KS Chithra
Pasi Sathya
P. R. Varalakshmi
Kutty Pooja
Sabitha Anand
Akhila Kishore
Brinda Das
Pooja Lokesh
Dubbing Janaki
Santhoshi
Saritha
Latha Sethupathi
Kanya Bharathi
Dhivyadharshini
Sri Durga
Radhika Sarathkumar
Devi Priya
Latha Rao
Roja Shree
Kalthoon Thilak
Vichu Vishwanath
LIC Narasimhan
George Vishnu
Lishoy
Afsar
Raj Premi
Sai Prashanth
Ajay
Vasu Vikram
Subbu Panchu
Kavithalaya Krishnan
Venu Arvind
M.S.Bhaskar
Krishna
Ravikumar
Sanjeev
Bose Venkat
Deepak Dinkar
Sathappan Nandakumar
1. KS Chithra
Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...
2. Pasi Sathya
Pasi Sathya is a Tamil film and television actress, who made her debut in the National award-winning Tamil film, Pasi, in 1979. She played the role of Chellamma, a friend of Shoba, who played the main lead role. After the film, she has used the prefix, Pasi. She essayed the role of a nurse in the 1999 musical romantic comedy film, Poovellam Kettuppar. Shewas also part of the 2001 Tamil romantic film, Shahjahan. In 2003, Sathya also acted in Kamal Haasan-starrer Anbe Sivam. In 2009, she appeared in Jairam D’s directorial film, Pinchu Manasu.
Other films under her credit are Veeran Veluthambi (1987), Vellaiya Thevan (1990), Patthathu Raani (1992), Magalir Mattum (1994), Nila (1994), Sindhu Nathi Poo (1994), Thirumoorthy (1995), H20 (2002), Engal Anna (2004), Sukran (...
3. P. R. Varalakshmi
P. R. Varalakshmi is an Indian movie actress in the period of 1970s and 1980s. She was one of the top homely actresses in South Indian cinema. Her first film was ‘Vazhaiyadi Vazhai’ in Tamil, which K. S. Gopalakrishnan directed. She was the leading Tamil supporting actress in films like "Padai Veetu Amman," "Mayandi," "Tiger Thathachari," and many more films. She recalls by saying that she has not achieved much success in her career as she had no godfather or a guide to managing her success. It was because of this she went to act in other South Indian languages films too. She has acted in around 600 films so far in all South Indian films.
Apart from playing heroines, she also had played a mother character on the big screen. Later, she had appeared in TV series later on. She is a fi...
4. Kutty Pooja
Kutty Pooja is a familiar face to those who watch Tamil serials regularly for some years now. She started her acting career from an early age but came into limelight with the television serial ‘ Munthanai Mudichu’, where she played a supporting role of a character named ‘Thenmozhi’. This serial was regularly aired on Sun TV from April 2010 and it ended only recently on January 2014. Hence Pooja’s acting made her a household name among the Tamil audience. But Pooja rose to fame with the more recent TV serial ‘ Azhagi’, where she played the important role of the daughter of the female protagonist of the story. Her character is named as ‘Mathi’ and on-screen, she was the eldest daughter of ‘Sundari’ which is played by Viji ...
5. Sabitha Anand
Sabitha Anand is a popular actress who has acted in Malayalam, Tamil films and has also appeared in many popular Tamil Television serials. Recently Sabitha Anand was seen alongside another actress and host Priya sharing her secret cooking recipes in the popular Tamil television show Celebrity Kitchen on the Tamil channel Puthuyugam TV. She is the daughter of famous and veteran Malayalam actor J.A.R. Anand and Sabitha Anand herself has been the leading lady of the Malayalam movies throughout the 80’s. She has acted with the leading starts of the Malayalam film Industry like Mammootty, Mohanlal, etc. and has starred in more than 100 Malayalam movies.
Meanwhile, she also acted in several hit and successful Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies and gradually shifted her base into the Tamil Television serials playi...
