Mamilla Shailaja Priya

Her other films include Taamboolalu, Pedda Manushulu, Maa Vidaakulu, Greeku Veerudu, Sakutumba Saparivara Samethamga, Velugu Needalu, Dongaata, Chiru Navvutho, Harishchandra, Madhuri, Manavudu Danavudu, Sambhavam and Kathi Kantha Rao. In 2012 she appeared in Akkineni Nagarjuna's most acclaimed Dhamarukam. She played Richa Gangopadhyay's mother in Prabhas's MIrchi. She acted in Iddarammayilatho as mother of Catherine Tresa.

Priya married MVS Kishore in 2002, they have a son Nischay born in 2003. They reside in Hyderabad.

She made her acting debut in 1998 with the movie Master which featured Chiranjeevi. She has won the Nandi Award presented by the government of Andhra Pradesh for her role in this serial Priya Sakhi. Apart from soap operas, she has acted in about 60 feature films in Telugu and Hindi with various co stars like Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan, Venkatesh, Nagarjuna and Amitabh Bachchan.

She started her acting career with Chiranjeevi's starrer, Master in 1997.

Mamilla Shailaja Priya (born 20 May 1978), popularly known as Priya, is a Telugu actress. She appears primarily in Telugu feature films and television soap operas and has also acted in other languages like Hindi and Tamil.

Popularly known as Priya, Mamilla Shailaja Priya was born in 1978 in Bapatla town in Andhra Pradesh, India. Her parents are Sri Mamilla Venkateswar Rao and Smt Mamilla Kusuma Kumari. She is the third among the three sisters. She has done her schooling in Hyderabad, and while in college has won the Miss College Pageant. She later started pursuing her acting career. She completed her graduation in Bachelor of Arts.