Vanitha is an Indian film actress. She was a prominent lead actress during the 1980s in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu films. She has done nearly 150 films in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu.

Biography

Vanitha is born to Malayali father, Ganeshan and a Tamilian mother, Kamala as the youngest of four children at Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. Her father is from Nilambur whose paternal ancestors originally hails from Tamil Nadu and her mother is from Tamil Nadu. She has two sisters, Mallika and Shobha and a brother, Raghu.

She married Malayalam actor and singer Krishnachandran on May 11, 1986 with whom she had starred in Vanithapolice, Belt Mathai, and Deeparadhana,. The couple have a daughter, named Amritavarshini born in 1990. They currently resides at Thiruvananthapuram.