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.

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