6. Akhila Kishore
7. Brinda Das
Brinda Das is a Tamil Television Actress best known for her quite popular role in the much talked about serial, “Anandham”. She was praised for her power- packed performance as an avenging free and an independent woman in the serial. Brinda made her debut with a television serial “Nam Kudumbam” in the early 90’s which was aired on DD Metro. She worked with veteran actor S.Ve. Shekher in this early television comedy and was among the earliest few to enter the Tamil television arena. A theater freak since college days, she always wanted to act and write. She has more than 20 serials in her credit and the list is adding up, the most liked ones are “Anandham”, “Kalyanam” and “Idhayam”.
A multifaceted personality by instinct, she is w...
8. Pooja Lokesh
Pooja Lokesh is a popular and famous, young, upcoming, and talented Indian actress who mostly works in Tamil television. Pooja Lokesh is also dubbed and acts as a dubbing artist for the lead roles in the national serials, which are dubbed in Tamil for airing in the Tamil entertainment television channels. Born to popular Kannada cine star Late Lokesh, Pooja Lokesh harbored a dream of becoming an actress and a famous cine personality since her childhood. The opportunity came knocking at her door during her college days. One of the leading television production companies noticed her and called for an audition for their upcoming projects. Pooja Lokesh gladly accepted this opportunity and decided to give it a try. His brother also works in films. Pooja Lokesh has had a successful stint in the Kannada film and television indu...
9. Dubbing Janaki
Dubbing Janaki is a popular South Indian television and film actress. Her real name is Janaki but when she dubbed for different characters, the film industry changed her name to Dubbing Janaki. She usually portrays motherly roles in almost all her movies and she became famous for it. Janaki was born in Pedhapuram, Vishakapatam, Andhra Pradesh. She was also a stage artist and acted in stage dramas when she was in her 4th class. Goli Ramakrishna Garu was her guru. Janaki completed until her 7th class only. She received many awards as Best Actress for her performances. She prefers to do dramas. She was married at her early age to a military employee. After their marriage,...
10. Santhoshi
Santhoshi is an Indian film and TV actress and was born as Santhoshi Krishna Moorthy. She was brought up in Chennai and was born on March 31, 1987. Her mother is Poornima, a TV actress. She was eight years old when she started appearing in serials alongside her mother. Her professional career started when she debuted in the film, Baba in 2002, in which she played as Manisha Koirala’s sister. She has acted in more than 15 films which include 10 Tamil films and 5 Telugu films. Subsequently, she won the Nandi Award for Best Female Comedian in her role as Gowri in the Telugu film, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana in 2005.
Though she portrayed supporting characters in most of the films, she also played a lead role in Unnai Charanadaindhen in 2003. She also played the lead rol...
11. Saritha
Saritha is a beautiful, sultry and captivating Indian screen goddess. She hails from the Southern part of India and her last known address is Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She is actually a veteran in the film industry in which her participation took prominence from 1978 hitherto. Saritha has featured in over one hundred and forty (140) films in India in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu dialects respectively. It was she who featured regularly in a TV serial entertainment show referred to as Selvi in the year 2005. Saritha’s journey into the make believe world commenced effectively from the period of 1978 to 1989. In actual fact Saritha emanated from her first movie Maro Charithra. The film was based on emotional display that passed a message of love for tradition and of course it was more of a passion thing. Throughout he...
12. Latha Sethupathi
Latha Sethupathi was born on 7 June 1953. She is a top quality Indian performing artist, who appeared in heading parts in South Indian movies amid the 1970s and early 1980s. She is likewise known for her roles in different serials in Tamil and Telugu dialect and keeps on being famous in this business sector.
Latha Sethupathi’s photogenic...
13. Kanya Bharathi
Kanya Bharathi or popularly known as Kanya is a popular television actress in the Tamil and Malayalam Television Serial industry. She was born and brought up in Kerala but got settled in Chennai for the past 20 years. She came to the tinsel town serial industry in her early teen. Her most notable serial is “Amma,” a Malayalam serial aired on Asianet TV.
A drama-based serial in itself, it is based on the family of Govinda and Subadra. They have 3...
