Samyuktha Hegde (born 17 July 1998) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Kannada and Tamil films. Hegde made her film debut with the 2016 Kannada film Kirik Party, which earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Kannada. She later participated in Bigg Boss Kannada (2017) and MTV Splitsvilla 11 (2018), and emerged as the first runner-up of the latter show.
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Early and personal life
Hegde was born in Bangalore to a Christian mother and a Hindu Brahmin father. Her native village is Kelaginamane, a place in the Uttara Kannada district. She did her schooling from St. Paul's English School. She discontinued her degree course in BA psychology and journalism in Jain University, Bangalore to continue pursuing dancing and acting.
Since 2019, Hegde has been in a relationship with Chris Sauer, a German national.
Career
In 2016, Hegde was cast as a parallel female lead in Rakshit Shetty's comedy-drama Kirik Party. Impressed by her Facebook profile, the makers called her for an audition that she subsequently cleared. The film received critical acclaim and emerged a major commercial success. Hegde's performance playing the love interest of Shetty's character won praise for Hegde; a reviewer for The Times of India stated that "Samyuktha Hegde, as the bubbly Aarya, has a tough act to follow given the peppy first half and impresses by holding her own in crucial scenes", while The New Indian Express's reviewer felt that Hegde "outshone in the film along with the main character Karna".
In 2016, Hegde appeared as a contestant in the reality television show MTV Roadies. She said that being a part of the show had been her childhood dream. In 2018, Hegde entered MTV Splitsvilla in its eleventh season as a wild card entrant and became the Runner up of the season. In 2019, she made her debut in Tamil film through Comali opposite to Jayam Ravi and Kajal Agarwal. Her role as Nikitha, was praised by all the audiences, though her role was minimum in the film. She learned Tamil language for the film and dubbed on her own. After that she packed more films in Tamil film industries.
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In the Bangalore Times Most Desirable Women list, Hegde was placed 9th in 2017, 13th in 2018 and 21st in 2020.
