Keerthy Suresh (born 17 October 1992) is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Malayalam films.
[3] After winning the SIIMA Award for Best Female Debut – Tamil for Idhu Enna Maayam (2015), Keerthy went on to star in successful films such as Ring Master (2014), Nenu Sailaja (2016), Rajinimurugan (2016), Remo (2016), Bairavaa (2017), Nenu Local (2017), Sarkar (2018), Thaanaa Serndha Koottam (2018).
[7] She then studied in Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom, Kerala before coming back to Chennai to join the Pearl Academy, where she completed her degree in fashion design.
[10] In the early 2000s, Keerthy worked as a child actress in a few of her father's productions, such as Pilots (2000), Achaneyanenikkishtam (2001) and Kuberan (2002) and some television serials.
[8][11] In 2004, she produced the Malayalam comedy film Vettam, alongside her mother Menaka and sister Revathy Sureshkumar.
[12] Eleven years after Kuberan, she made her debut as a lead actress in Priyadarshan's horror film Geethaanjali,[13] in which she had a dual role.
[21] Her busy schedule throughout 2015 meant that she had to opt out of films which she had already started working on, including Krishna's Maane Thaene Paeye and Deekay's Kavalai Vendam, in order to accommodate bigger projects.
[22] She consequently worked on two films with Sivakarthikeyan in quick succession, Rajinimurugan and Remo, while also playing the lead role in Prabhu Solomon's Thodari, alongside Dhanush.
Her next release was the Malayalam film Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham starring Mohanlal directed by Priyadarshan,[41] which opened to mixed reviews became box office bomb.
[42][43] Her first release of 2022 was the Telugu film Good Luck Sakhi[44] which again opened to negative reviews and ended up as a commercial failure.
However, her third release, the Chiranjeevi-starrer Bhola Shankar, remake of the Tamil movie, Vedalam (2015), opened to negative reviews and became a box office disaster.
Her first release of 2024 was Siren a Tamil action thriller by debut director Antony Bhagyaraj opposite Jayam Ravi where Keerthy portrayed as Inspector.
[50] Keerthy portrayed the lead role, a career woman who learns Hindi to receive a job to escape from marriage.
[53][54] Forbes India noted, "Keerthy has earned her stripes in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films, impressing with her spontaneity."
[59] After a 15-year relationship, Keerthy married her long-time boyfriend, Antony Thattil, on 12 December 2024, in Goa in a traditional Tamil Brahmin and Malayali Christian wedding ceremony.