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{{short description|Indian actress and model}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Gayatri Jayaraman
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| caption = Gayatri in her debut film ''Neela''
| birth_name =
| birth_place = 28 September 1979 (age 41)
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| othername = Gayatri Jayaram
| occupation = Actress, model
| spouse = Samit Sawhny (m.2007)
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'''Gayatri Jayaraman''' is an Indian actress. She played role of Devi Adishakti & Devi Parvati in Shree Ganesh very well & who has appeared predominantly in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam language films.

==Early life==
Gayatri Jayaraman was educated at Adarsh Vidyalaya and the Church Park in Chennai. She was raised in [[Shahabad, Gulbarga|Shahabad]] near [[Gulbarga]] until she was four years old, before her family headed to [[Madras]]. She spent a year in [[Bangalore]].Gayatri at first wished to pursue a career in medicine and despite gaining 94% in board exams, she did not get a medical seat, and hence began reading a B.Sc. in life science at IGNOU.<ref>[https://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/lf/2003/01/26/stories/2003012600480200.htm`Chinna+Thirai'+that+the+award-winning+Kannada+director+T.S.+Nagabharana+approached+her+for+`Neela'.&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk]{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Gayatri balanced her time between modelling and education and thus also went on to study physiotherapy at SRM College in Chennai. About her decision to simultaneously pursue qualifications she revealed that "the average life of an actress on screen is maximum four years" and that "she can always return to physiotherapy once my career as an actress is over".<ref name="glam">{{Cite web|url=http://gayathrijayaram.tripod.com/gayathrijayaramthebeautifulgirl/id3.html|title=Articles / News Items|website=gayathrijayaram.tripod.com|access-date=28 August 2011|archive-date=12 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112003610/http://gayathrijayaram.tripod.com/gayathrijayaramthebeautifulgirl/id3.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

She took up her first modelling assignments for Nailli Silks, followed by Kumaran Silks, Pothys and Chennai Silks while also participating in the beauty pageants, winning the Miss Tamil Nadu title in October 1997 and Miss South India title in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gayathrijayaram.tripod.com/gayathrijayaramthebeautifulgirl/id22.html|title=Tamil Interviews' Translations|website=gayathrijayaram.tripod.com|access-date=28 August 2011|archive-date=31 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331092704/http://gayathrijayaram.tripod.com/gayathrijayaramthebeautifulgirl/id22.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> She entered the final stages of Femina Miss India 2000, after being selected among the 26 finalists from 8000 entries and made it through to the final 5, eventually finishing fourth. She has also been a video jockey on television, having appeared for Fanta "Ilamai Pudhumai" on Sun TV and "Telephone Manipol" on Vijay TV.<ref name="glam"/>

==Career==
Gayathri began her career as an actress with director [[K. Balachander]]'s tele-serial ''Azhukku Veshti'' and rejected offers from prominent directors such as [[Arjun Sarja|Arjun]] before deciding to make her debut by featuring in Nagabharana's ''[[Neela (film)|Neela]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gayathrijayaram.tripod.com/gayathrijayaramthebeautifulgirl/id15.html|title=Interview - 4|website=gayathrijayaram.tripod.com|access-date=28 August 2011|archive-date=31 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331092708/http://gayathrijayaram.tripod.com/gayathrijayaramthebeautifulgirl/id15.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Neela'', a Kannada film about a tribal singer with cancer. It was selected as one of the thirty-two Indian films to feature at the International Film Festival of India. Gayatri won a Cinema Express Award for her performance, with a critic describing it as a "matured performance gives an impression of her being an experienced actress".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gayathrijayaram.tripod.com/gayathrijayaramthebeautifulgirl/id9.html|title=Interview - 3|website=gayathrijayaram.tripod.com|access-date=28 August 2011|archive-date=31 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331092711/http://gayathrijayaram.tripod.com/gayathrijayaramthebeautifulgirl/id9.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> She made her Tamil film debut after being approached by producer KRG to feature in his ''[[Manadhai Thirudivittai]]'' opposite [[Prabhu Deva]]. Gayatri, post-release, remarked that her role in the film was changed, with [[Kausalya (actress)|Kausalya]] playing the role that she had signed on to portray.<ref name="glam"/> The film became a commercial failure, although her appearance in the song "Manjakattu Mynaa" got her noticed.

