Roshan Mathew

Roshan Mathew's acting began on stage, with Stagefright Productions' Dirty Dancing in 2011, while he was a Physics student at Madras Christian College. Born on 22 March 1992 in Changanassery, he studied at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kottayam, and left an engineering course at CUSAT after a year before taking his BSc. At college he joined professional theatre and co-founded the group Theatre No. 60. After graduating he trained at the Drama School Mumbai and acted in productions such as Faezeh Jalali's 07/07/07 and Rajit Kapoor's version of The Glass Menagerie. His screen work spans Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil. The web series Tanlines was his first screen role, and Puthiya Niyamam (2016) his first major film part. Aanandam (2016) made him widely known. Supporting roles in Anjali Menon's Koode (2018) and Geetu Mohandas's Moothon (2019), where he played Ameer, each won him a SIIMA Award. Leads in Kappela (2020) and C U Soon followed, and in Hindi he has appeared in Choked (2020) and Darlings (2022). He is set to lead Human, Jeo Baby's follow-up feature to Kaathal - The Core; its title poster was unveiled in Kochi. He also stars in Don Palathara's Ekadesham, which played festivals in Aachen, Barcelona and New Zealand before its India premiere in Dharamshala.