A number of Oriya actors have helped the Oriya film industry to grow with their performance and hard work. While some of the senior actors like Bijay Mohanty, Uttam Mohanty and others are busy with character roles today a new crop of actors have evolved who are taking Oriya cinema to new heights.

Some actors have shifted behind the camera as directors after a successful stint as actors. Such a list would include the names of the ailing Oriya star Hara Patnaik and Bijaya Jena. The latter is a well known Oriya female actor. Her film Hakim Babu won National Award for the Best Oriya Film. Today she is also a successful director and producer. A list of female Oriya actors would include the following names:





ORIYA ACTORS

Uma Devi	Mamata Ray Choudhury	Aarminta	Sasmita Pradhan	Mamuni
Gloria Mohanty	Dipa Sahoo	Prajukta Kulkarni	Moumita	Naina Das
Chapala Nayak	Rupalekha ray	Rachana Banrjee	Arpita	Ritu Das
Gitisudha Jena	Malabika Mohanty	Chandiata Sabat	Debashree Ray	Upasana Singh
Urbasi Tripathy	Subhra Pati	Puspita	Koel	Mithi
Dr.Sukhalata Das	Minu	Arura	Rupa Ganguli	Archita
Minati Das	Jaya	Singdha Mohanty	Dipti Naval	Debajani
Jharana Das	Shrabani	Dipti Nath	Nandita Das	Adyasa
Sujata Ananda	Bijayini Mishra	Anjana	Manaswini Ray	Lisa Mohanty
Soudamini Mishra	Aparajita	Sabitri	Pushpa Panda	Namrata
Geeta Rao	Tapati Bhatacharya	Kanta Singh	Lekha Nanda	Lipi Parida
Banaja Mohanty	Sangeeta Das	Puja Mishra	Anushree	Nikita
Niharika Sahoo	Mala Mathews	Jyoti Mishra	Jaya Mill	Leslie Tripathy
Anita Das	Baisali	Ushasi Mishra	Manjula Kuanra	Jaya
Mahasweta	Rameswari	Sweta Mallik	Manju Pradhan	Dipti Rekha Panda
Rita chand	Archana Joglekar	Mama Mishra	Roja Ramani	Dipa Sahoo
Tandra Ray	Indira Krishnan	Chinki	Rekha Jain	Priyambada Ray
Kshyanaprava Sadangi	ShreePrada	Pinki Pradhan	Anu Choudhury	Antara Biswas
Tripura Mishra	Mohini	Meghana Mishra	Barsha PriyaDarshini	Priyanka Mohapatra
Mala Bose	Shehnaz	Sangita Satpathy	Gayatri Jariwala	Anisha Das

The leading male Oriya actor today is Sidhanta Mohapatra. He is responsible for several hit films in the Orissa film industry. Other Oriya actors are:

Gopal Ghosh	Gobinda Tej	Anubhav
Goura Prasad Ghosh	Uttam Mohanty	Sritam Das
Sarat Pujari	Chakrapani	Sunil Kumar
Akshya Mohanty	Ajit Das	Arindam
Pramod Panigrahi	Ajit Kar	Sagar Mishra
ShreeRam Panda	Kasi Ratha	Samaresh Routray
Harish Mohapatra	Srikanta Nanda	Dusmanta
Prasant Nanda	Prithwiraj Nayak	Abhaya Kumar
Suresh Mishra	Mihir Das	Budhaditya

Prominent actors from Bengali films like Mithun Chakraborty and Ashish Vidyarthi have also forayed into Oriya cinema. Their participation has given a much desired boost to the Orissa film industry.