She later started pursuing her acting career. She has done her schooling in, and while in college has won the Miss College Pageant. She is the third among the three sisters, and is the blue eyed and the most favorite child in the family. Her parents are Shri Mamilla Venkateswar Rao and Smt Mamilla Kusuma Kumari.

Early life and career Popularly known as Priya, Mamilla Shailaja Priya was born in 1978 in town in Andhra Pradesh, India.Apart from soap operas, she has acted in about 60 feature in Telugu and Hindi with various co stars like, and also with the Super Star of Indian Cinema. This followed with a string of soap operas in almost all the leading TV channels in Telugu, in which she has acted in a variety of roles. She has won the prestigious ' presented by the government of for her role in this serial. She came to be known as 'Priya Sakhi' Priya following the huge success of her character in the serial. This serial was a run away hit and was hugely popular among the young and the old alike. In the same year, she has started her television career with the lead role in the serial 'Priya Sakhi' which also happened to be the first mega serial in Gemini channel directed by Vadderaju Lakshmi Sharat and produced by Dr.Vadderaju Sharat Kumar. She made her acting debut in 1998 with the movie 'Master' which featured 'Megastar'. 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 and family Born Shailaja Priya ( ) (age 40), Residence, Other names Priyasakhi Years active 1998-2001 2010-present Spouse(s) MVS kishore (m.2002-present) Children Nischay (b.2003) Mamilla Shailaja Priya (born 20 May1978), popularly known as Priya, is a actress.

Gokulamlo seetha serial cast and crew