Hemashree
{{Short description|Indian actress}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Hemashree
| image =
| image_size =
| caption = Hemashree in the film Appu
| birth_name = Hemashree Hosahalli Nagaraju
| birth_date = 1982
| birth_place = Tumkur, Karnataka, India
| death_date = 9 {{Death year and age|2012|1982|10}}
| death_place = Bangalore, India
| nationality = Indian
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 2001–2012
| spouse = {{marriage|R. Surendra Babu|2011}}
| party = Bahujan Samaj Party
}}
Hemashree Hosahalli Nagaraju (1982 – 9 October 2012) was an Indian actress who worked in Kannada television soap operas. A struggling actress, she had also appeared in a handful of Kannada films in supporting roles. At the 2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections, she contested with a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket for her home town Chikkanayakana Halli in the Tumkur region of Karnataka.{{cite web|title=Affidavit Details of Hemashree H N|url=http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/preview.aspx?candid=52875&cid=128|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924045613/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/preview.aspx?candid=52875&cid=128|url-status=usurped|archive-date=24 September 2015|publisher=empoweringindia.org|accessdate=27 August 2015}}{{cite news|last1=Johnson |first1=T. A.|title=Kannada actress Hemashree: Unhappy life, unexplained death|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/kannada-actress-hemashree-unhappy-life-unexplained-death/1020565/0|accessdate=27 August 2015|work=The Indian Express|date=23 October 2012}} She died of mysterious circumstances in October 2012, and her husband Surendra Babu was alleged to have murdered her.
Career
Hemashree made her debut as an actress in 2001, as a 19-year-old, in a Kannada television soap opera. She trained at the Adarsha Film and T. V. Institute, Bangalore. In the following years, she worked in soaps such as Danda Pindagalu, Saahasa Lakshmiyaru and others made by S. Narayan. She appeared in minor roles in films, Varsha and Sirivantha (2006).{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
Personal life
Hemashree was married to R. Surendra Babu, an advocate and a realtor, on 22 June 2011. She was coerced to marry him by her mother, who ha received a dowry of {{INR}}50 lakh from Babu, who was 48 at the time. The followed day, she registered a complaint with the Bangalore City Police over the matter and sought police protection fearing that Babu could harm her.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} It was also revealed that her "allegedly greedy family" forced her into politics. The couple lived in the Banashankari neighbourhood of Bangalore.{{cite web|title=Kannada TV Actor Hemashree (38) Dies, Husband Detained|url=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=152120|publisher=daijiworld.com|accessdate=27 August 2015}}
Partial filmography
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|+ Movies |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title |
|---|
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2002
| Appu |
| Marma |
| scope="row" | 2005
| Varsha |
| scope="row" | 2006 |
| scope="row" | 2008
| Ugragami |
| scope="row" | 2009
| Cinema Alla Real Story |
| scope="row" | 2010 |
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|+ TV shows |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |
|---|
| {{Unknown}}
| |
| scope="row" | 2002
| |
| {{Unknown}}
| Mahamayi | |
| {{Unknown}}
| Tulasi | |
| scope="row" | 2004
| |
| {{Unknown}}
| Vatara |
References
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Category:Indian television actresses
Category:Actresses in Kannada cinema
Category:Indian film actresses
Category:Date of birth missing
Category:21st-century Indian actresses