Devan Sreenivasan (born 8 January 1952) is an Indian film and television actor and politician.
He is known for his character roles, mostly as villain, in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and a few Kannada and Hindi films.
He played lead roles in films like Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam (1987), Oozham (1988), Simon Peter Ninakku Vendi (1988) and Aranyakam (1988).
His well-known such films include Vietnam Colony (1992), Ekalavyan (1993), Honest Raj (1994), Baashha (1995) and Indraprasdham (1996).
He went to Madras (now Chennai) in search of a job and later took post-graduation in Master of Business Administration.
[3] Devan started his acting career in supporting roles, after being approached by a producer at Spencer Plaza in Chennai.
[citation needed] Devan was active in Kerala Students Union (KSU) in his college days.
[8][9] He contested and lost in the Wadakkanchery Assembly constituency by-election in the same year as an independent candidate.
[10] In 2021, it was merged with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Home Minister of India Amit Shah.