Shraddha Srinath is an Indian film actress who predominantly appears in Kannada and Tamil films. She has also appeared in a number of Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam films. She gained wide acclaim for her role in the Kannada psychological thriller U Turn (2016) for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress and also for her performances in Jersey, Urvi, Vikram Vedha , Nerkonda Paarvai and Operation Alamelamma. For the latter, she won Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics) – Kannada award. She won the Zee Cine Award Telugu 2020 as the Best find of the year - female.
Shraddha was born in the Command Hospital in the town of Udhampur, Jammu & Kashmir. Her father was an officer in the Kumaon Regiment of the Indian Army and her mother was a school teacher. Her family hails from Karnataka, and their mother tongue is Kannada. She was raised all over India and lived in the towns of Suratgarh (Rajasthan), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Dharchula (Uttarakhand) Belgaum (Karnataka), Silchar (Assam), and Secunderabad (Telangana). After graduating from 12th from Army School Secunderabad, she moved to Bangalore to study Law at the Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies.