Krishna is an Indian film and television actor. He is best known for playing the lead role in the
Deivamagal
''Deivamagal'' ( God's daughter) is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera starring Vani Bhojan and Krishna. It was broadcast on Sun TV initially from Monday to Friday and later extended to Saturday at 8 PM from 25 March 2013 to 17 February 2018 ...
as Prakash which telecasted on
Sun TV.
Early life and education
Krishna was born in
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of ...
. His parents had migrated from
Tamil Nadu
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to
New Delhi
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after his birth, and he grew up in
New Delhi
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. He obtained his formal education from
Kendriya Vidyalaya
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and
Birla Institute of Technology Birla may refer to:
* Birla family
* Members of the Birla family:
** Aditya Vikram Birla
** Ananya Birla
** Basant Kumar Birla
** G. D. Birla
** K. K. Birla
** C. K. Birla
** Kumar Mangalam Birla
Kumar Mangalam Birla (born 14 June 1967) is ...
,
Noida
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. He also did a three-month course in acting from
Asian Academy of Film & Television
Noida Film City houses the Asian Academy of Film & Television and Marwah Films & Video Studios along with prominent news channels from India. It is located in Sector 16-A Noida, India. It was founded in 1988 by Sandeep Marwah, an Indian film pro ...
(AAFT)
Noida
Noida, short for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, is a planned city located in Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Noida is a satellite city of Delhi and is a part of the National Capital Region (India) ...
.
Career
After completing his degree in Delhi, he flew to Chennai to begin a career in acting. His first role was in the Tamil serial ''Sahana'', a sequel of
''Sindhu Bhairavi'' directed by
K. Balachander. He portrayed the character Surya, son of JKB.
Krishna was offered to perform the role of a
cancer
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patient in
Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, playback singer, television presenter and politician who works mainly in Tamil cinema and has also appeared in some Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Bengali f ...
starrer
Vasool Raja MBBS but couldn't sign the project. He was later offered a role in director
Saran's ''
Idhaya Thirudan''. In 2010 he played a negative role named Jeeva in the Tamil movie Anadhapurathu Veedu.
He acted in the TV serial ''
Deivamagal
''Deivamagal'' ( God's daughter) is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera starring Vani Bhojan and Krishna. It was broadcast on Sun TV initially from Monday to Friday and later extended to Saturday at 8 PM from 25 March 2013 to 17 February 2018 ...
'' where he played the protagonist role of Prakash, and in the suspense-thriller serial,
'' Chidambara Rahasiyam'' where he played the character Somu both broadcast on
Sun TV. In 2019 he acted in the TV serial ''
Run
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Places
* Run (island), one of the Banda Islands in Indonesia
* Run (stream), a stream in the Dutch province of North Brabant
People
* Run (rapper), Joseph Simmons, now known as "Reverend Run", from the hip-hop grou ...
''. In 2020 Krishna acted in
''Nayagi (Season 2) '' as Ezhil. He now is acting in
''Thalattu''.
Filmography
Television
;Serials
;Shows
Theatre
*Oru Koodai Paasam (2009) – Directed by
K.Balachandher
Awards and nominations
Personal life
He is married to Indian actress
Chaya Singh
Chaya Singh is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Tamil and Kannada films and television shows. She started her acting career in Kannada films and has worked in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali and Bhojpuri films. She has a reputation ...
. Their marriage was held in June 2012.
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Krishna
Living people
Tamil male actors
Indian male film actors
Tamil male television actors
Television personalities from Tamil Nadu
Male actors from Chennai
Male actors in Tamil cinema
21st-century Tamil male actors
Year of birth missing (living people)