Personal Info:
Name: Surya
Real Name: Saravanan Sivakumar
Nick Name: Surya
Date of Birth: 23 July 1975
Birth Place: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Profession: Actor, Producer
Height: 5.7”
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Biography:
Personal Life:
Saravanan Sivakumar, known by his stage name Surya, was born on 23 July 1975 to Tamil Film actor Sivakumar and his wife Lakshmi as Saravanan. He has two younger brothers Karthi and a sister Brindha. He completed schooling in Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan School and St. Bede’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai, and obtained his undergraduate degree B.Com from Loyola College, Chennai. He married to Jyothika and the couple, after being together for several years, got married on 11 September 2006. They blessed with two children.
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| Surya family childhood pic |
Career:
Before his career in movies, Surya worked at a garment export factory for eight months. In 1995 He was initially offered the lead role by Vasanth in his movie Aasai, but he rejected the offer citing a lack of interest in an acting career. When he was 22 years of age, He later debuted in Vasanth’s own 1997 film Nerrukku Ber, produced by Mani Ratnam. The stage name Suriya was bestowed to him by Ratnam to avoid a clash of names with established actor Saravanan and the name Suriya was frequently used for characters in Ratnam’s films. In the 1990s this was followed by a series of roles in commercially unsuccessful movies. In 1998, he starts in the romance film Kaadhale Nimmadhi with whom he plays alongside another hero Murali then in July Sandhippoma.
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| Surya family picture |
He confessed that he struggled due to lack of confidence, memory power, fighting or dancing skills in his early career, but it was actor Raguvaran, one of his mentors, who advised him to create his own identity and rather than stay under his father’s shadow. In 2003, Surya starred in Gautham Menon’s Kaakha Kaakha, a movie about the life of a police officer. In 2004, he played dual roles in Perazhagan, as an aggressive boxer and a handicapped phone booth keeper and Suriya’s performance won positive reviews. In 2004 Suriya Sivakumar along with R.Madhavan was Pepsi’s brand ambassador in Tamil Nadu and he was chosen to represent TVS Motors, Aircel, and Sunfeast Biscuits in 2006, the latter which he endorses to this date.
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| Jyothika Family |
In 2011 Surya had signed a new deal with Nescafe, Close-Up, and Zandu Balm brand as of May 2011, for which he appeared with actress Malaika Arora. In 2012, He was drafted in by Malabar Gold, a leading jewelry group and the commercials for Aircel and Nescafe featured Suriya and his wife Jyothika together. In the 2013 interview with the Bangalore Mirror, Disney UTV’s head of business in South India, G.Dhananjayan credited Suriya as the biggest star in contemporary Tamil movies and claimed it was mainly because of his popularity among Telugu speaking viewers.
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| Surya Complete Family Pic |
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| Surya Brother Karthi and Father Vijaykumar |
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| Surya Brother Karthi Family |
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| Surya Family Img |
His Movies List:
2001 – Nandha
2002 – Mounam Pesiyadhe
2003 – Kaakha Kaakha, Pithamagan
2004 – Perazhagan, Aaytha Ezhuthu
2005 – Ghajini
2008 – Vaaranam Aayiram
2009 – Ayan
2010 – Singam
2011 – 7aum Arivu
2013 – Singam II
2016 – 24
2017 – Singam 3
2019 – Kaappaan
He won 3 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, 5 SIMA Awards, 5 Edison Awards, 4 Filmfare Awards South, 6 Vijay Awards, 1 ITFA Best Actor Awards, 1 Zee Cine Awards and 7 others.
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