Kiruthiha Kulendiren is the mother of Canadian actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. Maitreyi is best known for playing the title character Devi Vishwakumar in the Netflix teen comedy series Never Have I Ever (2020–present).
Maitreyi started her professional acting debut in the Netflix adolescent comedy series Never Have I Ever as the lead character Devi Vishwakumar.
Out of the 15,000 applicants who applied for an open casting call for the program in 2019, she was picked by Mindy Kaling. Using her mother’s camera, she made her audition film in the local library.
She was later asked to send four more videos, and after a screen test in Los Angeles, she was given the job. When she was cast, she was 17 and had no previous experience in professional acting.
Quick Facts:
| Full Name | Kiruthiha Kulendiren |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Husband | Ram Selvarajah |
| Daughter | Maitreyi Ramakrishan (b. 2001) |
| Son | Vishwaa Ramakrishan |
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan’s Mother: Who Is Kiruthiha Kulendiren?
The actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan’s mother is Kiruthiha Kulendiren. Vishwaa Ramakrishnan is another child that she has.
Under the username @kirukulendiren, she handles a Twitter account. She has 562 followers with 3,627 tweets on her Twitter account.
She is married to Ram Selvarajah. He has a Twitter account under the name @RSelvarajah. He has 376 tweets on his Twitter account.
Her daughter chose to pursue an acting career during her senior year at Meadowvale, and less than a year later she was cast in the Netflix adolescent comedy series Never Have I Ever.
She postponed enrolling in York University’s theatrical department in Toronto, which she had originally intended to do in the fall after graduating from high school, so she could film the series in Los Angeles.
She again delayed her admission in 2021, and she also changed her degree to human rights and equity studies.
Where Is Kiruthiha Kulendiren Now?
Kiruthiha Kulendiren was forced to migrate with her family to Canada due to the violence and civil war in Sri Lanka against Tamil citizens.
The nationality of Kulendiren is Canadian. She is also of Tamil heritage in terms of ethnicity.
Maitreyi is also proud of her mother’s Tamil origin and chooses to identify as Tamil rather than Sri Lankan.
As her homeland is Canada but her culture is Tamil, she made it plain to her publicist and agency how vital it is for her to be a Tamil Canadian.
Kiruthiha Kulendiren Age: How Old Is She?
Kiruthiha Kulendiren has not disclosed her exact age on the Internet. She appears to be in her 40s based on her pictures.
Kulendiren hasn’t made her birthdate publicly available online. Her daughter was born on December 28, 2001, and is now 20 years old.
She received her diploma from Meadowvale Secondary School. Ramakrishnan’s height is 5 feet 6 inches tall and her weight 50Kg.
She teamed Madelyn Cline, Joshua Bassett, Michael Evans Behling, Coco Gauff, and Mxmtoon as brand ambassadors for American Eagle’s “Member’s Always: Future Together” campaign in March 2022.