Jayalalithaa Jayaram (Tamil: ஜெயலலிதா ஜெயராம்) normally referred to as J. Jayalalitha, is the current Chief Minister of the state of Tamil Nadu for Three times, India. She is the incumbent general secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), a Dravidian party after the famous Political leader and an actor Makal Thilagam M.G.Ramachandran also Called MGR death. She is called Amma and Puratchi Thalaivi by her followers. She was a film actor in Tamil and Telugu cinema before entering politics.
She was born on 24th February 1948 in Mysore, Karnataka and was named as Komalavalli in a Tamil Iyengar family. She is a native of Srirangam, Trichy. Her father Jeyaram died when she was 2 years old. She had her formal education at the Bishop Cotton Girls' High School in Bangalore. She later moved to Madras State (now Tamil Nadu) along with her mother Sandhya, who ventured as an actress into Tamil cinema. She was then schooled at Sacred Heart Matriculation School in Chennai. She excelled in academics and has claimed that she was offered a scholarship for higher studies from the Government of India but she entered film industry, under the guidance of her mother.
