Poornima Bhagyaraj
- Birthday: 18. July 1962
- Birthplace: Kerala, India
- Awards: 1982 - Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil for Payanangal Mudivathillai, 1982 - Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Malayalam for Olangal, 1980 - Best Actress for Manjil Virinja Pookkal
Biography
Poornima Jayaram is an Indian film actress of Malayalam and Tamil films. She also did few Hindi and Telugu films. She was top leading actress from 1980 to 1985. Her On-screen pairing with Shankar in Malayalam and Mohan in Tamil was a mega hit.
She is married to Tamil director, actor, producer and script-writer K. Bhagyaraj on February 7, 1984 and has a daughter Saranya and a son Shantanu. She has quit voluntarily in acting films in 1984 prior to her marriage with actor K. Bhagyaraj. However, she made a comeback movie as an mother's role in Aadhalal Kadhal Seiveer in 2013.