Vijay Suriya

Vijay Suriya (born 7 September 1990) is an Indian actor and presenter. He is noted for his work in the Kannada-language Colors Kannada soap opera Agnisakshi.

Early life

Suriya did his schooling at Clarence Public School and his pre-university education at Christ University in Bangalore. He took acting lessons in Whistling Woods Academy, Mumbai run by filmmaker Subhash Ghai. He has an elder brother. Suriya married a family friend and IT professional, Chaitra, in 2019. They have had two children together.

Career

Suriya made his screen debut in 2012, with the film Crazy Loka, in which he was cast opposite Harshika Poonacha. It was directed by Kavitha Lankesh, and saw Suriya play the son of Ravichandran's character.

Suriya rose to fame by 2014 from Agnisakshi, a television series, which aired on Colors Kannada. He then appeared in Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar's directorial Ishtakamya (2016). His next film, Sa, with Karthik Jayaram and Samyukta Hornad, was released in the same year. In 2019, Suriya had his next film release, titled Kaddu Mucchi. Suriya then hosted Comedy Talkies, a comedy show judged by Srujan Lokesh and Rachita Ram. After the soap Premaloka (2019), Suriya featured in Switch { Case N (2024) as an aspiring cricketer who lands a job in the IT sector and has to deal with the internal politics at his workplace. He made his debut in Telugu television with the soap, Krishnamma Kalipindi Iddarini, a remake of the Bengali series Saanjher Baati, in which he portrayed a visually impaired man. Speaking about the character, he stated: "My character Eshwar is not blind by birth but becomes blind due to an accident and develops a strong sense of hearing after this vision loss."