Sindhu Menon is an Indian film starlet, who has mainly starred in Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil movies. She debuted as a child artist in the 1994 Kannada film Rashmi. Sindhu Menon was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India into a Malayali family. She has one younger brother, Karthik, who worked as a Kannada music channel IVJ and turned actor, recently.
Sindhu Menon, a trained Bharathanatyam dancer from her childhood, got her entry into the film industry when Bhasker Hegde, one of the judges of a Bharatanatyam competition in which Menon participated and emerged as the winner, introduced her to Kannada film director K. V. Jayaram, who cast her in his film Rashmi in 1994.
She has got several offers to act and became a full-time actress, by enacting the female lead role character in the 1999 film Prema Prema Prema, when she was merely 13 years old. Menon married Dominic Prabhu, a UK-based Telugu Christian information technology professional in April 2010. The couple has a daughter, Svetlana.
Menon then moved to the "small screen", hosting TV shows and acting in serials, which include "Sriman Srimathi" and "Stree Hrudayam", before accepting film offers again. In 2009, she appeared in the Malayalam films, Bharya Onnu Makkal Moonnu, and Rahasya Police. She also acted in the Tamil film Eeram, produced by popular Tamil director S. Shankar.
