Keerthy was born to Malayalam film producer, director Suresh Kumar and actress Menaka, who is from a conservative Tamil family in Chennai.
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he played her first lead role in the 2013 Malayalam film Geethaanjali and signed up for films in Tamil and Telugu as well.
Keerthy was born to Malayalam film producer, director Suresh Kumar and actress Menaka, who is from a conservative Tamil family in Chennai. She has an elder sister Revathy Suresh, who works as a VFX specialist and had previously worked for Shahrukh Khan's production house Red Chillies. Until class four, Keerthy did her schooling in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She then studied in Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram before coming back to Chennai to join the Pearl Academy, where she completed her degree in fashion design. She also spent time on an exchange program in Scotland for four months, before completing a two-month internship in London. Despite making a career in acting, she has stated that she was also "seriously considering a career in designing". After a series of commercial films, the actress played the lead role in Mahanati, the biopic of legendary actress Savitri and her performance received exceptional response from the audience. With a bunch of films in her kitty, Keerthy Suresh is now one among the highest paid South Indian actresses currently. She is eagerly waiting for the release of Vijay's Sarkar directed by AR Murugadoss. Sun Pictures produced this big budget film.
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