Abhirami

Abhirami (born Divya Gopikumar on 26 July 1983) is an Indian film actress, who has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films.

Early life and Education

Abhirami was born as Divya to Gopikumar and Pushpa who were a bank officials in Trivandrum, Kerala. She had her primary education from Christ Nagar English High School and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Trivandrum and predegree from Mar Ivanios College. She graduated in Psychology and Communications from the College of Wooster in Ohio. Her family migrated to United States. Her parents are currently yoga instructors at Ohio.

Career

Abhirami began her career as a TV anchor for the program Top Ten which aired on Asianet Channel. She acted in a small role in the Malayalam film Pathram in 1999 and in a series Mercara directed by Jude attipetty. Later she acted in films such as Millennium Stars, Njangal Santhushtaraanu, and Sraddha before shifting to Kollywood where she appeared in films including Middle Class Madhavan, and Samudhiram. Her first Tamil film was Vanavil opposite Arjun. A notable film in her career is Virumaandi where she appeared opposite Kamal Hassan. Besides Tamil and Malayalam, she has appeared in Telugu and Kannada films and was a notable Tollywood actress. She appeared opposite Upendra in the film Raktha Kanneeru in 2004. and in Sriram opposite superstar Shivrajkumar

Before acting in films, Abhirami appeared in the 100 episode Malayalam serial Akshaya Pathram by Sreekumaran Thampy. She also starred as a child artist in director Adoor Gopalakrishnan's film Kathapurushan. Later in 2004 she retired from movie industry and went to United States for studies.

She recently dubbed for Pooja Kumar in both parts of Kamal Haasan's Vishwaroopam.

She is making a comeback through Apothecary(Film) a 2014 Malayalam movie starring Suresh Gopi.

Abhirami is also the host of Rishimoolam on the Tamil television channel Puthuyugam.

Family

She got married to Rahul on 27 Dec 2009 in Bangalore after fifteen years long love affair. It was a very private and small function as they both want simple marriage. They didn't invite anyone from film field. They studied in the same school and the friendship lead to love when she was doing Top Ten, a program in Asianet. Now she is working in as the marketing director of an MNC in United States.

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