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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.
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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.
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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. 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.
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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 Eelam Tamil Hindu parents who immigrated to Canada as refugees from Sri Lanka due to the 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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