Nivedhitha

Niveditha, formerly known and credited as Smitha, is an Indian film actress, who predominantly appears in Kannada films. She attracted notable attention with her performance in the film Avva that fetched her the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Early life

Her father Jagadish worked as a deputy commissioner of commercial taxes, her mother Lakshmi is a housewife. She did her schooling in chikmagalur; later she studied at the Marimallappa High School and completed her PUC at the Marimallappa Pre-University College in Mysore, both part of Marimallappa’s Educational Institutions. As a student, Smitha, who described herself as a tomboy, was also an NCC cadet. After graduating as an engineering student from the CMRIT College, Bangalore, she went on to work at the software company Infosys for a year. She quit the job to pursue an acting career; when she was offered a role, she first joined actor Anupam Kher's acting school, Actor Prepares and took a crash course.