Meghana Gaonkar
Meghana Gaonkar (ಮೇಘನ ಗಾವ್ನ್ಕರ್; born 8 May) is an Indian actress working in Kannada cinema. She made her acting debut in 2010, with the film Nam Areali Ondina.
Early life
Meghana Gaonkar born in Gulbarga, a town in north Karnataka where her mother hails from. She did her schooling from Sharanbasaveshwara residential school in Gulbarga and later completed her Bachelors in commerce degree from Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College, Bangalore. She obtained her master's degree English literature from Bangalore University and a diploma in film acting and making from Adarsha Film & TV Institute, Bangalore.
Career
As an evidence to her acting instincts she was crowned as Miss Garden City Bangalore and Miss Beautiful Smile in 2003 and thereon she started her career by hosting a series of popular shows in most of the Kannada channels and gained herself a huge popularity and fan following from shows like Kuniyona Baara, Star Dish Dishum, Preethiya Kannadiga, etc.
Meghana Gaonkar is well known for her dancing skills in the sandalwood industry for her dances like bharatnatyam, kathak and most of the western forms, apart from being a talented, beautiful, cultured and educated artist. She has been knowingly or unknowingly acquiring all the required traits and talent before she launched herself into the sandalwood arena, as an assistant instructor for over seven years with Shiamak Davar’s Dance Company, she has trained hundreds of dancers and has also performed major dance shows with the core troupe in India and Abroad. She has always been proud of performing in the closing ceremony of commonwealth games in Melbourne, Australia in 2006. Meghana Gaonkar also plays the veena, piano and bit of violin.
