Gayathri Raghuram

Gayathri Raguram
Born	23 April 1983 Chennai
Occupation	Choreography
Years active	2002–present

Gayathri Raghuram is the daughter of noted film choreographer dancer Raghuram. She began acting in the 2002 film Charlie Chaplin and later started working as a choreographer in films. She is a contestant in the first season of Bigg Boss Tamil.

Gayathri Raghuram started acting at 14. She has said that she never dreamt that she would be an actress but that offers kept pouring in. She had insisted on being known by her full name to avoid confusion with another actress, Gayatri Jayaraman, who was also active in the period.

Her debut film was with actor Prabhu Deva whom she shared her experience Charlie Chaplin (2002), which was followed by a serial each in Kannada (Manasella Neene), Tamil (Style) and Malayalam (Nakshathrakkannulla Rajakumaran Avanundoru Rajakumari). Subsequently, she quit films to relocate to the USA.

She returned in 2008 as a choreographer with films like Jayam Kondaan (2008) and Poi Solla Porom (2008) and has since worked in big budget productions including Osthe (2011), Alex Pandian (2013), Anjaan (2014) and Muthuramalingam (2017). Her work in the satire Tamil Padam was well received. By 2014, she had choreographed around 100 films.

Gayathri was born to dance choreographers Raghuram and Girija Raghuram. Her elder sister Suja is also a prominent dancer and actress. She is the great grand daughter of director Krishnaswami Subrahmanyam. Girija is the elder sister of another choreographer, Kala. Gayathri got married to Deepak Chandrasekhar who is working in United States of America in 2006. Later the couple filed for divorce in 2009.

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