Radhika Narayan is an Indian actress,^[1] working primarily in mainstream Kannada cinema, and in Kannada theater, is a method actress who is known for the selection of her projects.

Radhika Narayan^[2] was born in the Krishna Temple city Udupi, Karnataka. She is an engineering graduate from Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology, in the Heritage city Mysore.^{[citation needed]} Besides being a film actress, she is a trained Kathak dancer,^[3] who is actively involved with WeMove Theatre movement and also acted in short films.^{[citation needed]} She has also worked as a model from earlier in her career. She was also a yoga instructor in Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana in Bangalore.

In her big screen debut in Anup Bhandari's directorial Kannada thriller RangiTaranga (2015),^{[citation needed]} she plays the protagonist character as Indu Suvarna, the wife of Gautam Suvarna (Nirup Bhandari). The movie was critically acclaimed for its screenplay, score and cinematography. Due to its word-of-mouth marketing the movie was a blockbuster in Karnataka and got a tremendous response in its worldwide release. Following Rangitaranga, Radhika played a supporting role in Pawan Kumar's thriller U Turn (2016).^[4] Recently, she has appeared in the Black Stone agarbatti's advertisement.