# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saranya-ponvannan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:24:45.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saranya-ponvannan"
name: "Saranya Ponvannan"
slug: "saranya-ponvannan"
description: "Saranya Ponvannan is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam and a few Kannada language films. She also acted in one Hindi movie Chup: Revenge of the Artist in 2022. Saranya made her acting debut in a lead role in Mani Ratnam's Nayakan (1987) and went on to play lead roles from 1987 to 1996. Following an eight-year sabbatical, she returned to films in 2003 as a character actor roles. In her career spanning around over 25 years she had won a number of accolades including one National Film Award, two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and five Filmfare Award South."
tagline: "Indian actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saranya_Ponvannan_at_Saivam_Audio_Launch.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1970-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.16
  momentum:             2.182042688304816
  historical:           12.16389866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0764853/"
    handle:    "nm0764853"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Saranya Ponvannan"
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    title: "ശരണ്യ പൊൻവണ്ണൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "சரண்யா பொன்வண்ணன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "శరణ్య (నటి)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سارنیا پونوانن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/584504"
    title: "Saranya Ponvannan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump