K P A C Lalitha’s birth name is Maheshwari Amma. She learned dance in the child hood. She started her acting career through K P A C dramas. Her debut play was Geethayude Bali. She came to movies in 1970. Then she changed her name to K P A C Lalitha. In 1978 she married the famous Malayalam scriptwriter cum director Bharathan. After taking a break from movies she came back through the movie pon muttayidunna taravu. She acted in lot of off beet movies too. She won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Shantham. She acted in over 500 Malayalam movies and is still active in the industry.
K.P.A.C Lalitha is the proud owner of the powerful and modulative voice. That voice given completion to her characters and made that roles immortal. For movie “Mathilukal”, In which heroine is represented by voice no appearance on screen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan used her voice for heroine. It is recognition for her distinguished voice.
K P A C Lalitha won two national award for best supporting actress, for amaram (1991) and for Santham (2000) she also won 4 Kerala State Award for Best Second Actress for her performance in Neela Ponman,onnum lelle(1975), Srishti Chhara(1978), Aravam(1980), Amaram, Kadinjool Kalyanam, Godfather, Sandhesam(1991). Her  recent movie  is APRIL FOOL. Directed by Viji Tampy, the script is written by famous comedy actor Jagadeesh. Other casts are Siddique,  Jagadeesh, Jagathy Sreekumar. K P A C Lalitha, Manoj K Jayan, Maniyanpillai Raju, Indrans, Kaveri and Maidhili. APRIL FOOL’s lyrics are written by late famous lyricist Gireesh Putancheri and music is done by 4 time state award winning musician M .Jayachandran.