Vikram: Biography, Education, Family
Vikram was born as Kennedy John Victor on 17 April 1966 to a Christian father and a Hindu mother. Vikram was educated at Montfort School, Yercaud, which is a boarding school in a hill station near Salem.
After completing his basic schooling education, He attended Loyola College, Chennai with a degree in English Literature and worked halfway towards an MBA program. In this college time duration, Vikram appeared in stage productions including college adaptations of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial and Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy, receiving best actor awards for his performances. After winning a Best Actor Award at a function held at IIT Madras.
Vikram's father, John Victor was a native of Paramakudi and ran away from home to start a career in films, but worked only in minor roles. Vikram's mother, Rajeshwari was a government officer who reached the rank of sub-collector. Rajeshwari was born into a Hindu family with film connections. He also has a brother, Thiagarajan, who is an established director-actor in the Tamil film industry.
Vikram: Girlfriend, Wife, Kids
In the late 1980s, Vikram met Shailaja Balakrishnan and married her in 1992 at Guruvayoor Temple in a mass wedding alongside dozens of couples. After that, they had a low-key wedding ceremony conducted at the church at Loyola College, Chennai.
Shailaja Balakrishnan hails from Thalassery, Kerala and now works as a psychology teacher at a leading Chennai school. She also worked with the team of Deiva Thirumagal by giving professional advice on how people with special needs are treated and helping develop the character played by Vikram.
Now, the couple has a daughter Akshita born in 1993, and a son Dhruv born in 1997. His daughter already married Manu Ranjith, the great-grandson of M. Karunanidhi, the marriage was held on 30 October 2017.
Vikram lives near the beach in Besant Nagar, Chennai, and has stated that he would remain based in Chennai regardless of any offers in other regional films. His son Dhruv made his debut with Adithya Varma in 2019 which was the Tamil remake of the Telugu film Arjun Reddy... (source: Wikipedia)