Yuvina Parthavi

Born into a Telugu family in Chennai,^[1] Yuvina was introduced as a child actress in AVM Productions Tamil-language television serial Uravukku Kai Koduppom (2011) by director Bhuvanesh, who met Yuvina and her father Mahesh while on a tour. Her performance in the serial received acclaim, with producer M. Saravanan noting the success of the serial had "a lot to do with" Yuvina.^[2]

In 2013, she started appearing in Tamil films and her role as Nassar's granddaughter in Veeram, where she featured in scenes alongside Ajith Kumar was well received by critics.^[3] Subsequently, she was signed on to appear in roles in Linguswamy's production Manjapai where she played a young girl who bonds with an elderly man, as well as in a one scene appearance in AR Murugadoss's Kaththi, playing a girl at the airport cared for by Samantha Ruth Prabhu.^[3] The same year, she also played a full-length role in Athithi as a kidnapped child, as well as a pivotal role in Arjun's action drama film Jaihind 2, a multilingual film which marked her Kannada debut.^[3] She also starred in other Kannada films such as Mummy – Save Me (2016) and Pushpaka Vimana (2017) as Ramesh Aravind's and Priyanka Upendra's daughter, respectively.^[4][5]