Mammooty

Mammootty
Mammootty at the 62nd Filmfare Awards South, 2015
Native name	മമ്മൂട്ടി
Born	Muhammad Kutty Ismail Paniparambil (1951-09-07) 7 September 1951 (age 65) Chandiroor, Travancore-Cochin, India (present-day Kerala, India)
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Sacred Heart College, Thevara Maharaja's College, Ernakulam (B.A.) Government Law College, Ernakulam (L.L.B.)
Occupation	Actor Producer
Years active	1979–present
Spouse(s)	Sulfath (1979–present)
Children	Surumi Dulquer Salmaan
Awards	Padma Shri (1998)
Website	www.mammootty.com

Mammootty (born Muhammad Kutty Ismail Paniparambil on 7 September 1951) is an Indian film actor and producer best known for his work in Malayalam cinema. In a career spanning over three decades, he has acted in over 350 films.

Mammootty was a lawyer by profession. After establishing himself as a lead actor in the 1980s, he got his major breakthrough with the commercial success of the 1987 film New Delhi. He has won 3 National Film Awards for Best Actor, 7 Kerala State Film Awards, and 13 Filmfare Awards South. In 1998, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for his contributions towards the arts. He has also received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Kerala in January 2010 and from the University of Calicut in December 2010.

Mammootty is the chairman of Malayalam Communications, which runs the Malayalam television channels Kairali TV, People TV and WE TV. He is also the goodwill ambassador of the Akshaya project, the first district-wide e-literacy project in India. He is the patron of the Pain and Palliative Care Society, a charitable organisation in Kerala formed with the aim of improving the quality of life among patients with advanced cancer. He has also been working with the Pain and Palliative Care Centre situated in Kozhikode, India.