Vinaya Prasad (also credited as Vinaya Prakash), born as Vinaya Bhat, is a popular film and television actress in South India who has primarily featured in Kannada and Malayalam films and TV series besides acting in Tamil and Telugu language films. She has won the State Best Actress Award for her performances in Aathanka (1993) and Bannada Hejje (2001). The senior actress in her career has shared screen space with Vishnuvardhan, Ananth Nag, Chiranjeevi, Rajinikanth, Mohanlal, Ambareesh, Venkatesh, Akkineni Nagarjuna, V. Ravichandran, Shivrajkumar, Mahesh Babu, N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and others.
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