Kavya Shetty is an Indian actress and model who primarily appears in Kannada films. Shetty made her acting debut in 2013 with the Kannada film Nam Duniya Nam Style.[2] She has since received commercial success with Ishtakamya (2016), Zoom (2016), Siliconn City (2017) and Bro Daddy (2022).[3]
Early life
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.
Career
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]
Shetty in 2017
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]
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]
