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Vijay

Vijay

Birthday: 1974-06-22 | Place of Birth: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

​Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar known mononymously as (Ilayathalapathy) Vijay, is an Indian film actor, and playback singer. He is the son of film producer and director S. A. Chandrasekhar. After performing uncredited roles as a child actor in films produced by his father, he made his film debut as a lead role actor in the 1992 film Naalaya Theerpu. Since then, he acted in several films of action and romance genres. He has also worked as a playback singer in most of his films, as well as a few films starring other actors. During his career in the Tamil film industry, he has won two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and was nominated for one Filmfare Award. Vijay has starred in several romance and action films, including the commercially successful films Poove Unakkaga (1996), Kadhalukku Mariyadhai (1997), Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1999), Kushi (2000), Priyamaanavale (2000), Ghilli (2004), Pokkiri (2007), Vettaikaaran (2009) and Kaavalan (2011). He also worked with several corporations as a brand ambassador and is a former brand ambassador of the Indian Premier League cricket team, Chennai Super Kings.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Beast

as    Veera Raghavan

2021
Master

as    John 'JD' Durairaj

2019
Bigil

as    Michael 'Bigil' Rayappan / Rayappan

2018
Sarkar

as    Sundar Ramasamy

2016
Theri

as    Joseph Kuruvilla/Vijay Kumar/ Dharmeshwar

2005
Sivakasi

as    Sivakasi / Muthappa

2003
Vaseegara

as    Bhoopathy

2002
Bagavathi

as    Bagavathi

2002
Youth

as    Shiva

2002
Thamizhan

as    Surya

2001
Friends

as    Aravindan

2001
Shahjahan

as    Ashok

2000
Kannukkul Nilavu

as    Gautham Prabhakar

1999
Nenjinile

as    Karunkaran

1999
Thulladha Manamum Thullum

as    Kutty

1998
Priyamudan

as    Vasanth

1997
Love Today

as    Ganesh

1997
Kaalamellam Kaathiruppen

as    Kannan

1997
Once More

as    Vijay

1996
Poove Unakkaga

as    Raja

1996
Selva

as    Selva

1995
Chandralekha

as    Rahim

1995
Vishnu

as    Vishnu

1994
Rasigan

as    Vijay

1984
Vetri

as    Child Artist (Uncredited Role)