Vineeth Nambiar popularly known as Vineeth is a South Indian movie actor as well as classical dancer who has appeared in several well received movies in his native Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. He studied in Good Shepherd Public School, Ooty, and at St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Tellicherry. Vinneth’s birth name is Chathamath Konath Vineeth Nambiar and date of birth is 23rd August 1969.
Vineeth is a nephew of the |well-known Travancore sisters. Of them, apparently, Padmini and Ragini forced on his parents to send him to dancing school. Vineeth is also a cousin of the movie actress Shobhana and a relative of actress Sukumari.
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He caught the public eye by winning several awards in the Bharatanatyam dance form while learning in school including winning the first prize at the Kerala State Youth festival for four years in a row and winning the top prize of ‘Kalaprathibha’.
Vineeth started acting in films with the I. V. Sasi film Edanilagal in 1985. It was, however, with his second film Nakakshathangal in 1986 that he caught the public eye in films. His dancing skills were prominently displayed in several films as well.
He is a student of Padma Bhushan Padma Subramanyam.
He has acted in several well received films, since, in all the South Indian languages. In spite of his success in films, he still considers dance as his first love and is undergoing advanced training in Bharatanatyam and participates in several dance programs all over the world as well as the Surya Dance Festival.
In 2004, he married Priscilla Menon and lives in Chennai.
