Living Smile Vidya

Living Smile Vidya
Nationality	India
Occupation	Actor, writer, transgender activist

Living Smile Vidya, or Smiley, is an Indian trans woman actor, assistant director, and writer from Chennai. She was the subject of the award-winning Kannada documentary Naanu Avanalla...Avalu, based on her autobiography of the same name.

She has a postgraduate degree from Vidya holds a postgraduate degree from Tanjavur Tamil University in applied linguistics, and started her career as an electronic data processing assistant.

Her autobiography I Am Vidya was written in Tamil, and translated into seven languages. Writer Monika Kowalska described her book as "regarded as one of the most brilliant transgender memoirs."

She has acted in several short films, including Kandal Pookkal and 500 & 5, and in documentary films Aghrinaigal and Butterfly.

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