Marina Abraham is an Indian actress, YouTuber, and TV personality who is known for starring in the Telugu soap opera America Ammayi (2015) as Samantha Williams Vajrapati i.e. Sam.Marina was very young when her father passed away. Thereafter, she was raised by her mother.In an interview, she revealed that she was short-tempered during her childhood. While describing the same, she said, I was a very naughty girl. As I am the only child, I am still pampered by my mother. I lost my father at a young age and my mother and my grandmother would pamper me a lot. I was a shot-tempered person, and no one knows about it (chuckles). As time passed by my mom would ask me to stop being angry and control it. Eventually, I stopped being short-tempered.”.In Hyderabad, she began her acting career when one of her mother’s acquaintances, who was working in the entertainment industry, offer her a role. In an interview, she talked about the same and said, One of my mother’s friends was in the acting field and then she offered me a role. I came into this industry for some pocket money (laughs), but now it has turned out to be my full-time profession.”.In her debut TV show, America Ammayi (2015), she played the lead role of Samantha, a girl born and brought up in America, who determines to reunite her mother with her family in India. The show aired on Zee Telugu from 27 July 2015 to 21 July 2018.In an interview, while explaining why she preferred working on TV shows instead of films she said, My real journey started with auditions. I thought that I would work in movies. However, we can do only one movie per year and also there are many things that I was not comfortable with working in films. I tried a lot, I did ‘Romance with Finance’, and then immediately after doing that movie I got an offer from Zee Telugu for ‘America Amaye’ and I was very comfortable and happy with the character and then decided to get into serials.”.She played the protagonist Kavya in the Telugu daily soap Siri Siri Muvvalu (2019) on Star Maa. In the show, family circumstances lead a young woman named Kavya to marry a man who has no interest in married life. As the story unfolds, Kavya sets out to become an ideal wife to make her marriage work. Siri Siri Muvvalu (2019).In the same year, she secured the titular role in the show Prema on Zee Telugu after replacing the former lead actress. Marina Abraham as and in Prema (2019).Marina and her husband, Rohit, competed in the reality show Ishmart Jodi (2020) on StarMaa. The show followed twelve popular celebrity couples who participated in a series of fun and entertaining challenges to earn the title of ‘Ishmart Jodi.’ Marina Abraham and Rohit Sahni on StarMaa’s Ishmart Jodi (2020).In 2022, Marina and Rohit appeared as contestants on the reality show Bigg Boss (Telugu season 6) on Star Maa. Marina Abraham and Rohit Sahni on Star Maa’s Bigg Boss (Telugu season 6) They are the second celeb couple to appear as contestants in Bigg Boss Telugu after Varun and Vithika, who appeared in season 3 of the show.