Who Is Ann Alexia Anra, The Girl Who Played Rinku In Hera Pheri

Famous for her role as Rinku in the 2000 comedy film Hera Pheri, child actor Ann Alexia Anra has all grown up and is an entrepreneur who works in the environment sector. The famous film Hera Pheri is one of the best timeless humour movies which is still the subject of memes after more than 20 years of its release.

The story of the film revolved around a little girl who gets kidnapped and an array of madness takes place throughout the film. Anra played the role of the girl who was abducted. Now, she calls herself an ex-actor and works as a sustainability consultant.

When the pandemic locked everyone inside their houses, people started watching classic movies like Hera Pheri and many of them got curious about the little girl in it. As the timeless comedy film Hera Pheri has completed more than 20 years, here's all that you need to know about Ann Alexia Anra, the girl who played Rinku.

- Ann Alexia Anra is based in Chennai.

- Anra works as a sustainability consultant and has taken environmental initiatives like "Take Me Back Chennai" and "Wasted 360 Solutions".

- She made her debut in the film industry with the 1996 Tamil film Avvai Shanmugi in which she shared the screen with Kamal Haasan.

- The ex-actor is best known for her role of Rinku in the 2000 comedy film Hera Pheri starring Akshay Kumar.

- Anra had been modelling since she was 3 years old and was in the film industry until 12 years of age.

- Her parents actually did not wast Anra to act in films. They were fine with her working in ads, but as films take a lot of time, they were a little hesitant about it.

- Anra got to do Hera Pheri because it was shot during Summer vacations, but after this film, her parents did not let her do any other film.

- Apart from Hera Pheri and Avvai Shanmugi, Anra appeared in two more films Thaayin Manikodi (Tamil) with Tabu and Mithun Chakraborty's Hathyara (Hindi) in a cameo role.

- Anra received a French Government Scholarship for which she went to France to study, and completed her undergraduate in BBA.

- She then came back to India to work in an ad agency and also worked in a software company for about 5 years.

- The ex-actor also wrote in the magazine "Southside" and participated in the 2007 Miss Chennai pageant at the insistence of her mom.

- Anra has an entrepreneur bug inside her so she started a number of small businesses. She started her own waste management company called "Waste Solutions" after quitting her job about 2-3 years ago.

- Her company works in low-value waste materials like beverage cartons, tetra packs and cigarette waste. She also started an apple business called "Original Sin".

- In her previous job, Anra used to make videos for the Tamil Nadu Police department about what the cops do for our society and their different departments and the special task force.

- Anra has no plan of coming back to the acting industry. She sometimes gets calls for ads that she does, but she feels that she was better as an actor when she was a kid and does not want to make an effort to come back.