- Born
- Birth nameMadhavan Ranganathan
- Nickname
- Maddy
- Height5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)
- Ranganathan Madhavan was born on June 01, 1970, to businessman R. Iyengar and his wife R. Saroja in a Tamil family. He is an Indian actor, writer, film director and producer.
At the age of 18, his college entrusted him with the responsibility of representing India as a Cultural Ambassador to Canada.
A year later, he and three others from his college were sent to Britain as army cadets and received training in the royal army, navy, and Air Force.
While conducting courses on public speaking, he met Saritha, an Air Hostess and both got married 7 years later. Their first child, a son, Vedaant, was born in 2005.
A vegetarian and animal lover, he is a brand ambassador for PETA. He is fluent in English, Hindi, and Tamil.
Before making his appearance on the tinsel screen, he was popular on the idiot box on Sony's Deal Ya No Deal (2005). Having done close to 1800 episodes of various soaps on varied National Networks, he subsequently also appeared as the main character in a mobile game.
He made his debut with Inferno (1997) in 1998, and since then acted in nearly 48 movies in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada. He is popularly known as the 'chocolate hero', and his most popular film is 3 Idiots (2009) where he starred opposite Aamir Khan and Sharman Joshi.
- IMDb mini biography by: Balaji
- SpouseSarita Birje(1999 - present) (1 child)
- ChildrenVedant Madhavan
- ParentsSarojaRanganathan
- RelativesDevika(Sibling)
- Ever present recognisable smile.
- Often plays men caught dire personal situations in comical roles.
- Madhavan is one of the 3 actors with the maximum number of entries at 2 in the list of top-rated 10 Indian films, with Anbe Sivam and Vikram Vedha. The other actors with the most films in that list are Aamir Khan and Kamal Haasan.
- Starred in Shyam Benagal's shelved film " Ganga" co starring Aishwarya Rai, Karishma Kapoor. Music by AR Rahman. Govinda was earlier approached for Madhavan' s role.This was in 2001.
- Ashutosh Gowrikar selected R Madhavan for the film Swades.. There was a problem with the producers as they wanted a bigger star. That is when Shah Rukh Khan was signed.
- Mani Ratnam called him to his office for a screen test. It was for a senior role in Iruvar. Unfortunately, Mani thought his eyes were too young.
- The actor started his career from Marwah Studios in Noida Film City.
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