Suresh Gopi did his schooling at the Infant Jesus Anglo-Indian High School at Thangasseri. He graduated in English Literature from Fatima Mata National College in Kollam. He is married to Radhika, the granddaughter of Aranmula Ponnamma, the famous actress who passed away in 2011 after a very long stint in the Malayalam film industry, and has four children : Gokul, Bhagya, Bhavna, and Madhav. He is settled at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Suresh Gopi first appeared onscreen as a child in K. S. Sethumadhavan's Odeyil Ninnu, in 1965. He returned to acting in the 1986 Sathyan Anthikkad movie T.P. Balagopalan M.A. The films which made Suresh Gopi a bankable lead actor were Thalastanam (1992), Ekalavyan (1993), Mafia (1993) and Commissioner (1994)!
In Jayaraj's Kaliyattam (1997), an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, Suresh Gopi won the National Film Award for the Best Actor for playing the role of Kannan Perumalayan. This can be considered a main turning point in his career.
His movies after 2005 like Bharathchandran I.P.S., The Tiger, Chinthamani Kolacase, Nadiya Kollappetta Rathri, Detective etc were commercial successes with the first one being a HUGE HIT!
He has not got the recognition he should have got effortlessly from the contemporary films in 2000s! Many of the movies, which were of good quality, flopped at the box office! It was the sheer negligence & baseless bias shown towards his movies from the side of the ordinary film goers that has created such a situation for him, despite the films being of good quality! The films include LANKA, TIME, SMART CITY, SAHASRAM etc! One can watch these movies on DVDs these days which will create an extremely fine image of Suresh Gopi in one's mind that should be appreciated for quality!
Awards
National Film Awards:
* Best Actor - 1998 - Kaliyattam
Kerala State Film Awards:
* Best Actor - 1998 - Kaliyattam
Film Critics Awards:
* Film Critics Best Actor Award (three times)
* Best Supporting Actor Award (four times)
