# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nedumudi-venu
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:21:40.059Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nedumudi-venu"
name: "Nedumudi Venu"
slug: "nedumudi-venu"
description: "Kesavan Venugopal, better known by his stage name Nedumudi Venu, was an Indian actor and screenwriter from Kerala, who predominantly worked in Malayalam cinema. He acted in more than 500 films, primarily in Malayalam and also in Tamil, in a career spanning nearly five decades. He wrote screenplays and directed one film. Nedumudi Venu won three National Film Awards, three Filmfare Award South and six Kerala State Film Awards for his performances in various movies."
tagline: "Indian actor and screenwriter (1948–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nedumudi_Venu_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1948-05-22"
deathDate: "2021-10-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump