Arvind Swamy
Arvind Swamy | |
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Swamy at the 63rd Filmfare Awards South in 2016 | |
| Born | 18 June 1970 Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Education | Loyola College, Chennai (BCom) Wake Forest University (MA) |
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| Spouses | Gayathri Ramamurthy
(m. 1994; div. 2010)Aparna Mukherjee (m. 2012) |
| Children | 2 |
| Father | V. D. Swami |
Arvind Swamy (born 18 June 1970) is an Indian actor, film director and entrepreneur known for his work in Tamil cinema and a few Hindi cinema, Telugu cinema and Malayalam cinema. He was introduced as an actor by Mani Ratnam with the blockbuster film Thalapathi (1991) and subsequently starred in successful films such as Roja (1992), Bombay (1995), Minsara Kanavu (1997), Thani Oruvan (2015), and Chekka Chivantha Vaanam (2018). He made his debut as a director in the Netflix anthology series Navarasa (2021) in which his segment was named Project Agni(Adbhutha-Wonder). He is a recipient of three Filmfare Award South, one Tamil Nadu State Film Award and two SIIMA Awards.
Swamy also starred in other regional film industries, including Telugu and Malayalam films where he has done films such as Mounam (1995), Daddy (1992) and Devaraagam (1996). He has also appeared in Hindi, making his debut appearance as lead actor in Saat Rang Ke Sapne (1998). He briefly worked as a television presenter as the host of the third season of Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi (2012–2016) on Star Vijay.