Pooja Hegde (born 13 October 1990) is an Indian actress and model who appears predominantly in Telugu and Hindi films. She was crowned as the second runner-up at the Miss Universe India 2010 competition. She made her debut in Tamil film Mysskin's Mugamoodi (2012). She made her Telugu film debut alongside Naga Chaitanya in Oka Laila Kosam. In 2016, she made her Hindi film debut alongside Hrithik Roshan in Ashutosh Gowarikar's Mohenjo Daro.She then went onto to play the lead in successful films such as Mukunda (2014), Duvvada Jagannadham (2017), Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava (2018), Maharishi (2019), Gaddalakonda Ganesh (2019), Housefull 4 (2019) and Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (2020).Pooja Hegde was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra in a Tulu-speaking Bunt[3] family. Her parents Manjunath Hegde and Latha Hegde. They are originally from Udupi, Karnataka.She also has an elder brother Rishabh Hegde, who is an orthopaedic surgeon. She is fluent in Kannada, English, Hindi, Tulu and Tamil.