14. Dhivyadharshini
Dhivyadharshini is a Tamil TV show host and compere. She is well known throughout Tamil Nadu as ‘DD’. Many newspapers praise her as the most successful compere in the history of Tamil TV industry. She came into this field under the compulsion to make her elder sister and brother study and to meet her family’s ends.
Dhivyadharshini was born in Chennai to Tamil Brahmin parents. She lost her dad at an early age and she entered the TV industry when she was 14. She acquired the chance to host Vijay TV’s ‘UngalTheerpu’. The bubbly actress was loved by everyone on the sets who predicted a history behind her. She was never let go from her alma mater Vijay TV though she had acted in serials in other channels too.
K.Balachander made he...
15. Sri Durga
Sri Durga or better known as Durga is a Tamil television actress who started acting since her childhood. Durga became famous for appearing in most of the tele-serials broadcasted in the entire regional TV channels. Durga currently lives with her parents and her two sisters. She has basic interest in music and photography. She mostly does heart-breaking roles rather than comedic roles. In 2013, she appeared in Tamil romantic-drama film, Aadhalal Kadhal Seiveer as Karthik’s sister, under the direction of Suseenthiran.
Television serial fanatics can watch her mostly in sensitive crying roles. Her face is very famous for doing teleserials like Uravugal by A.V. Babu in 1984, Thiyagam and Mundhanai Mudichu on Sun TV channel. Durga usually do emotional roles though she likes to have fun while shooting and on-scr...
16. Radhika Sarathkumar
Radhika is a famous actress in multiple of languages like Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi. She did her education in different places like Sri Lanka, India, and the United Kingdom. She was born in India. Her father is a famous Tamil comedian actor, M. R. Radha, and her mother is Geetha Radha. She has married with Sarathkumar at Chennai. She has a son and a daughter.
After a successful stint on the big screen for about 15 year, in which she acted as the leading actress, Radhika started working on her small screen career as a producer. In 1994, she started a TV film production under her own banner, Radaan Mediaworks, in which she produced several TV serials hits, and also played a leading role in those serials. Her first TV serial was “Chitti”, which has 467 episodes. For her performance a...
17. Devi Priya
Devi Priya made her debut appearance in the series Sakthi in which she worked with Bhanu Priya. She shot to fame with this serial, and she got many offers pouring in her way. She is best known for her appearance in the serial ‘Bharathiraja,’ in which she plays the character of a cop. She felt quite excited about playing the role of a cop. Since her childhood, she had wanted to become a cop, as she says this role has fulfilled her desire to live the life of a cop.
The list has not ended as she has many prominently appearing TV serials in her kitty. She was also seen in some popular TV serials like ‘Manikondu,’ ‘Bandham,’ and ‘Alaipayuthey.’ She received appreciation for her performance in the Tamil serial, Bandham. The serial was even ...
18. Latha Rao
Is it that Latha Rao and her husband Rajkamal made a pact? Yes it’s interesting and also surprising to watch that lovely couple wearing the same colour dress always!! Latha Rao is born on 5 the of June in Bangalore but brought up in a small town called Bavani sagar near Sathyamangalam, Tamil nadu. Her father was a government employee and mother, a home maker.
Her entry into serials is a surprise for herself. She came to Chennai for attending a function and there was a shooting happening nearby. Out of curiosity she went and was watching that and that’s when her debut into small screen happened. That was the famous “Metti Oli” serial’s shooting and because of her good looks she was offered a small role in that serial. Following that she acted in more than 30 serials in Tamil, telugu, Malayalam ...
19. Roja Shree
20. Kalthoon Thilak
Kalthoon Thilak was a Tamil actor born as Thilak Raj on 5th April 1943. He was also fondly called Thilak Ji. He turned popular after playing an important role in the film Kalthoon and the movie title got prefixed to his name. Thilak started his career as an editor’s assistant. He worked at AVM Studios in the editing section and had edited nearly 24 movies. Major Sundarrajan, the veteran actor, ran a drama troupe. Thilak joined the drama troupe and honed his acting skills. His debut as an actor in the Tamil film industry came in 1974 with the film Vellikizhamai Viratham. The film featured “Sivakumar,” “Jayasudha” and “Jayachithra” in the lead roles. In this movie, Kamal Haasan worked as an assistant dance choreographer to Thangappan Master befor...
