Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- An effervescent screen presence, an easy charm and unique anchoring style sets apart Pearle Maaney from her contemporaries.
- Making an impact amongst the television watching malayalee audience as the curly haired, bubbly host of the dance reality show D for Dance on Mazhavil Manorama, Pearle Maaney couldn’t have asked for a better leg up for her silver screen career.
- From VJ to modelling to hosting television shows to acting in Malayalam movies, this young beauty has come a long way and comfortably wears many hats.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Education : Pearle was a student of Holy Angels’ Convent Higher Secondary School, Trivandrum.
- She completed her degree in Media Studies from Christ University, Bengaluru.
- Family : Pearle is born to parents – Father Dr. Maaney Paul and Mother Molly Maaney.
- She has a younger brother and a younger sister, Rachel Maaney who has studied Fashion Designing.
- Currently, Pearle is based at Thottamugham, Aluva in Cochin.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Pearle Maaney started her television career with Yes Jukebox on Yes Indiavision.
- She became a popular face with the show “Taste of Kerala,” a travel based cookery show on Amrita TV.
- Pearle debuted in the Malayalam movie industry as a bike riding chick in the movie Neelakasham Pacha Kadal Chuvana Bhumi (2013) directed by Samir Tahir and starring Dulquer Salman.
- She played the small but significant role of Valli, in Njaan a historical drama film directed by popular Malayalam director Ranjith.
- Her role as SuhaNisa in the Jayasuriya movie Pretham (2016) was much appreciated as was her character in Kappiri Thuruthu (2016) in which she played a Jewish girl “Aami” in love with a Hindu boy.
Controversies :
- Pearle and her co-anchor / good friend Govind Padmasoorya, popularly called GP recently courted trouble when they launched a funny music video called Thengakola. It garnered many negative comments forcing Pearle to apologise and GP to put out an explanation as to the reason they released the video.
- Her post ‘Thanks to all Good Men’ on her social media page, in the backdrop of the New Year mass molestations that happened in Bengaluru has led to a lot of discussions.
- She also voiced her strong disapproval of magazines misprinting her interviews and changing her statements as per their whims and fancies.
- She posted on her social media page about how certain magazines were tweaking her statements as per their wish.
Body Measurements, Feet and Fun Facts :
- Pearle’s father, Dr. Maaney Paul is a popular motivational speaker / soft skills trainer and her wish is to follow in his footsteps.
- Pearle has written Screenplay for an English movie titled “The Perfectionist”
- Pearle loves to ride bikes and doesn’t miss out on driving one. Be it driving bikes on stage for D for Dance or playing a biker girl in more than one Malayalam movie.
- In October 2016, she teased fans on social media by posting that she would soon be part of a brand new show and asked them to guess what it would be. She went on to like a few comments which predicted that the show would have to do with motivating people and inspirational speeches as she had promised.