Bharath Reddy

Bharath Reddy is a (October 22, 1974) Indian film actor who has appeared in Telugu and Tamil language films. Balancing a dual career as a doctor and actor, he made a breakthrough portraying a police officer in Chakri Toleti's bilingual film Unnaipol Oruvan (2009).

Career

Bharath Reddy was born in Tirupathi and was brought up in Chennai, completing his schooling from La Chateline Residential Junior College. He subsequently completed a medical degree from Yerevan State Medical University in Armenia and then went on to complete his Diploma in Cardiology and started work as a Junior Consultant Cardiologist at Apollo Hospitals and Century Hospital Hyderabad.

He did close to a dozen films in walk-in roles and in characters as a villain's henchman, before being noticed for his work in J. D. Chakravarthy's Siddham (2009). After being impressed by his performance in that film, Chakri Toleti selected him to play a police officer in his bilingual film Unnaipol Oruvan, where Bharath was able to act with veteran actors Kamal Haasan, Mohanlal and Venkatesh. Since then he has appeared in notable Telugu films including the Nagarjuna-starrers Ragada and Greeku Veerudu, as well as playing a role in Mahesh Babu's Businessman. He has also worked in Tamil films including as a police officer in Radha Mohan's Payanam, Ragalaipuram and most recently, Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal as Udhayanidhi Stalin's brother-in-law.