Zeenath

Zeenath is an Indian  actress in Malayalam movies and television serials. She has done supporting roles and character roles in many Malayalam movies without any career breaks since 1991.She has bagged the Kerala state film and television awards twice in her career, former as best dubbing artist and later as best actress.

Zeenath was born in 1962 at Nilambur, Malappuram district in a mediocre Muslim family. She has six siblings. She was one of the early few Muslim actresses in Malayalam cinema, inspired by yesteryear actress Nilambur Ayisha Nilambur Ayisha is a theater and film actress of t >> Read More... ’s success in the industry. Her acting career in Malayalam films started in 1978 with a small role in the movie Chuvanna Vithukal, a socio-political film by P.A Backer, alongside Nilambur Balan Nilambur Balan was an Indian actor in Malayalam In >> Read More... , Nilambur Ayisha and Santhakumari. She has done supporting roles in handful of movies in 1980s. Since 1991 she has become an indispensable part of Malayalam movies as character artists. She has left no stone unturned in choosing character roles in Malayalam movies and her versatility as an actor was evident in the spectrum of roles she has done, such as a bold woman Kadappuram Karthyayani in the movie Godfather ( 1991), as loving mother in  Meenathil thalikettu (1998) and as a society lady in Mr. Butler (2000). She has not restricted herself to any type roles which helped her in having such a long, break-free acting career as supporting actress in Malayalam movies. She has done over hundred movies with almost all leading directors in the field and also shared screen with all the superstars and leading actors. Her recent movies in year 2014 are Gunda, Pichaathi, Aleef, Parayan Baaki Vechathu.

Zeenath has acted in many professional dramas early in her career and has won the best actress award in Muslim Education Trust drama competition. She has also acted in some television serials, first beings a telefilm in Doordarshan named Poovan Pazham, alongside Nedumudi Venu Nedumudi Venu was born on 22nd May 1948. He is com >> Read More... , based on the famous short story of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer Born on January 21, 1908, in Kottayam district, Ke >> Read More... , for which she won the Best Actress Award at Kerala State television awards 1991. Recently, she has acted in A M Nazeer’s popular soap Parinayam and Shiju Aroor’s Bhagyadevatha in Mazhavil Manorama. She has also dubbed for Actress Swetha Menon in director P.T Kunju Muhammed’s  Paradesi in 2007, for which she won the Kerala State Best Dubbing Artist Award 2007. 

In personal life, Zeenath was married first to Malayalam drama director K.T Muhammed in 1977 and got divorced in 2007. She has a son Jithin in that relation. She later married Mr. Anil Kumar Anil Kumar was widely recognized in the India Film >> Read More... and the couple has a son, Nithin Anil Nithin Anil is a well-known director in the Indian >> Read More... . Zeenath lives with family in Kochi.