (2009)" in WE channel, which was a popular Malayalam television, Live phone-in-programme which laid a milestone in her career as an anchor. ^{[1][2][3][4][5][citation needed]}