Madonna Sebastian

Madonna Sebastian (born 19 May 1992) is an Indian actress and singer who works mainly in Tamil and Malayalam films. She debuted in the Malayalam film Premam (2015), and has since worked in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada cinema, appearing in successful films such as Kavan (2017), Virus (2019), Shyam Singha Roy (2021) and Leo (2023).

Early life and music

Madonna was born in Kolenchery, Kerala, to Sebastian and Shyla, and grew up in Angamaly. She studied at St Peter’s Senior Secondary School, Kadayiruppu, and earned a B.Com from Christ University, Bangalore. A trained singer in Carnatic and Western music, she sang for composers such as Deepak Dev and Gopi Sunder and performed on the television music programme Music Mojo. With Roby Abraham she formed the band Everafter.

Premam

Director Alphonse Putharen saw her hosting a Surya TV programme and invited her to audition for Premam. Though she was not keen on acting, she auditioned; she was considered for Mary but, saying she related more to Celine, took that role, and Mary went to Anupama Parameswaran.

Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam

Her Tamil debut came opposite Vijay Sethupathi in Kadhalum Kadandhu Pogum (2016), and she starred with Dileep in the Malayalam King Liar (2016). She reprised her role in the Telugu remake of Premam (2016), with Naga Chaitanya and Shruti Haasan, her Telugu debut. In 2017 she appeared with Vijay Sethupathi again in Kavan and in Dhanush’s directorial debut Power Paandi, both successes.

Malayalam hits

She followed with Iblis (2018), the medical thriller Virus (2019), in which she played Dr. Sara Yakub, and the blockbuster Brother’s Day (2019).

Recent work

She made her Kannada debut opposite Sudeep in Kotigobba 3 (2021) and appeared in the Telugu hit Shyam Singha Roy, starring Nani and Sai Pallavi. She also acted in the Tamil web series Kaiyum Kalavum and the Telugu series Anger Tales, the Malayalam hit Padmini (2023), and played Vijay’s twin sister, Elisa Das, in Leo (2023).

Sources: Wikipedia and Wikidata.