T. R. Rajakumari
Birthday
1922/05/05
Day of death
1999/09/20 (77 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Thanjavur, Madras Presidency, British India
Also know as
Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajayee, T. R. Rajakumari, T R Rajakumari, T.R. Rajakumari
Biography
Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajayee popularly known by her screen name T. R. Rajakumari, was an Indian film actress, Carnatic singer and dancer. She has been called the first "dream girl" of Tamil cinema Rajayee was born in 1922 in a family of carnatic musicians. Both her mother and her grandmother wanted Rajayee to become a singer and trained her in Carnatic music. Rajayee made her film debut as "T. R. Rajakumari" in the 1939 Tamil film Kumara Kulothungan which was an average grosser. Her second fil...Read more
Acting
(1954) Manohara
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(1957) Pudhumai Pithan
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(1955) Gulebagavali
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(1953) Panakkaari
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(1953) Anbu
as Thangam
(1959) Thangapadumai
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(1944) Haridas
as Haridas' Mistress
(1957) Thangamalai Ragasiyam
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(1943) Sivakavi
as Vanji
(1960) Umma
as Zainaba
(1963) Vanambadi
as Parvathi (Thanikachalam wife)
(1952) Amarakavi
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(1946) Valmiki
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(1948) Chandralekha
as Chandralekha
(1949) Krishna Bhakthi
as Devakumari