Jayam Ravi is an famous South Indian actor who works in the Tamil and Telugu film industry. He was born on September 10, 1980, in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. The popular actor, Dulquer is best known for his Thani Oruvan (2015), Adanga Maru (2018), Bhoomi (2021), Iraivan (2023), Genie (2023), Ponniyin Selvan 2 (2023) and Agilan (2023). Apart, Jayam Ravi also will be a part of the new upcoming Indian movie KH 234 (2024).
Jayam Ravi started his acting career at a very young age, he starred as a child artist in the 1993 Telugu film, Bava Bavamaridi. The film, which was the remake of the Tamil film, Pandithurai was a blockbuster at the box office and following its huge success, it was later remade in Hindi as Bandhan and in Kannada as Baava Baamaida. After starring in another Telugu film as a child artist in 1994, Jayam Ravi made his debut as the lead in 2003 with Jayam and immediately rose to fame. The film directed by his brother Mohan Raja and co-starring Sadha received wide critical appreciation and emerged as to box office blockbuster.
In 2005, the actor had two releases, Daas and Mazhai. Whilst the former directed by the debutant director, Babu Yogeswaran was a hit, the latter received mostly negative reviews and was an average earner. The actor had his next major hit in 2008 as he starred in the family romantic drama, Santosh Subramaniam. In his only release in 2016, Jayam Ravi collaborated with director Shakti Soundar Rajan for the first-ever Tamil zombie thriller film, Mirtuhan.
The film co-starring Lakshmi Menon received mixed critical reviews, with Sudhir Srinivasan from The Hindu stating it as an inconsistent zombie film with excessive melodrama Jayam Ravi started his campaign in 2017 with the Tamil supernatural thriller Bogan directed by R. Lakshmanan. The film co-starring Arvind Swamy, Hansika Motwani, and Akshara Gowda despite receiving average reviews turned out to be a commercial hit.
His other release of the year includes Vanamagan, an action-adventure directed by A.L. Vijay and co-starring Sayyeshaa Saigal. . His 2018 releases include Tik Tik Tik and Adanga Maru. His other releases include Thumbaa (2019), Comali (2019), Bhoomi (2021) and Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022), Agilan (2022) and Iraivan (2022), and Ponniyin Selvan 2 (2023).
Ravi is the son of Mohan, a leading film editor in the South Indian film industry, and Varalakshmi. The actor has two siblings; his elder brother Mohan Raja is a film director and he has a sister named Roja who is a dentist. Ravi went to Jawahar Vidyalaya School in Ashok Nagar, Chennai, and later pursued his graduate degree in Visual Communications from Loyola College, Chennai.
Coming from a family with a strong background in the film industry, Ravi had a keen interest in films from a very young age. Jayam Ravi is married to Aarthi, the duo who tied the knot in June 2009.