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Living Smile Vidya, or Smiley, is an Indian trans woman actor, assistant director, and writer from Chennai. She was the subject of the award-winning Kannada documentary Naanu Avanalla...Avalu, based on her autobiography of the same name.
Vidya holds a postgraduate degree from Tanjavur Tamil University in applied linguistics, and started her career as an electronic data processing assistant.
Her autobiography I Am Vidya was written in Tamil, and translated into seven languages.
She has acted in several short films, including Kandal Pookkal and 500 & 5, and in documentary films Aghrinaigal and Butterfly.
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