Mini Biography
Surya was born to actor Sivakumar and his
wife Lakshmi in Chennai, but brought up in
Coimbatore. He is the eldest of three children,
his younger brother is actor Karthik Sivakumar
and he has a younger sister named Brindha
Sivakumar.
He attended PSBB School and St. Bede's
School in Chennai and graduated from Loyola
College with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.
Surya debuted in the 1997 film Nerukku Ner
directed by Vasanth and produced by Mani
Ratnam. Later he starred in 2001 remake
Friends directed by Siddique and Nandha by
Bala for which he received a Tamil Nadu State
Film Award for Best Actor. Surya's next
venture was Vikraman's Unnai Ninaithu which
was followed by Mounam Pesiyadhe.
In 2003 he did Kaaka Kaaka; a movie about
the life of a police officer, it grossed almost
Rs. 150 million at the box office.[citation
needed] Then he did Pithamagan by Bala
along with Vikram. In this movie Surya played
a happy-go-lucky village crook with a comic
touch, for which he received a Filmfare Best
Supporting Actor Award.[citation needed] In
2004 he received a Filmfare Award for Best
Actor for playing two roles in Perazhagan;
[citation needed] one was as a boxer and the
other as a handicapped but confident phone
booth keeper. He then did Aayutha Ezhuthu
which was based on George Reddy, a student
leader in Hyderabad during the late 60s and
early 70s. This film was directed by Mani
Ratnam. In 2005, he appeared in Aaru and
then in Ghajini. In this movie he played a
patient suffering from short term memory loss.
He then set up a production company called
Studio Green which distributed the movie in
the Chennai district. Surya's 2006 release was
N. Krishna's Sillunu Oru Kaadhal. He acted
opposite his wife Jyothika Saravanan in the
film. In 2007, Surya's solitary release was Vel.
In 2008, he appeared in Vaaranam Aayiram,
which released on 14 November 2008. He won
a Filmfare Award for Best Actor, a Tamil Nadu
State Film Award for Best Actor, a Vijay Award
for Best Actor which was presented to him by
Kamal Hassan who acknowledged Surya's
versatility as an actor, and a Filmfans Award
for Best Actor and the film received the
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in
Tamil for 2008.[citation needed] Surya's next
film Ayan in 2009 was directed by K. V.
Anand and released on 3 April 2009.
Following Ayan, Surya starred in Aadhavan
directed by K. S. Ravikumar which was
released worldwide on 17 October 2009. He is
now acting in his 25th film, Singam, directed
by Hari. He will make his Bollywood debut in
Rakta Charitra, which is being directed by
Ram Gopal Varma and is scheduled for a
2010 release.
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