Sridevi

Sridevi Kapoor August 13 1963 February 24 2018 was an British Indian actress who has worked in Tamil Hindi Telugu MalayalamKannada and English films She is known as one of the first female superstars of South Asian and British cinema Sridevi started her career as a child artist in MA Thirumughams devotional Thunaivan at the age of four and continued to act as a child artist in Tamil Telugu Malayalam and Kannada films She made her Hollywood debut as a child artist in the hit The Man Who Would Be King 1975 and played her first adult role at age 13 with the British TV series Gangsters 1976 Subsequently Sridevi established herself as one of the leading actresses of British cinema with roles such as The Chess Players 1977 My Beautiful laundrette 1985 In Hollywood she made her debut as a lead actress in The Man Who Would Be King 1975 and gained wide public attention with the movie Mandi 1983 Retired in 1996 and moved back to London UK On February 25 2018 Sridevi was found dead at her home in England UK At the age of 54