# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/madhu
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:45:21.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/madhu"
name: "Madhu"
slug: "madhu"
description: "Madhavan Nair better known by his stage name Madhu, is an Indian actor, director, producer, former college lecturer and former film studio owner, who works in Malayalam cinema and a certain number of Hindi and Tamil films. He was a prominent lead actor during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and has acted in more than 400 films. Madhu has also directed 12 films, produced 15 films and at one time owned the Uma Film Studio. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013 for his contributions towards the arts. He was honored with the J. C. Daniel Award by the Government of Kerala in 2004, for his outstanding contributions to Malayalam films. He is the president of Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) Kerala Unit."
tagline: "Malayalam actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Madhu_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1933-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.02
  momentum:             4.232002851033499
  historical:           9.087532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534867/"
    handle:    "nm0534867"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%BE%D9%88_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "مادھو (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87%D9%88_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "مادهو (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87%D9%88"
    title: "مادهو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%81_(%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE)"
    title: "मधु (अभिनेता)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu_(actor)"
    title: "Madhu (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu"
    title: "Madhu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5_(%E4%BF%B3%E5%84%AA)"
    title: "マドゥ (俳優)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu"
    title: "Madhu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%A7%E0%B5%81"
    title: "മധു"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%81_(%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D)"
    title: "மது (நடிகர்)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q277417"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1584055"
    title: "Madhu Vipparthi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump