Tennis Krishna | |
Birth Date: | 1961 6, df=y |
Birth Place: | Bengaluru |
Occupation: | Actor |
Tennis Krishna is a Kannada actor and comedian. He has acted in over 600 movies and has a record of appearing in 100 movies with comedy actress Rekha Das.[1]
His background is from Kannada theatre. Since Krishna was a common name in the film industry, he got the moniker Tennis Krishna to differentiate himself since he used to be a tennis coach.[2]
He acted with Kannada actor Dr. Rajkumar in the movie Jeevanachaitra. His first released Kannada, in a lead role for the first film was Appa Nanjappa Maga Gunjappa in 1994. After the success of Appa Nanjappa Maga Gunajappa, Tennis Krishna acted in many more films mainly in comedy roles including Bannada Neralu and Ond Chance Kodi.[3]