Soumya Bollapragada

Who is Soumya Bollapragada?

Soumya Bollapragada is an Indian film actress,writer,director and model. She is the niece of actress Gouthami and has acted in Telugu films.

Her father Divakar is an engineer in the merchant Navy, her mother a housewife and she has a younger brother. She graduated from St. Joseph's College for Women. She has studied journalism and dreamt of becoming a journalist. She holds a Bachelor degree in English literature and Psychology from Andhra University. She was one of the six finalists in the Miss South India Contest in which girls from Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and AP had participated. She secured the Ms Photogenic and Ms Perfect 10 rounds in the contest. She had also bagged the Ms. Personality round in the Miss Andhra contest held in Hyderabad in January 2005 and the Miss NIFD organised by the National Institute of Fashion Design in Visakhapatnam in April 2005.

She started with modelling in college and got trained under Koushik Ghosh. She modelled for KPL Coconut Oil ad in Kerala and also acted in Sun Flower shopping mall ad, Anarkali Boutique ad and others.

She is a poet as well who won three international awards in poetry. She also ran a monthly magazine Evoke for three and half years in Vizag.