Alexander Prasanth

Alexander Prasanth started out on television, anchoring Crazy Records, a campus game show on Asianet. Kamal then gave him his first film role, in Nammal (2002). Sometimes credited as Prasanth Alexander, he was born on 2 November 1979 in Tiruvalla and studied at Mar Thoma College, Tiruvalla, and Kodaikanal Christian College. For much of the following decade he took small and character roles in more than 50 Malayalam films, among them Best Actor, Hotel California and Ordinary (2012), where he played the jeep driver Velayudhan. Action Hero Biju (2016) and, later, Operation Java gave his career fresh momentum, and he also appeared in The Great Father, Ira and Johny Johny Yes Appa. Rajkumar Gupta's India's Most Wanted took him into Hindi cinema in 2019, as an intelligence officer named Pillai. He played the lead, Sebastian, in Purusha Pretham (2023), and has served as creative director on the film Race. In Oru Anweshanathinte Thudakkam (2024) he was Crime Branch CI Prathapan, and Turbo and Pani are among his recent credits. Praharam, an action revenge thriller from Ithihasa director Binu S, has him in its cast and is expected at the end of November 2026.