Her parents are Shri Mamilla Venkateswar Rao and Smt Mamilla Kusuma Kumari. Popularly known as Priya, Mamilla Shailaja Priya was born in 1978 in Bapatla town in Andhra Pradesh, India. 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 has won the Nandi Award presented by the government of Andhra Pradesh for her role in this serial Priya Sakhi. She made her acting debut in 1998 with the movie Master which featured 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi. She appears primarily in Telugu feature films and television soap operas and has also acted in other languages like Hindi and Tamil. Mamilla Shailaja Priya (born 20 May1978), popularly known as Priya, is a Telugu actress.
