Nom de naissance Muhammad Kutty Ismail Paniparambil NationalitéInde Naissance 7 septembre 1951 (72 ans) à Chempu (Inde) Récompenses Padma Shri, National Film Award for Best Actor, Filmfare Awards South
Mammootty (born Muhammad Kutty Ismail Paniparambil on 7 September 1951), is an Indian film actor and producer who has mainly worked in Malayalam cinema. He has also acted in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada films.
He has been awarded the National Film Award for Best Actor three times. He has also won five Kerala State Film Awards for best actor and twelve Filmfare Awards South. In 1998, he was awarded the Padma Shri for his contributions towards the arts. He was also received honorary doctorate from the University of Kerala in January 2010 and by 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. 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 been working with the Pain and Palliative Care Centre situated in Kozhikode, India.