Pooja Devariya

Pooja made her acting debut in Selvaraghavan's Mayakkam Enna (2011) portraying Padmini, a friend in Dhanush's gang. Pooja then joined the theatre group Stray Factory and has worked on stage performances and online videos with the company.^[3][4] Notably, she starred as Zorro in an interpretation of The Three Musketeers in December 2012.^[5] in 2013, she made her directorial debut was the play Maya from Madurai written by Naren Weiss.^[6]

In 2015, she worked on the production of four films, including roles in Karthik Subbaraj's Iraivi and Manikandan's Kutramum Thandanaiyum.^[7][8] In 2018, Pooja made her Kannada debut with the film Katheyondu Shuruvagide, directed by Senna Hegde.^[9] She is half Kannadiga from her mother's side.^[1]

Pooja worked with director Bharat Bala as a performance coach on Netflix's anthology, Navarasa.^[10][11][12] She has worked for Lokesh Kanagaraj's 2022 Kamal Haasan starrer Vikram, in which she was the performance coach for Vijay Sethupathi^[13] with particular emphasis on his body language for this role. Her association with Vijay Sethupathi has been a long one^[14] and she is his performance coach for both the Sriram Raghavan film Merry Christmas and Kishor Pandurang Belekar's upcoming silent feature Gandhi Talks.

• All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.

Films