Her Telugu film debut was with [[Srikanth (Telugu actor)|Srikanth]] in ''Aaduthu Paaduthu'', before she also went on to feature in a supporting role in ''[[Shree (2002 film)|Shree]]'' alongside [[Suriya (actor)|Suriya]], with Gayatri revealing that her role was chopped by the editors in post-production.<ref name="glam"/> She featured in another small role in ''[[Vaseegara (film)|Vaseegara]]'' alongside [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]] and [[Sneha (actress)|Sneha]], before going on to feature in a series of unsuccessful Kannada and Malayalam films.

She retired from films after her marriage and is now a certified scuba diving instructor in the Andaman Islands and briefly returned to compere the [[Chennai Super Kings]] Cheer Leaders talent show on Vijay TV in 2009. She also notably, anchored the show ''Super Kudumbam'' on Sun TV in early 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/Three-cheers/article15931284.ece|title=Three cheers!|date=21 March 2009|via=www.thehindu.com|access-date=18 April 2020|archive-date=12 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012022424/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/Three-cheers/article15931284.ece|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In May 2007 she married Samit Sawhny, an Indian entrepreneur and author, in the [[Andaman Islands]] in a small and private wedding function.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news/apr-07-04/23-04-07-gayathri-jayaram.html|title=Tamil movie news gayathri jayaram actress gayathri jayaram manadhai thirudivittai vaseegara picture gallery images|website=www.behindwoods.com|access-date=28 August 2011|archive-date=21 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021024026/http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news/apr-07-04/23-04-07-gayathri-jayaram.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"
! Year !! Film !! Role !! Language !! Notes
|-
| rowspan="3"|2001 || ''[[Neela (film)|Neela]]''|| Neela || [[Kannada]] ||
|-
|''[[Asoka (2001 film)|Asoka]]'' || Gypsy Dancer|| [[Hindi]] || Special appearance
|-
|''[[Manadhai Thirudivittai]]'' || Shruthi || [[Tamil language|Tamil]] ||
|-
| rowspan="3"|2002 || ''Aaduthu Paaduthu'' || Gayatri || [[Telugu language|Telugu]] ||
|-
| ''[[Shree (2002 film)|Shree]]'' ||Stella || rowspan="3"|[[Tamil language|Tamil]] ||
|-
| ''[[April Maadhathil]]'' || Nimmi ||
|-
||2003 || ''[[Vaseegara (film)|Vaseegara]]'' || Asha ||
|-
||2004 || ''[[Njan Salperu Ramankutty]]'' || Sangeetha || [[Malayalam]] ||
|-
|rowspan=3|2005 || ''[[Naidu LLB]]'' || ||[[Telugu language|Telugu]] ||
|-
| ''[[Lokanathan IAS]]'' || Durga || [[Malayalam]] ||
|-
| ''[[Swamy (film)|Swamy]]'' || Aishwarya || [[Kannada]] ||
|-
||2021 || ''[[Uppena]]'' || Sangeetha's mother || [[Telugu language|Telugu]] || <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzunlLhgcfs |title=Archived copy |access-date=27 April 2020 |archive-date=14 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514183838/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzunlLhgcfs |url-status=live }}</ref>
|}

==Television serials==
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"
!Year!! Title !! Role !! Channel
|-
|2000
|Shree Ganesh
|Devi Adishakti & Devi Parvati
|Sony TV
|-
|2000|| Micro Thodargal-Azhukku Vetti || Rasathi || [[Raj TV]]
|-
|2006|| Grandmaster ||rowspan=3|Herself ||[[Vijay TV]]
|-
|2012|| Super Kudumbam || [[Sun TV (India)|Sun TV]]
|-
|2013|| Nizhal Vilayathu || Rajshree Tamil
|-
|2016|| [[Achcham Thavir]] || Contestants|| [[Vijay TV]]
|-
|2017–2018|| [[Nandini (TV series)|Nandhini]]||Bhairavi||[[Sun TV (India)|Sun TV]]
|-
| 2018 || Dollhouse Diaries || Damayanthi || Webseries
|-
|2019 – 2020||[[Azhagu (TV series)|Azhagu]]||Shakunthala Devi Arinvdhan|||[[Sun TV (India)|Sun TV]]
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|1069416|Gayatri Jayaraman}}

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