21. Vichu Vishwanath
Vichu Viswanath is an actor. He featured in the film Aranmanai in the year 2014 and in Aambala (2015), which included Hansika Motwani and Vishal in the lead roles.
...22. LIC Narasimhan
LIC Narasimhan was called as Narasimhan, born in 1940. He is an Indian character actor who, preferably, was seen in Tamil-language films. He started his career in the year 1972 with the Tamil movie Aseervatham. Then in the year 1975, he did Andharangam. In the year 1983, he got two films to do, namely, Thudikkum Karangal and Adutha Varisu. Then in 1988, he was seen in Guru Sishyan, Uzhaithu Vaazha Vendum, and Puthiya Vaanam. In the year 1989, he then did En Purushanthaan Enakku Mattumthaan and Raja Chinna Roja. In the year 1990, he was featured in Pudhu Vasantham, Pudhu Padagan, and Ethir Kaatru.
Then Narasimhan did Captain Prabhakaran and Kizhakku Karai in the year 1991. He also made many more movies like Ninaivirukkum Varai, Dhaya, Ramachandra, Iyer IPS, Perarasu, and Sabari in the years 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007...
23. George Vishnu
George Vishnu who is also known by the names like Murali Raj Sathish, George Antony, Jorge or simply George, is an actor who works predominantly in Tamil films and television shows. He is a native of the state of Tamil Nadu and was born in the city of Chennai. He is the son of Ravichandran who was a former Tamil actor and Sheela who was a Malayalam actress. He has a wife named Smitha George. George’s career began when he was selected by the producer Bhasker as a debut actor to star in a film with the title Kadhal Rojavae. The movie was under the direction of Keyaar. He was a part of a cast which includePooja Kumar as the female lead.
The contract that George agreed to sign for the film includes a clause that stated that George could not work for any other project until Kadhal Roajvae finished shooting and hit the theatres...
24. Lishoy
Lishoy hails from Thrissur, Kerala. He is known as Prabhettan, the name of his character in the teleserial Kumkumapoovu, a super hit mega serial, telecasted on Asianet. The name Lishoy might not ring bells to many, but the audience would surely remember Professor Jayanthi’s husband Prabhettan (Prabhakar Menon). The serial that went to air in 2011 ended in 2014 with 783 episodes; such was its popularity. He is also part of a popular serial on Mazhavil Manorama named Balamani. Lishoy had acted in many movies before he entered the serial world. He acted as Joseph Alukka, father of Kunchako Boban in the movie Kasthooriman directed by Lohithadas. He has also acted as Manichan in Karutha pakshikal in 2006. Lishoy has worked in Muscat, Oman in the early 80’s before he made his entry into the serial and cinema worl...
25. Afsar
Actor Afsar was born in Sowcarpet in Chennai. He entered the serial industry in the year 1998. His first director was director S.P. Muthuraman. Nimmathi Ungal Choice is the first serial by Afsar. In his first serial, he acted in a younger brother role. At that time, he had just completed his final year degree. He says that he got a golden opportunity to step into the mini screen and he is still handling it with care.
Sontham, Alaigal, Ahalya, Enge Brahmanan were the serials which earned a good name for him. At present, he is doing the serial ‘Bommalattam’, which has a good reach to the audiences. He has done almost all the characters that are normally depicted by all the other actors. He was longing to act as an elder brother who carries all his siblings in his heart and works for them. He was ...
