Suriya

Saravanan Sivakumar (born 23 July 1975), known by his stage name Suriya, is an Indian actor and film producer. He primarily works in Tamil cinema where he is one of the highest paid actors. He has received numerous awards including two National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards South, five Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and two South Indian International Movie Awards. Suriya has featured six times in the Celebrity 100 list of ''Forbes India'', which takes into account the earnings of Indian celebrities.

After making his debut in ''Nerukku Ner'' (1997) at the age of 22, Suriya landed his breakthrough role in ''Nandha'' (2001) and then had his first major commercial success with the thriller ''Kaakha Kaakha'' (2003). Following award-winning performances of a conman in ''Pithamagan'' (2003) and a hunchback in ''Perazhagan'' (2004), he played a man suffering from anterograde amnesia in the 2005 blockbuster ''Ghajini''. He rose to stardom with dual roles of a father and son in Gautham Vasudev Menon's semi-autobiographical ''Vaaranam Aayiram'' (2008). His status as an action star was established with roles of a smuggler in ''Ayan'' (2009), and an aggressive cop in the ''Singam'' trilogy. He also found success with the science fiction films ''7aum Arivu'' (2011) and ''24'' (2016) and then went on to work in critically acclaimed films like ''Soorarai Pottru'' (2020) and ''Jai Bhim'' (2021), the former of which earned him the National Film Award for Best Actor.

Suriya is the elder son of actor Sivakumar and his younger brother Karthi is also an actor. In 2006, he married actress Jyothika whom he co-starred with in 7 films. In 2008, he began Agaram Foundation, which funds various philanthropic activities. The year 2012 marked his debut as a television presenter with the Star Vijay game show ''Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi'', the Tamil version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?''. In 2013, Suriya founded the production house 2D Entertainment. Provided by Wikipedia