Doe-eyed beauty Maadhavi was born in the city of Hyderabad, state of Andhra Pradesh. She started dancing from the time she was eight years old. Maadhavi was a well known Bharat Natyam dancer and has given more than a thousand performances. While still in eighth grade at Stanley Girls High School Hyderabad, she was discovered by ace Telugu film director Dasari Narayan Rao who cast her as a leading lady in his first movie Thoorpu Padamara, which was a huge success. From then on this talented actress never looked back. Though she started her career in telugu, because of her talent and flair for languages she went on to act in seven languages: Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Oriya, Bengali and Malayalam. She acted with famous starts like Sivaji Ganesan, Rajnikant, Mammoty, Mohan Lal, Rajkumar, Chiranjeevi and Ranjit Malik, Kamal Hassan, Vishnu Vardan, Ambrish and Mohanbabu. Maadhavi was also cast by great film directors such as Hariharan, K.Vishwanath, K.Balachander, Raghavender Rao, Padmarajan, Bharatan, Bharathi Raja, Dorai Bhagawan and others. She has won innumerable state awards as best actress. She also has to her credit a number of Silver, Golden and Platinum Jubilees of her movies. In her Seventeen year career she has acted in more than three hundred movies and is a respected and accomplished actress of all language films of India.