26. Raj Premi
Raj Premi is a well-known Indian actor, who does negative roles in most of his shows. He was first seen on DD Metro’s Shri Krishna in 1993, where he essayed the role of Shishupal. In 1997, he was starred on Sanjay Khan’s television series, Jai Hanuman; a story that portrays the life of the Hindu God, Hanuman. Raj played the role of Hanuman along with Irrfan Khan and Siraj Mustafa Khan. He also acted as Kans/Kongsho on Sagar Pictures’ Jai Shri Krishna on Colors. In 2010, the actor played the main negative lead as Surya Narayan Singh in the drama serial, Matti Ki Banno on Colors. In 2011, he played as Ahirya on Sagar Arts’ historical drama, Chandragupta Maurya on Imagine TV. It was later re-aired on Dangal TV after it was shut down by Imagine TV due to unknown reason. Raj was also cast in the drama soap, Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya on STAR...
27. Sai Prashanth
Sai Prashanth is a well known serial actor who has also acted in some films too. He entered into the acting field career at a very young age. After completing his tenth standard, he entered into the small screen. Being a native of Bangalore, Sai Prashanth was born on 7th of June 1985. He did his schooling in Padma Seshadhri Bala Bhavan Senior School in Chennai. Sai Prashanth is the only child off spring of his parents. His mother Lalithaa S Subhash is an ex vice-president of BJP unit of the State of Tamilnadu. She is also given the responsibility of one of the members of Censor Board.
Sai Prashanth kickstarted his career profession as a Video Jockey. The famous show Dil Dil Dil Manadhil was anchored by him. Sai Prashanth has acted in various TV Serials a...
28. Ajay
Ajay aka Gaurav Kapoor is a young handsome Tamil tv actor, a Punjabi by birth and brought up in Mumbai. His entry into film industry happened when he was studying in class twelve. Though he made his debut as an actor in the Hindi movie Priyadarshan's `Gardish', his Tamil serial ‘Kolangal’ brought him fame. After his appearance in Hindi movie and tele-films, he entered the Tamil Industry through a film called “Ooty” which wasn't a big hit. Later on after entering small screen, he was playing small roles in many serials when he got the offer for a negative character in a mega serial “Kolangal”, which was a big hit. Though he played the role of a savvy business man in that serial he was one of the most hated characters among Tamil audience when that serial w...
29. Vasu Vikram
Vasu Vikram is known as one of the hard working actor of Tamil industry, no matter it is drama serials or films. His nick name is M.R.R Vasuvikram. He started debut of his acting career in a film named “Naan Potta Savaal” directed by Puratchchi Dasan in 1980. In English, the title means “The challenge I tool” and it is fairly said that Vasu Vikram took the challenge for his future life after this movie and keep on doing his work with his full efforts.
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Vikram Vasu is an Indian actor and stage director who has acted in Tamil Films and Television shows. He was born on 16 December, 1966, in Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India, to M.R.R. Vasu (father) and Lalitha...
30. Subbu Panchu
Subbu Panchu is the son of the very popular producer and writer Panchu Arunachalam who has become a talented actor on his era. He was born in year 1969. Subbu’s first appearance as a child artist was from the Malayalam film, Daisy. After this, Subbu worked in the production department on the P. A. Art Productions of his father for a certain period of time. Then, he returned to acting with his first television serial, Arasi and he gained popularity because of his talented acting in the serial. He also acted in the big screen in 2010 where he did a comedic role in the Tamil film, Boss Engira Bhaskaran and became very popular. He worked occasionally as a dubbing artist and he also choreographed in some movies including K. Balachander’s Vidukathai. Subbu Panchu had lent his voice for the Tamil version of The Amazing Spider-Ma...
31. Kavithalaya Krishnan
T. Krishnan is a renowned actor who is popularly known as Kavithalaya Krishnan, due to his affiliation with Kavithalayaa Productions, owned by Tamil producer-director K. Balachandar who has produced many successful Tamil films and television serials. Krishnan is well-known for his superb acting in numerous supporting roles in TV serials and films here.
He was studying at the College of Engineering of Guindy, where he became friends with a classmate Mohan Rangachari, who later came to be known as Crazy Mohan – a famous Tamil comedy actor cum writer of plays and scripts. Mohan inspired his friend to start acting in the plays written by him, to be staged for Arts Society of Engineering College and both of them won several awards in college for their talents. But this was not the first chance that Krishnan won award for acting, beca...
