Known For: Indian actor and politician
Category: Actors
Country: India
City: Kollam
Language Malayalam
Mukesh Madhavan, known mononymously as Mukesh, is an Indian actor, film producer, television presenter, and politician who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema besides also having sporadically appeared in Tamil-language films. In a film career spanning four decades, he has acted in over 275 Malayalam films.
| BirthPlace | Kollam |
| Education | Sree Narayana College, Kollam |
| Father | O. Madhavan |
| Mother | Vijayakumari |
| Spouses | Methil Devika |
| Wikipedia | Mukesh_(actor) |
Mukesh was born to actors O. Madhavan and Vijayakumari, in Kollam, Kerala, India on 5 March 1957. He has two sisters, Sandhya Rajendran and Jayasree. Sandhya and her husband, E. A. Rajendran are also actors (stage and film). Mukesh attended Infant Jesus Anglo-Indian School in Kollam. He then pursued a bachelor's degree in science (B.Sc.) from Sree Narayana College, Kollam. He also holds a second bachelor's degree in law from The Kerala Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram. Mukesh was active in stage dramas before he entered the film industry. Mukesh is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M). He was elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly from Kollam Assembly constituency in the 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election. He won again from the same constituency in the 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election. However, his victory margin came down from 17,611 in 2016 to 2072 in 2021. In the 2024 Indian general election, Mukesh contested to the Lok Sabha from the Kollam Lok Sabha constituency.
