Keerthy Suresh

Keerthy (born on 17 October 1992) is an Indian actress. She appears primarily in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. She was awarded the National Film Award in Best Actress category for her role in the role of actress Savitri. She also won a Filmfare Award South and three SIIMA Awards. Keerthy has the father of filmmaker G. Suresh Kumar and actor Menaka G. Suresh. Her first career was an actress for children. Later, after studying fashion design, she returned to acting. She played her first major role on screen in Geethaanjali (2013), which was a Malayalam movie. 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). In 2015, Keerthy accepted her first films outside of Malayalam and signed up to appear in several Tamil films simultaneously. She released her first film, A. L. Vijay's romantic comedy Idhu Enna Maayam, in 2015. The film was starring Vikram Prbhu. It was not successful at the box-office. Due to her busy schedule, in 2015 she had no choice but to pull out of films which she had already begun making appearances, such as Krishna's Maane Thaene Paeye or Deekay's Kavalaivendam. In a short time she also worked with Sivakarthikeyan on Rajini Murugan, Remo and she also acted as the lead on Prabhu Sool's Thodari alongside Dhanush. Her Telugu debut was planned as Ainaa Ishtam nuvvu. The film's release was postponed in 2015 and now is expected to be after September 2020. It will have an entirely different name Janakitho Nenu. The debut film came out as Nenu Sailaja in 2016 with the actor Ram Pothineni. Keerthy played the lead role in Bairavaa produced by Bharathan and starring actor Vijay. Also, she was as a character in Tamil film Paambhu sattai and Telugu film Nenu Local in 2017.