Losliya Mariyanesan

Losliya Mariyanesan (; born 23 March 1996) is a Sri Lankan-Indian actress, news reader, television presenter. In 2019, she participated in the reality show Bigg Boss 3 and emerged as the 2nd runner-up.

Biography Losliya was born on 23 March 1996 in Kilinochchi, Northern Province of Sri Lanka in a typical orthodox Tamil Christian family. Both her parents hailed from the Jaffna District.

Career She initially joined the Capital Maharaja Organisation and began working as a television presenter by hosting television programmes which were broadcast in Shakthi TV. She joined Shakthi TV at the age of 18 in around 2015, at a time when she had been waiting for her GCE Advanced Level Examination results to be announced. She spent a duration approximately four years with the production team of Shakthi TV during her initial phase of her career especially when she concentrated in hosting reality shows as an anchor and reading news as a news reader. During her stint at Shakthi TV, she hosted Good Morning Sri Lanka, a morning talk show from 2015 to 2018 and from 2018 to 2019, she plied her trade as a newsreader in News First. In 2019, she quit Shakthi TV and made a decision to enter the Indian Tamil television reality show Bigg Boss and she received the opportunity to enter the Star Vijay's Bigg Boss season 3. It was only in 2019 that she made her maiden visit to the Indian offshore and she revealed within first three months since her arrival to India, she landed a role by getting an offer from the production unit of Bigg Boss to be roped in as one of the contestants of the show. She appeared to have faced an impromptu face-to-face interview before finalising the offer to enter into the Bigg Boss house. She also gained sympathy from the audience, especially considering the fact that she hailed from the minority Tamil community in Sri Lanka which faced the brunt of the Sri Lankan civil war and she was also praised for her pleasant positive attitude which she displayed throughout the season. However, she also received criticism and bashing from a set of audience after having developed a romantic interest with her fellow contestant Kavin, which also eventually prompted skyrocketing television rating points of Star Vijay and Bigg Boss show. Prior to her participation in the Bigg Boss contest in 2019, she was largely unknown in mainstream media in the context of Tamil Nadu, as she was a known face only in Sri Lanka among the Sri Lankan audience. In 2020, she acted in a television commercial advertisement alongside Ashwin Kumar Lakshmikanthan for the marketing purposes by promoting Blesso branded beauty soap which was a flagship brand of the Aachi Group.

It was after her breakthrough season in Bigg Boss, that she garnered several film acting offers. She revealed that her lack of camera fear through the routine work of being a television host and news reader during the early phase of her career had eventually helped her to ease the burden and pressure of acting in big budgeted films, especially when she got the film acting offers one after the other in the pipeline. She made her film acting debut with John Paul Raj and Sham Surya's joint collaborative directorial venture Friendship (2021), a remake of the Malayalam-language film Queen, where she shared screenspace with the likes of former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh and Arjun. She was signed on to play the lead role opposite Harbhajan Singh in Friendship. Her second film appearance came in Koogle Kuttappa (2022), where she played one of the main leads and shared screenspace with K. S. Ravikumar and fellow Sri Lankan actor Tharshan and it was a remake of the Malayalam-language film Android Kunjappan Version 5.25. Her third film appearance came in Mr. Housekeeping (2025), where she was cast in the lead role opposite Hari Bhaskar.

Filmography

Films + Year Title Role Notes 2021 Friendship Anitha 2022 Koogle Kuttappa Tharani 2025 Mr. Housekeeping Isai GentlewomanAnna

Television + Year Title Role Channel Notes 2015-2018 Good Morning Sri Lanka Newsreader Shakthi TV 2018-2019 News First Newsreader News First 2019 Bigg Boss season 3 Contestant Star Vijay 2nd runner-up 2025 Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 8 Guest Star Vijay As part of Mr. Housekeeping promotions

Music videos + Year Title Music Vocals Notes 2022 "Baby Nee Sugar" Osho VenkatOsho Venkat