This list outlines the names of notable film actors of ethnic Tamil origin. The names are ordered by the actors' first or stage name.
Actors
Aari Arujunan Ajay Rathnam Akhil Ameer Appukutty Arjunan Aruldoss Arun Pandian Arun Vijay Arvind Swamy Ashok Selvan Attakathi Dinesh Azhagam Perumal Aziz Ansari Bala Saravanan Bagavathi Perumal Besant Ravi Bharani Bharath Bonda Mani Ceylon Manohar Chaams Charle Charuhasan Crane Manohar Darshan Dharmaraj Delhi Ganesh Dhamu Dhanush Dhruv Vikram Elango Kumaravel Ennathe Kannaiah G. Marimuthu G. Ramanathan G.Srinivasan Ganja Karuppu Gautham Karthik Gemini Ganesan George Maryan Goundamani Gowtham Sundararajan Gundu Kalyanam Guru Somasundaram Harish Kalyan Idichapuli Selvaraj Irfan Ilavarasu Imman Annachi Inigo Prabhakaran J. Livingston Jai Jai Akash Jaishankar Janagaraj Jay Chandrasekhar Jayam Ravi (Half Tamil) Jayaram Jiiva (Half Tamil) Jithan Ramesh (Half Tamil) K. Balaji K. Manikandan K. Sarangapani K. A. Thangavelu K. K. Soundar K. R. Ramasamy Kalaiyarasan Kalloori Vinoth Kali N. Rathnam Kamal Haasan Karthi Karthik Karunakaran Karunas Kathir Kavin King Ratnam Kishore DS Krishna Kullamani Kuralarasan LIC Narasimhan Loose Mohan M. K. Radha M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar M. S. Bhaskar Mahanadhi Shankar Mansoor Ali Khan Manivannan Major Sundararajan Maran Michael Thangadurai Mime Gopi Mohan Raman Munishkanth Murali (Half Tamil) N. S. Krishnan Namo Narayana Nandha Durairaj Nassar Naveen Chandra Nellai Siva Nithin Sathya Nizhalgal Ravi O. A. K. Thevar O. A. K. Sundar Omakuchi Narasimhan P. S. Veerappa P. U. Chinnappa Pandi Pandiarajan Pandiyan Pandu Pasi Narayanan Pasupathy Periya Karuppu Thevar Ponnambalam Poornam Viswanathan Pradeep Ranganathan Prabhu Prasanna Prashanth (Half Tamil) Pugazh
Pyramid Natarajan R. Madhavan R. Muthuraman R. K. Suresh R. S. Manohar Raghava Lawrence Rahul Ravindran Rajasekhar Rajesh Ramarajan Ramesh Aravind Ramki Ravi Mariya Ravi Raghavendra Ravichandran Rajendran Rajkiran Redin Kingsley Robo Shankar S.A. Ashokan S.J. Suryah S. S. Rajendran S. V. Ramadas S. V. Sahasranamam S. V. Venkataraman Sadhu Kokila Sai Dheena Sam Anderson Samuthirakani Santhanam Santhosh Prathap Saran Shakthi Sarathkumar Saravanan Sasikumar Sathyan Sathyaraj Scissor Manohar Selva Selva Rasalingam (Half Tamil) Sendhil Ramamurthy (Half Tamil) Sendrayan Seeman Senthil Shaam Shanmugasundaram Shiva Sibiraj Siddharth (actor) Silambarasan Singampuli Sivakarthikeyan Sivaji Ganesan Sivakumar Soori Soundararaja Sree Raam Sri Srikanth (Half Tamil) Subbu Panchu Sundar Raj Suresh Joachim Suriya Suruli Rajan Swaminathan T. Rajendar T. R. Ramachandran T. S. Balaiah Teejay Arunasalam Thambi Ramaiah Thengai Srinivasan Thiagarajan Thyagu V. Gopalakrishnan (actor) V. Ravichandran V. K. Ramaswamy V. I. S. Jayapalan V. S. Raghavan VTV Ganesh Vadivelu Vagai Chandrasekhar Vasanth Ravi Vela Ramamoorthy Vennira Aadai Moorthy Vetri Vidharth Vignesh Vijay Vijay Antony Vijay Sethupathi Vijay Vasanth Vijayakumar Vikram Vikram Prabhu Vikranth Vimal Vinod Raj Vinoth Kishan Vivek Y. G. Mahendran Yogi Babu Yugi Sethu
Actresses
Aathmika Abhirami Adah Sharma Akshara Haasan (Half Tamil) Amara Karan Ammu Abhirami Amritha Aiyer Athulya Ravi Chandini Tamilarasan (Half Tamil) Charithra Chandran C. R. Vijayakumari C. T. Rajakantham Deepa Shankar Deepa Venkat Dhansika Disco Shanthi Divyabharathi Dushara Vijayan E. V. Saroja Esha Deol (Half Tamil) Gayathrie Gandhimathi Geraldine Viswanathan (Half Tamil) Hema Malini Hemalatha Indhuja Ravichandran Indira Krishnan J.Jayalalithaa Joshna Fernando Janani Iyer Jeevitha K. Thavamani Devi K. B. Sundarambal Kalpana Iyer Kanika Kanmani Manoharan Keerthi Pandian Keerthy Suresh (Half Tamil) Kruthika Jayakumar Kumari Rukmani Kutty Padmini Kuyili Lakshmi (actress) (Half Tamil) Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli Lakshmy Ramakrishnan Lalitha Kumari Latha Sethupathi (Half Tamil) M. N. Rajam M. R. Santhanalakshmi M. S. Subbulakshmi Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Malavika Avinash Manochitra Manorama Meenakshi Seshadri Meera Vasudevan Meghana Raj (Half Tamil) Menaka Mirnalini Ravi Mrudhula Bhaskar N. C. Vasanthakokilam
Nanditha Jennifer Niranjani Shanmugaraja Nisha Krishnan Nivetha Pethuraj Ooha P. A. Periyanayaki Padma Lakshmi Padmapriya Janakiraman Poornima Bhagyaraj Poornima Indrajith Preity Mukhundhan Priya Anand (Half Tamil) Priyanka Arul Mohan (Half Tamil) Priya Bhavani Shankar Priyamani Preetha Vijayakumar (Half Tamil) Radhika Preeti (Half Tamil)
Ramya Krishnan (Half Tamil) Ramya Pandian Ranjitha Rathi Arumugam Regina Cassandra Rekha (Half Tamil) Rukmani Devi Rukmini Vijayakumar Rupa Manjari Riythvika S. N. Lakshmi Sanchana Natarajan Sangeetha Krish Sathyakala Sathyapriya Semmalar Annam Shammu Shanthi Krishna Sheela Rajkumar Shivani Rajashekar Shivathmika Rajashekar Shruti Hassan (Half Tamil) Simone Ashley Sri Priyanka Sridevi (Half Tamil) Sridevi Vijayakumar (Half Tamil) Sripriya Srividya Sruthi Hariharan Sukanya Suhasini Mani Ratnam Sumathi Swarnamalya Tanya Ravichandran Teju Ashwini Trisha (actress) T. A. Madhuram T. R. Rajakumari T. P. Rajalakshmi T. V. Rathnam Tharini Mudaliar U. R. Jeevarathnam V. N. Janaki (Half Tamil) Vadivukkarasi Vanitha Krishnachandran Varshini Sounderajan Vasundhara Devi Vasundhara Kashyap (Half Tamil) Varalaxmi Sarathkumar Vidya Balan Vidyullekha Raman Vimala Raman Vindhya Vinodhini Vaidyanathan Vijayalakshmi Agathiyan Vyjanthimala
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