Keerthy Suresh (born 17 October 1992) is an Indian film actress who predominantly appears in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films.
She is the daughter of Malayalam producer Suresh Kumar and actress Menaka. Keerthy made her debut as a child actress in the early 2000s and returned to fill lead roles after completing an education in fashion design. She played her first lead role in the 2013 Malayalam film Geethaanjali and signed up for films in Tamil and Telugu as well.
Keerthy was born to Malayalam film producer, director Suresh Kumar and actress Menaka, who is from a conservative Tamil family in Chennai.She has an elder sister Revathy Suresh, who works as a VFX specialist and had previously worked for Shahrukh Khan's production house Red Chillies. Until class four, Keerthy did her schooling in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She then studied in Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram before coming back to Chennai to join the Pearl Academy, where she completed her degree in fashion design. She also spent time on an exchange program in Scotland for four months, before completing a two-month internship in London. Despite making a career in acting, she has stated that she was also "seriously considering a career in designing".