Chitra Shaji Kailas, popularly known as Annie is an Indian film actress. Her career spanned a total of three years with sixteen films in Malayalam cinema. Her debut role was in Balachandra Menon's Ammayane Sathyam (1993). Her well-known films include Mazhayethum Munpe (1995), Parvathy Parinayam (1995), Tom & Jerry (1995), Puthukkottayile Puthumanavalan (1995), and Swapna Lokathe Balabhaskaran (1996). She hails from a Christian family in Palai and brought up at Thiruvalla Kerala. Her mother died when she was at grade 8. She has three sisters.[2] She gave up acting after getting married to director Shaji Kailas on 1996 by converting to Hinduism and adopted name Chithra. They have three children Jagannathan, Sharon and Roshan, and are now settled in Thiruvananthapuram. In August 2015 she started hosting a show Annie's kitchen in Amrita TV. Her last movie before marriage was Mookkilla Rajyathu Murimookkan Rajavu 1996.