Prithviraj Sukumaran

Prithviraj Sukumaran was born on 16 October 1982 to the actors Sukumaran and Mallika Sukumaran in Thiruvananthapuram . Prithviraj hails from the well-known Nair family of south Kerala, the same family to which the famous Malayali authors Kainikkara Padmanabha Pillai and Kainikkara Kumara Pillai belonged. His maternal grandfather, Madhavan Pillai, was also a Gandhian and political activist who supported the Indian National Congress .

His family was settled in Tamil Nadu at the time, where he attended Shrine Vailankanni School in T. Nagar, Chennai, and St. Joseph's Boys School, Coonoor . When his family moved to Kerala, he attended the NSS Public School, in Perunthanni , Trivandrum . He then moved to St. Mary's Residential Central School in Poojappura where he acted in plays and skits for the school's annual day celebrations.

He completed his education at Sainik School, Kazhakootam , and Bhavan's Senior Secondary School, Kodunganoor in Thiruvananthapuram. After school, he enrolled in a bachelor's degree in Information Technology at the University of Tasmania in Australia but did not complete it. His highest level of education is higher secondary (+2) education. During this time, he auditioned for film director Ranjith and won the lead role in the film Nandanam .