Jayalalithaa: From films to politics in pictures 15 Photos . Updated: 07 Dec 2016, 05:06 PM IST Livemint J. Jayalalithaa, who died on Monday night, served five terms as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu between 1991 and 2016. She was a leading actress before entering politics and appeared in 140 films from 1961 to 1980 in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi film industries. 1/15Jayalalithaa with Sivaji Ganesan in a movie Chitra Pournami produced in 1976. HT 2/15Jayalalithaa, the newly elected Rajya Sabha Member, with the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in Delhi on 21 April 1984. HT 3/15Jayalalitha with the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in New Delhi on 6 April 1989. PTI 4/15Jayalalithaa with the then Prime Minister P. Narsimha Rao on 16 July 1991. HT 5/15Jayalalithaa greeted by followers on 28 July 1987. HT 6/15Jayalalithaa with the then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi on 27 March 1997. HT 7/15Rajiv Gandhi with injured Jayalalithaa in a Chennai hospital on 25 February 1990. PTI 8/15Jayalalithaa (centre) with West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu and Subramanian Swamy in New Delhi. HT 9/15Jayalalithaa meets the then Union home minister L.K. Advani at North Block in the Capital on 8 October 1998. HT 10/15Jayalalithaa with Samajwadi party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav at Yadav’s residence in New Delhi on 21 April 1999. PTI 11/15Tamil Nadu’s chief minister Jayalalithaa with Congress president Sonia Gandhi at the latter’s residence in New Delhi on 5 June 2001. HT 12/15Tamil Nadu chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa presents a shawl to the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee at his residence in New Delhi on 5 June 2001. HT 13/15J&K chief minister Farooq Abdullah and Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa congratulate then newly-elected vice president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat before the swearing-in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on 19 August 2002. HT 14/15Jayalalithaa holds a sword at the AIADMK party office in Chennai on 12 March 2009. PTI 15/15Jayalalithaa with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 3 June 2014. PTI