32. Venu Arvind
Venu Arvind, or commonly known as Venu Aravind, is a Tamil TV and film actor, stage artist, dubbing artist and director. He was born on November 9, 1965, and studied B.Sc Physics with Masters in Management at DG Vaishnav College located at Chennai, Tamil Nadu. However, he rather chose media as his interest. He comes from a conservative family, but his parents gave their blessings and even encouraged him to do his best. He was married to Shobha.
Venu played as a child artist in Tuesday plays for DD right from 1975. He did many serials for DD such as ‘Alai Osai’, and ‘Rishimoolam’. Venu learned acting through Poornam Viswanathan’s theatre group during college. Venu became popular for appearing in K. Balachander’s serials and he became famous for his role as Chitti Babu in ...
33. M.S.Bhaskar
M. S. Bhaskar is an Indian actor, born on Jan 19, 1952, and hailed from Muthupettai, Tiruvavur District, Tamil Nadu, India. He used to be a theater artist and performed as a comedian in Tamil TV series and films. His method of acting is simple and is getting professional by the day. He became famous for playing as Pattabi in the TV serial, Chinna Papa Periya Papa and Selvi; and as Vakkeel Venky in the 2005 Tamil film, Sivakasi; and as Gnanaprakasam in Mozhi. Besides acting, he was also a dubbing artist and a playback singer.
34. Krishna
Krishna is a Tamil television serial and film actor. He was born in Chennai, and his parents are Mr. Raghunandan and Mrs. Nalini Raghunandan. He was married to an Indian actress, Chaya Singh, who acted in famous Tamil films like Thiruda Thirudi, Vallamai Tharayo, Arul, Thirupaachi, and Anandhapurathu Veedu. Their marriage was held on June 2012. They fell in love with each other while he was doing a villain role in the film, Anandhapurathu Veedu. Krishna was attracted to Chaya. She was from Bangalore and has acted in over 25 films through different languages.
Krishna became very famous for his acting in television serials in a protagonist roles. He acted in TV serials like Deivamagal, which earned him a lot of recognition, where he played the protagonist role of Prakash a...
35. Ravikumar
36. Sanjeev
Sanjeev is a Tamil lead actor in television and films. He is also a television host and been active in the industry from 1998 to till date. He is popular for appearing in the Tamil drama serial, “Thirumathi Selvam” directed by S. Kumaran and produced under Vikatan Televistas. He played the lead role as Selvam, a mechanic who was unmarried because he works hard for the welfare of his family. This serial was broadcasted on Sun TV from 2007 to 2013.
Sanjeev came from a family which is involved in television and films that’s why he ended up as an actor too. His sister, Sindhu, is an actress. Sanjeev is also the nephew of the late Yesteryear actress, Manjula Vijayakumar. His closest friend is Kollywood actor and playback singer, Vijay. They ...
37. Bose Venkat
Bose Venkat Commonly Known as Venkat, is an Indian Tamil Film and Television Actor who often plays supporting roles. He was born on May 15, 1975 in Madras, Tamil Nadu. He is married to Malayalam film actress, Sonia on September 5, 2003. They have two sons named Rudraksh Venkat and Tejaswin Venkat and a daughter Bavatharani. When he was 17 years old, he came to Chennai and wished to be successful in films. But, he was unlucky at the start of his career, so he worked as auto rickshaw driver while doing some auditions.
38. Deepak Dinkar
Deepak Dinkar is a popular image in the Tamil Television Industry. He is a popular host and participant of many reality shows and also appears on many shows on Vijay TV. He initially wanted to become an actor but accidentally, by chance, got an offer to become a host and he says "he has loved it totally."
He participated in the very first season of the dance reality show “Jodi No.1” and was praised by many dance experts on his dance prowess. He is quite famous to host shows along with his initial Jodi No.1 with partner DD and has been a household name ever since. They have also hosted Airtel Super Singer and other shows together.
When his friend and co-star, Sanjeev with whom he shares a great rapport, recommended him for a small role in ‘Thirumathi Selvam&rs...
39. Sathappan Nandakumar