Endaro Mahanubhavulu is another show anchored by Priya which portrayed the achievements of various famous people in Andhra Pradesh from all walks of life. Similarly, Geethanjali was another music based show anchored by Priya for ETV and ran for a year. Santoor top 10 was a program anchored by Priya which ran for two years in Gemini Channel and she had portrayed different characters in each episode of the show. She has also done in Vani Rani serial in Tamil which aired on Sun TV. She has also done a Hindi serial titled Yehi hai Zindagi. Her serials include Lady Detective, Sangarshana, Pelli Chesukundam & Jwaala for ETV, Dairy of Mrs Sharada & Kotha Bangaaram for Gemini, Maanasa for Maa TV, Vaidehi for Doordarshan, Chinna Kodalu for Zee TV, and Naagamma in Tamil for Sun TV. Later, she has acted in almost all the leading Television channels in Telugu and Tamil. She has acted in serials like Priya Ninu Choodaleka and Priya O Priya. She started her television career with the runaway hit Priya Sakhi in which she portrayed the lead role which had different shades(ranging from the young to the old).It was so popular that she is still identified as 'Priyasakhi' Priya and the name stuck to her. She won the Cine Goers Award and Gemini Ugadi Puraskaram for her portrayal of the character Bhuvaneshwari in Kotha Bangaaram.
She was also the recipient of various awards like the Dasari Cultural Award, Swathi Cultural Award, and Vamsee Berkeley Award. She won Nandi Award presented by the government of Andhra Pradesh very early in her career. Kishore and Priya celebrating Nischay's birthday with family and friends Awards Priya married MVS Kishore in 2002, they have a son Nischay born in 2003. She completed her graduation in Bachelor of Arts. She later started pursuing her acting career. She has done her schooling in Hyderabad, and while in college has won the Miss College Pageant. She is the third among the three sisters. Her parents are Shri Mamilla Venkateswar Rao and Smt Mamilla Kusuma Kumari. Popularly known as Priya, Mamilla Shailaja Priya was born in 1978 in Bapatla town in Andhra Pradesh, India. Apart from soap operas, she has acted in about 60 feature films in Telugu and Hindi with various co stars like Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan, Venkatesh, Nagarjuna and Amitabh Bachchan. She has won the Nandi Award presented by the government of Andhra Pradesh for her role in this serial Priya Sakhi.
She made her acting debut in 1998 with the movie Master which featured 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi. 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 (born 20 May1978), popularly known as Priya, is a Telugu actress.