Birthday: 01 Jun 1970 (Age 43) Jamshedpur,Jharkhand R. Madhavan (born as Madhavan Ranganathan) is a Filmfare Award-winning Indian actor. Unlike other prominent actors in India, Madhavan began to act after marriage, at the age of... Complete: Madhavan Biography

 

Date of Birth

1 June 1970, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

Age – 43 yrs

Birth Name

Madhavan Ranganathan

Nickname

Maddy

Height

5' 10½" (1.79 m)

Mini Biography

Madhavan was born on June 1, 1970, in a Tamil-speaking family.

At the age of 18 his college entrusted him with the responsibility of representing India as a Cultural Ambassador to Canada.

A year later he and three others from his college were sent to Britain as army cadets and received training in the royal army, navy, and Air Force.

While conducting courses on public speaking, he met Saritha, an Air Hostess and both got 7 years later. Their first child, a son, Vedaant, was born in 2005

A vegetarian and animal lover he is a brand ambassador for PETA. He is fluent in English, Hindi, and Tamil.

Before making his appearance on the tinsel screen, he was popular on the idiot box on Sony's 'Deal Ya No Deal'. Having done close to 1800 episodes of various soaps on varied National Networks, he subsequently also appeared as the main character in a mobile game.

He made his debut with 'Inferno' in 1998, and since then acted in nearly 48 movies in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Kannad. He is popularly known as the 'chocolate hero'.

Spouse

Sarita Birje

(1999 - present) 1 child

Awards – Madhavan won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor for his role in ‘Kannathil Muthamittal’, ‘Run’, ‘Anbe Sivam’ and ‘Aayutha Ezhuthu’. He won nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Farhan Qureshi of ‘3 Idiots’. He has also received awards and recognitions from other organizations.

 

Trivia – Madhavan is known as ‘Maddy’ by his family, friends and fans. Madhavan endorses the brand PETA. In June 2006, he was voted as the “cutest male vegetarian” by an online poll conducted by the NGO (PETA). In July 2006, Paradox Studios Limited launched a new game compatible with Mobile phones, with Madhavan as the lead character. The company released two mobile game titles namely Madhavan MIG and Madhavan featuring Madhavan as their lead character.

 

Biography – Madhavan was born to a Tamil-speaking family in Jamshedpur on 1^st June 1970 to Ranganathan,  management executive with Tata Steel and Saroja, manager with the Bank of India. He has a software engineer sister, Devika, settled in United States. Though Madhavan nursed an ambition to join the army, he went on to pursue a degree in Electronics upon the insistence of his parents. After completing his degree, he went on to teach communication and public speaking at workshops around India. At one such workshop in Maharashtra, he came in contact with Sarita Birje, an air hostess, who then went on to become his wife in 1999. They had their first son, Vendant in August 2005.

 

Madhavan did a sandalwood talc advertisement for Santosh Sivan in 1996. Sivan recommended him to Mani Ratnam for a screen test for a role in ‘Iruvar’. However Madhavan failed to bag the role. He then turned his attention to Television and appeared in a number of series and shows such as ‘Yule Love stories’ (being his first venture into  Hindi television serials), ‘Banegi Apne Baat’, ‘Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hu’m and ‘Tol Mol ke Bol’. His first movie appearance was a cameo in ‘Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin’. His first Indian movie was the Kannada movie ‘Shanti Shanti Shanti’ in which he played second lead role. In 1999, Mani Ratnam cast him in lead in his Tamil romantic film ‘Alaipayuthey’ which went on to become a blockbuster! He then went on to act in other Tamil movies such as ‘Kannathil Muthamittal’, ‘Run’, ‘Anbe Sivam’, ‘Aayutha Ezhuthu’ winning him awards and accolades and ‘Minnale’ which was remade into hindi as ‘Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein’ marking Madhavan’s debut into mainstream Bollywood movies. Although Madhavan hasn’t played many leading roles in Bollywood movies, his cameo as well as supporting roles such as in ‘Rang De Basanti’, ‘Guru’, ‘Mumbai Mere Jaan’ are much appreciated and critically acclaimed too. His role in ‘3 Idiots’ won him a nomination in the prestigious Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor category.

 

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