Disney James

Disney James is an Indian actor and a screenwriter well known for his work in the Malayalam film industry. He has done movies as a lead actor and as a supporting actor as well. He was born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India on 21 January 1981. He is the son of James D. Plakkiyil, who used to be a Bank Manager, Kottayam, and Tessy James, who hails from Maliekkal Catalan family. Disney has grown up in Thekkada along with his two elder siblings, Deepa Saji and (late) Denny James. He completed his schooling till tenth from Sarvodaya Vidyalaya Nalanchira, Thiruvananthapuram. Later, Disney James completed his pre-university course at Marlvanious College. He completed his graduation in Electrical Engineering at St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering, Nagercoil.

He is greatly inspired by his late grandfather Mahakavi Panditaratnam Vachaspathi Prof. P.C. Devassia. After completing his college, Disney started working as a salesman in Bangalore and also did T.V. anchoring. After that, he attended an interview for the job of lecturer in Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum in 2004. He got selected for the job. He once performed on stage during an inter-college competition, after watching his performance, one of the college students asked him to play in a music video alongside the actress Iniya. In 2005, he did his first short film with late veteran actor Bharath Gopi Bharath Gopi was the evergreen pride of Malayalam >> Read More... . After that, he did several music videos, short films, and much more. He did the same while balancing his professional life and acting career at the same time.

In 2007 he worked as Site Engineer and Service Engineer in Dubai. When he came back to India after two years, he decided to start his acting career all over again. While he was beginning his acting career, he did not get proper guidance due to which he faced trouble with many film frauds. To compensate his budget, he used to work part-time as a news reader and an anchor for Victors channel. Late, that year he got to work in Sinu Nambiar film, House no. 13, whose production was stopped after the first schedule. After that, he did many low budget Tamil and Malayalam movies, until he got to work as a lead actor in the commercial film @Andheri, directed by Biju Bhaskar Nair. He also worked in the film Memories, directed by Jeethu Joseph Jeethu Joseph is a Malayalam film screenwriter and >> Read More... . He also worked in other Malayalam movies such as Ennu Ninte Moideen, Mudhugauv, and many more. He has attended many workshops including the workshops conducted by Artfactory, Trivandrum, and Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts & Research, Pondicherry.