Keerthy Suresh

Keerthy Suresh (born 17 October 1992) is an Indian actress, who is primarily in Tamil and Telugu films, in addition to several Malayalam films. The actress was awarded the National Film Award's Best Actress award for portraying Savitri as the lead actor in the Telugu Film Mahanati (2018). Additionally, she was awarded a Filmfare Award South and three SIIMA Awards. Keerthy Kumar is the daughter of filmmaker G. Suresh Kumar, and actress Menaka G. Suresh. Her early career was as an actress for children. After completing her studies in Fashion Design, she returned to acting. Her first big role on screen in Geethaanjali (2013) in which was a Malayalam motion picture. She went on to star in successful films such as Ring Master (2014), Rajinimurugan (2016), Remo (2016), Bairavaa (2017), Nenu Local (2017), Sandakozhi 2 (2018), Mahanati (2018), Sarkar (2018), Sandakozhi 2 (2018), Penguin (2020), Miss India (2021), Good Luck Sakhi (2022) and Sarkaru Vaari Paata (2022). Keerthy began the first of her Malayalam projects, and then started working on projects in Tamil simultaneously. She released her first film, A. L. Vijay's romantic comedy Idhu Enna Maayam, in 2015. The film was starring Vikram Prbhu. The film did not turn out to be an immediate success in the box office. To accommodate larger projects due to her hectic schedule, she opted to not participate in certain films which she then began working on. It included Krishna's Maane Thaene Paeye (a romance) as well as Deekay's Kavalaivendam. The result was that she worked on two films in collaboration with Sivakarthikeyan in quick succession, Rajini Murugan and Remo, while also playing the main character in Prabhu Solomon's Thodari, alongside Dhanush.Her Telugu debut was planned to be Ainaa Ishtam Nuvvu. Though the release date for Janakitho Nenu has not been announced, it is reported that it may be in September 2020. Nenu Sailaja was released in 2016 and was starring in the role of actor Ram Pothineni. Keerthy was the lead actress alongside Vijay In Bairavaa by Bharathan, which premiered on January 17, 2017. In 2017, Keerthy also made an appearance on screen in Tamil film PaambhuSattai and Telugu film Nenu Local.