Photo: Challiyan at Malayalam Wikipedia / CC BY 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Suresh Gopi interests me because second acts this complete are vanishingly rare. Plenty of actors flirt with politics; few carry a National Film Award into a cabinet ministry and treat both as serious work. His screen persona — the upright enforcer of Malayalam cinema's police thrillers — clearly built a reservoir of public trust, and he chose to spend that capital on governance rather than nostalgia. Whether one agrees with his politics or not, the trajectory from Kollam to stardom to minister shows a man who keeps raising his own stakes. I find the consistency of that ambition more telling than any single role.
Overview
Suresh Gopi (born 26 June 1958) is an Indian actor, playback singer, television presenter and politician who is currently serving as the Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Minister of Tourism since June 2024.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Suresh Gopi
- Name (Japanese)
- スレーシュ・ゴピ
- Reading
- すれーしゅ・ごぴ
- Born
- June 26, 1959 (age 66)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Boar
- Origin
- Kollam, Kollam district, India
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 184 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television presenter / film actor / politician / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Fatima Mata National College
Awards & achievements
- National Film Award for Best Actor
- Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sureshgopi/
- Xhttps://x.com/ActorSureshGopi
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suresh%20Gopi
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.