Kalyani Priyadarshan

Kalyani was born on 5 April 1993 in Chennai, in a Malayali family to Indian filmmaker Priyadarshan and actress Lissy. She is elder of the two children, and has a younger brother named Siddharth. She completed her early schooling in Lady Andal, Chennai and later studied in Singapore, where she also worked in theatre groups. She pursued architecture from Parsons School of Design, New York. After Kalyani returned to India, she attended an acting workshop in Adishakti Theatre, Pondicherry.