It was followed by the third special, My Little Pony: Bridlewoodstock, in June 2023. In November, she appeared in a Netflix holiday special tied to the Make Your Mark series, titled My Little Pony: Winter Wishday. Also in April 2022, Ramakrishnan received the honorary Radius Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards, for her global impact on television. The third season premiered in September 2023. She also voiced the character for the CGI-animated Netflix series, My Little Pony: Make Your Mark, which premiered in September, and was preceded by a special of the same name in May. The first project, the 2D animated short-form web series, My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale, premiered on YouTube in early April. Ramakrishnan was announced to voice Zipp Storm throughout the content slate for the fifth incarnation of the My Little Pony franchise. The film was released on 11 March on Disney+ and at limited theaters. That month, she also voiced Priya Mangal, an Indian-Canadian mellow, deadpan girl who is one of the protagonist's friends, in the Pixar animated fantasy comedy film Turning Red. In March 2022, Ramakrishnan was announced as a brand ambassador for clothing retailer American Eagle's "Member's Always: Future Together" campaign along with Madelyn Cline, Joshua Bassett, Michael Evans Behling, Coco Gauff, and Mxmtoon. In February 2021, Ramakrishnan was named as Breakout Actor in Time's Time 100 Next list of the next hundred rising, influential people. Later that month, she hosted the livestream segment of the Children's and Youth Programming Category for the 8th Canadian Screen Awards. In May, Ramakrishnan participated in the live-read series Acting for a Cause, appearing as Olivia for a live staged reading of William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, to help raise money for a local hospital in Chicago, which was struggling to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2020, Netflix reported the series had been viewed by 40 million households globally since its release. She received nominations for an Independent Spirit Award, a Canadian Screen Award, an MTV Movie & TV Award, and two People's Choice Awards. Both the series and Ramakrishnan's performance received positive reviews, with Variety calling it a "breakout performance". The program ran for four seasons until June 2023. Ramakrishnan's character, Devi Vishwakumar, an Indian-American Tamil high school student, is loosely based on Mindy Kaling. In April 2020, Never Have I Ever premiered on Netflix. That same year, Today named her one of eighteen "Groundbreakers" on the International Day of The Girl, a list of girls who were breaking down barriers and changing the world. Her casting received significant media attention, especially in Canada, both due to the nature of the open casting call and for her Tamil Canadian identity. Maitreyi revealed in an interview that she grew up watching Vijay's acting in Pokkiri and it was one of the influences to consider a acting career. Ramakrishnan was 17 at the time of her casting and had not acted professionally. Ramakrishnan created her audition tape at a local library, using her mother's camera, eventually being asked to send four more videos, before having a screen test in Los Angeles and being offered the role. In 2019, she was chosen by Mindy Kaling out of 15,000 candidates that had applied for an open casting call for the show. Ramakrishnan made her professional acting debut as Devi Vishwakumar, the protagonist, in the Netflix teen comedy streaming television series Never Have I Ever. In 2021, she deferred her acceptance a second time, while also switching her degree to human rights and equity studies. She deferred her acceptance to the theatre program at York University in Toronto, which she had initially planned to attend the fall after she graduated high school, so she could shoot the series in Los Angeles. Ramakrishnan made the decision to pursue an acting career in her last year at Meadowvale, and got the role in the Netflix teen romance series Never Have I Ever less than a year after. She went to Lisgar Middle School for elementary and graduated from Meadowvale Secondary School. She identifies herself as Tamil Canadian rather than Sri Lankan. She was born to Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu parents who immigrated to Canada as refugees due to the Sri Lankan Civil War. Ramakrishnan was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario. She is known for her leading role as high school student Devi Vishwakumar in the Netflix teen comedy series Never Have I Ever (2020–2023) and for her voice role in the Pixar film Turning Red (2022). Maitreyi Ramakrishnan ( / m aɪ ˈ t r eɪ i ˌ r ɑː m ə ˈ k r ɪ ʃ n ə n/ my- TRAY-ee RAH-mə- KRISH-nən born 28 December 2001) is a Canadian actress.
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