Annie (actress)

Annie
Born	Annie Jobbie Palai, Kerala, India
Other names	Chitra
Occupation	Actress, Host
Years active	1993–1996 (Actress) 2015-Present (TV Anchor)
Spouse(s)	Shaji Kailas(1996-present)
Parent(s)	Varghese, Anna

Chitra Shaji Kailas, popularly known as Annie is an Indian film actress. Her career spanned a total of three years with sixteen films in Malayalam cinema.

Her debut role was in Balachandra Menon's Ammayane Sathyam (1993). Her well known films include Mazhayethum Munpe (1995), Parvathy Parinayam (1995), Tom & Jerry (1995), Puthukkottayile Puthumanavalan (1995), and Swapna Lokathe Balabhaskaran (1996). She won Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Malayalam for her role in Mazhayethum Munpe.^[1]

Personal life

She hails from a Christian family in Palai and brought up at Thiruvalla Kerala. Her mother died when she was at grade 8. She has three sisters.^[2] She gave up acting after getting married to director Shaji Kailas on 1996 by converting to Hinduism and adopted name Chithra. They have three children Jagannathan, Sharon and Roshan, and are now settled in Thiruvananthapuram. In August 2015 she started hosting a show Annie's kitchen in Amrita TV. Her last movie before marriage was Mookkilla Rajyathu Murimookkan Rajavu 1996.

Filmography

No:	Film	Year	Character	Co-stars	Director
1	Kireedamillatha Rajakkanmar ( കിരീടമില്ലാത്ത രാജാക്കൻമാർ )	1996	Nancy & Bincy	Jagatheesh, Prem Kumar, Innocent, Silk Smitha	Ansar Kalabhavan
2	Mookkilla Rajyathu Murimookkan Rajavu ( മൂക്കില്ലാ രാജ്യത്തു് മുറിമൂക്കൻ രാജാവു് )	1996	Ancy, Bincy	Manoj K Jayan, Jagathi Sreekumar, Prem Kumar, Rajan P. Dev, Saikumar	Sasi Mohan
3	Mr. Clean	1996	Nandini Thampi	Sreenivasan, Mukesh, Devayani, Rajan P. Dev	Vinayan
4	Swapna Lokathe Balabhaskaran ( സ്വപ്നലോകത്തെ ബാലഭാസ്ക്കരൻ )	1996	Chandrika	Jayaram, Dileep, Janardanan, Indrans	Rajasenan
5	Sakshyam ( സാക്ഷ്യം )	1995	Daisey	Suresh Gopi, Murali, Gauthami, Manju Warrier	Mohan
6	Puthukottyile Puthu Manavalan ( പുതുക്കോട്ടയിലെ പുതുമണവാളൻ )	1995	Geethu	Jayaram, Prem Kumar, Innocent, Rajan P. Dev, Jagathi Sreekumar, Janardanan	Rafi Mecartin
7	Indian Military Intelligence	1995	Song appearance	Murali, Ganesan, Sukumaran, M. G. Soman, Babu Antony, Manjula Vijayakumar	T.S. Suresh Babu
8	Tom & Jerry	1995	Meenakshi	Mukesh, Jagadeesh, Janardanan, Rajan P. Dev, Narendra Prasad, Jagathi Sreekumar	Kaladharan
9	Kalyanji Anandji ( കല്യാൺജി ആനന്ദ്‌ജി )	1995	Nirmala, Shivagami	Mukesh, Harisree Ashokan, Narendra Prasad, Indrans, Cochin Haneefa, Sukumari	Balu Kiriyath
10	Mazhavilkoodaram ( മഴവിൽക്കൂടാരം )	1995	Binu	Rahman, Rajan P. Dev, Mamukoya, Indrans, Mala Aravindan	Siddique Shameer
11	Parvathy Parinayam ( പാർവതി പരിണയം )	1995	Parvathi	Mukesh, Prem Kumar, Janardanan, Harisree Ashokan	P. G. Viswambharan
12	Alancheri Thamprakkal ( ആലഞ്ചേരി തമ്പ്രാക്കൾ )	1995	Meera/Lekha Varma	Dileep, Rajan P Dev, Nedumudi Venu, Narendra Prasad, Harisree Ashokan	Sunil
13	Mazhayethum Munpe ( മഴയെത്തും മുമ്പേ )	1995	Shruthi	Mammootty, Shobhana, Sreenivasan, Sankaradi, N. F. Varghese	Kamal
14	Aksharam ( അക്ഷരം )	1995	Meenakshi	Suresh Gopi, Madhavi, Narendra Prasad, Jagathi Sreekumar, N. F. Varghese	Sibi Malayil
15	Rudraksham ( രുദ്രാക്ഷം )	1994	Gouri	Suresh Gopi, Geetha, Vijayaraghavan, Devan	Shaji Kailas
16	Ammayane Sathyam ( അമ്മയാണേ സത്യം )	1993	Parvathi / Thomas	Mukesh, Balachandra Menon, Jagathi Sreekumar, Thilakan, Narendra Prasad	Balachandra Menon

Television

No:	Year	Program	Role	Channel	Notes
1	2015-Present	Annie's kitchen	Host	Amrita TV	Won,Vayalar awards 2016 - Best Television Host

References

1. "Filmfare Awards". www.filmfare.com. Archived from the original on November 1996.
2. "അടുക്കള തന്നെ അരങ്ങ്‌". mangalamvarika.com. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

External links

• Annie at the Internet Movie Database