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Lakshmi was born and raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to veteran Telugu film maker Yaragudipati Varada Rao of Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, whose films dealt with important social issues. Her mother Kumari Rukmini was a Tamil actress, whose mother Nungambakkam Janaki was also an actress.

Lakshmi was nine when she started acting in films. Her first film was Sri Valli, a Tamil film released in 1961. She played the role of young Valli in the movie.

She established herself as a successful and popular actress in South India in the 1970s, acting in all four South Indian languages: Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada. Lakshmi rose to fame with her first Malayalam movie Chattakari(1974), which won her the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress. The movie Chattakari has the distinction of being the first Malayalam film to run continuously for 40 weeks in a Bangalore theatre. Chattakari(1974) was remade in Hindi as Julie (1975) and in Telugu as Miss Julie Prema Katha (1975). In addition to a Filmfare Best Actress Award, she also won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for the "most outstanding work of the year", for her work in Julie. She is known for her versatility as an actress and for the glamorous outlook she embodied. Her acting in the Telugu film Panthulamma is often credited as one of her best performances.

After the success of her debut Malayalam film Chattakari, she starred in many other films in Malayalam. She won Filmfare Awards for Best Actress for her performance in Chalanum and Mohiniyottam. She has acted in many successful films where she was paired opposite "Nithya Haritha Nayakan" (Evergreen Hero) Prem Nazir, Dr. Rajkumar, Mohan Sharma, M.G. Soman, Kamal Hassan, Mammooty and Mohanlal to name a few.

She has acted with almost all the leading actors and stars of South India, but it was her combination with the popular actor Anant Nag in the 70s and 80s that struck a chord with the audience. Ananth Nag and Lakshmi are considered one of the all-time greatest pairs in South Indian cinema. They acted together in more than 25 films. Their pair was considered the right recipe for success. Most of the films based on TaRaSu novels were based on the life of young middle class couples.

After her success in Julie, however, she didn't star in many Hindi films and instead concentrated on doing more South Indian films. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal (1977), becoming one of the first South Indian actresses to win that category for a Tamil film. When her career as a leading lady ended in the 1980s, she started playing supporting roles as a mother and later as grandmother. She played Aishwarya Rai's grandmother in Jeans (1998) and Kareena Kapoor's grandmother in Hulchul (2004). She has performed in more than 400 films and has also been involved in politics. Under K. Balachander's supervision, she made her directorial debut with a remake of Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film); the Kannada film Makkala Sainya (Tamil version Mazhalai Pattalam (1980))

Lakshmi took a break from acting to host two talk shows, including the Tamil talk show Achamillai, Achamillai. After the talk shows ended, she returned to act in films. She is fluent in all four South Indian languages. She hosted a talk show in Kannada for Suvarna channel called Idu Kathe Alla Jeevana. She also hosts a talk show in Tamil for Vijay TV called Kadhai Alla Nijam. She has hosted a talk show in Kannada for Suvarna channel called Neena? Naana?

Currently she is one among the Judge Panel for the Malayalam reality show Champions on Surya TV. She is also a judge for a Kannada reality show called Drama juniors on Zee Kannada.

Lakshmi was married thrice. Her first marriage was to Bhaskar in 1969, a Malayali, who worked with an insurance company and the couple have a daughter, Aishwarya, who was born in 1971. Later, she married Mohan Sharma in 1975, which also ended up in divorce in 1980. She was long associated with Kannada actor Ananth Nag in the 1980s.

While she was shooting En Uyir Kannamma, She and actor-director K.S. Sivachandran fell in love and got married in 1989. Lakshmi adopted a baby girl in 2000 and named her Samyuktha.^[9]

National Film Awards

• 1977 – National Film Award for Best Actress for Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal

Filmfare Awards

• 1976 – Filmfare Award for Best Actress for Julie^[10]

Filmfare Awards South

Won

• 1974 – Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress for Dikkatra Parvathi^[10]
• 1974 – Filmfare Award for Best Malayalam Actress for Chattakari^[10]
• 1975 – Filmfare Award for Best Malayalam Actress for Chalanum^[10]
• 1976 – Filmfare Award for Best Malayalam Actress for Mohiniyaattam (film)^[10]
• 1983 – Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress for Unmaigal
• 1986 – Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actress for Sravana Meghalu
• 1993 – Filmfare Award for Best Kannada Actress for Hoovu Hannu
• 1998 – Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award (South)

Nandi Awards

• Nandi Award for Best Actress - Panthulamma (1977)
• Nandi Award for Best Actress - Sravana Meghalu (1986)
• Nandi Award for Best Character Actress - Murari (2001)

Karnataka State Film Awards

• 1993 – Best Actress for Hoovu Hannu
• 2008 – Best Supporting Actress for Vamshi

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

• 1978 – Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress for Oru Nadigai Naatakam Paarkiraal

Kerala State Film Awards

• 1974 – Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress for Chattakari

Bengal Film Journalists Association Awards

• 1975 - Most outstanding work of the year for Julie^[11]

In order of languages in which she acted in the most to least number of films.

Tamil

Malayalam

Kannada

Telugu

Hindi