P. Ravi Shankar is a South Indian actor, voice artist, and also known as director and writer. He was born on 28 November 1966 in Madras, Madras State, India. Ravi is well known for Baahubali: The Beginning (2015), Kempe Gowda (2011), and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017).
P. Ravi Shankar debuted with the Telugu film Gorintaku in 1979 and then went on to do notable work in movies like Vettaikaran (2009), Happy Happy Ga (2010), Kote (2011), Bachchan (2013), Manikya (2014), Plus (2015), Shivam (2015), RX Soori (2015), and Love U Alia (2015).
He had several releases in 2016, the prominent ones being Jaggu Dada, Nataraja Service, Mungaru Male 2, and Santhu Straight Forward, and was nominated for SIIMA Award for Best Actor In A Negative Role for the movie Mukunda Murari.
His 2017 acting venture includes the Kannada action film Hebbuli starring Sudeep, under the direction of S. Krishna, and also the Kannada thriller movie Dandupalya – 2 starring Pooja Gandhi in the lead role, under the direction of Srinivasa Raju.
He is associated with the bilingual movies Rajaratha and Rajaratham, directed by Anup Bhandari. His other projects include Ayogya (2018), Victory 2 (2018), Ananthu v/s Nusrath (2018) Seetharama Kalyana (2019), Yajamana (2019), Sinnga (2019), Kurukshetra (2019), Odeya (2019) and Utraan (2020).
His 2021 release includes Roberrt, an action thriller film directed by Tharun Sudhir. P. Ravi Shankar’s next project is Veera Simha Reddy (2023) which play the role of Krishna Reddy in the movie.
His mother Krishna Jyothy Pudipeddi acted with Kannada actor Dr. Rajkumar in movies such as Sri Krishna Garudi, Makkala Rajya, etc. Ravi Shankar’s fatGarudaudipeddi Jogeswara Sharma was also an actor and dubbing artist who worked in Telugu, Kannada, and Tamil films. As a dubbing artist, Pudipeddi Sai Kumar became an actor in the Kannada film industry.
He is married to Suchil, a Punjabi woman, and they have a son, Adhvey. Ashley Ravishankar announced that he will launch Adhvey as an actor in his own Kannada film.