Samyuktha (actress, born 1995)

Samyuktha Menon is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil films. She made her acting debut with the Malayalam film Popcorn (2016). She has since appeared in commercially successful films such as Kalki (2019), Edakkad Battalion 06 (2019), Bheemla Nayak (2022), Bimbisara (2022), Gaalipata 2 (2022), Vaathi (2023) and Virupaksha (2023).

Early life
Samyuktha was born on 11 September 1995, at Palakkad, Kerala. Samyuktha did her schooling from Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Thathamangalam and she is a graduate in economics.

Career
Samyuktha made her film debut in 2016 with the Malayalam film Popcorn, where she played Anjana, the love interest of Shine Tom Chacko in the movie.

She appeared in the Tamil-language action thriller Kalari as Thenmozhi. She was cast to play the title role in Lilli, a 2018 Indian Malayalam-language revenge thriller flick, scripted and directed by debutant Prasobh Vijayan. July Kaatril announced in late 2017 is a romantic comedy Tamil film. The project was released in 2018. Her next release was Theevandi a Malayalam-language political satire film directed by debutante Fellini T. P. and written by Vini Vishwa Lal.

Samyuktha's first release for 2019 was Oru Yamandan Premakadha directed by B. C. Noufal and written by Bibin George and Vishnu Unnikrishnan. She made a cameo appearance in Uyare as Tessa sharing screen space again with Tovino Thomas. Samyuktha played the role of Shivajith Padmanabhan's side-kick in the 2019 action film Kalki which had Tovino Thomas in the lead directed by Praveen Prabharam. She was later cast in Bheemla Nayak which was released in February 2022. In August 2022, she made her Kannada debut in the film Gaalipata 2.

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Samyuktha is considered among the highest-paid Malayalam actresses. In the Kochi Times Most Desirable Women list, Samyuktha was placed 7th both in 2018 and 2019, and 2nd in 2020.

Personal life
In 2023, Samyuktha dropped her surname Menon from her name and said, "When I want to see equality, humanity and love all around, keeping a surname makes it very contradictory to what I want."