
Kovai Sarala is an Indian Film actress and Comedian, who prominently plays supporting roles in Tamil and Telugu films. In a career spanning 25 years, Sarala has appeared in over 750 films. She has won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Comedian and the Nandi Award for Best Female Comedian for her performances in Poovellam Un Vasam (2001), and Ori Nee Prema Bangaram Kanu (2003), respectively.
She got her first film offer when she was in the 9th standard and acted with Vijayakumar and K. R. Vijaya in the film Velli Ratham. She was in Class 10, when she played a 32-year-old pregnant woman Mundhanai Mudichu, her second film. Two years later she acted in Chinna Veedu, where she played the role of the 65-year-old mother of Bhagyaraj's character. She has appeared in more than a 100 films in Telugu. She has mentioned the films Sathi Leelavathi, Viralukketha Veekkam, Varavu Ettana Selavu Pathana, Karagattakaran and Viswanathan Ramamoorthy as her personal favourites.

Family
1996

Evaraina Epudaina
2009 · as Nurse

Arya Surya
2013 · as Chandralekha

Champion
2025

Michaelpatty Raja
as Mom

Pathavi Pramanam
1994

Mama Bagunnava
1997

Ela Cheppanu
2003

Kaadhal Parisu
1987

Neninthe
2008 · as Urmila

Pournami Nagam
2010

Piriyadha Varam Vendum
2001 · as Kananthaa

Iddaru Attala Muddula Alludu
2006 · as Sarala

Machan
2016

Thenpandi Seemaiyile
1988

Aadivaram Adavallaku Selavu
2007

Vasantha Vaasal
1996

Sathi Leelavathi
1995 · as Palaniammal Sakthivel Gounder