Disney James

Disney James was born a Roman Catholic on 21 January 1983 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is the youngest son of former bank manager James D. Plakkiyil, who hails from the Plakkiyil family, Kottayam and Tessy James, who hails from the Maliekkal Chethalan family, Chalakudy. Disney has two elder siblings, Deepa Saji and (late) Denny James. He grew up at Thekkada and at his paternal house in Nalanchira, Thiruvananthapuram, where he was greatly influenced by his grandfather, late "Mahakavi Panditaratnam Vachaspathi" Prof. P. C. Devassia.

Disney studied his KG education at Lourdes Mount School, Vattappara. After shifting to his paternal house, Disney joined Sarvodaya Vidyalaya and completed his tenth grade. He did his pre-university course at Mar Ivanios College, after which he completed his Engineering graduation (B.E) in Electrical and Electronics from St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering, Nagercoil.

Disney's parents encouraged their children to be active in extra-curricular activities. He was a regular participant in arts, literary, cultural and sports competitions throughout his school and college days and has won several prizes. The acceptance that he got while performing on stage made Disney seriously think about acting.

Disney married Misha, who is a native of Thalayolaparambu-Vaikom and belongs to Puthanangady Peruvelil family, on 27 August 2016 at Lourdes forane church, Trivandrum.

After doing couple of sales jobs in Bangalore and TV anchoring, Disney attended a walk-in-interview at Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum in 2004. He got selected and joined the Electrical and Electronics department as Lecturer. During an intercollegiate festival at MBCET, Disney performed on stage. Seeing this, his student Firoz cast him in a musical video along with actress Iniya. He did his first short film in 2005 alongside the late veteran actor Bharath Gopi. Disney started doing several musical videos, short films etc. and somehow managed both his professional and acting career. In 2007, Disney took a break and worked as Site engineer and Service engineer in Dubai (Emirates Electrical Engineering. LLC) for two years.

After coming back, he decided to take up film acting as his career. Disney acted in one scene as a gang member in a film directed by (late) Sajan Kurien in 2010. Lack of a mentor made Disney's path to mainstream cinema, more difficult. Meanwhile, he worked as a part-time news reader and anchor for Victors channel. Later that year Disney was selected for the antagonist character Kiran in the film House No.13 and faced the film camera for the first time. The film, directed by Mr. Sinu Nambiar, which also paved way for debut of actors Saju Navodaya and Hima Sankar, stopped production after the first schedule.

Disney also debuted in Tamil with the film Puthumugangal Thevai,[11] directed by Maneesh Babu. Disney went on doing low budget films both in Tamil and Malayalam, until he got to play one of the lead characters in the commercial film @Andheri. In this film he also worked as assistant director (uncredited). The crew of this movie happened to show Disney's working stills to director Jeethu Joseph, who cast him in Memories. Disney won wide acceptance for his portrayal of the terrorist in this movie.

Disney also collaborated with screenwriter Karthik Chintu and film director Arun Shekhar and worked as project manager for their Event and Film Management companies, namely Godjz Events and Arun Shekhar Film company. He started getting acting chances and both companies supported him, as he balanced work and acting.

He has attended couple of training workshops in acting conducted by Artfactory, Trivandrum and Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts & Research, Pondicherry. Also he participated in the script writing workshop conducted by Whistling Woods International Institute for Film, communication and Creative arts, Mumbai.

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Denotes films that have not yet been released

As an actor

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes	Ref
2010	House No. 13	Kiran	Sinu L.R.	Debut Movie
2012	Theruvu Nakshatrangal	Murugan	Jose Maveily		[12]
2013	Pakaram	Bilal	Sreevallabhan		[13] [14]
	Spandanam	Ravi	Jishnu Ravindran
	Memories	Terrorrist	Jeethu Joseph		[15]
	North 24 Kaatham	Railway Guard	Anil Radhakrishnan Menon		[16]
2014	@Andheri	Pappan	Biju Bhasakar Nair		[17][18]
2015	Ennum Eppozhum	Vytila Biju	Sathyan Anthikad		[19]
	Jilebi	Vijay	Arun Shekhar		[20]
	Kunjiramayanam	Kunjiraman's Neighbour	Basil Joseph
	Ennu Ninte Moideen	Prabhavathi's Husband	R. S. Vimal
	Adi Kapyare Kootamani	Ammachi's son	John Varghese
	Velutha Rathrikal	Manu	Razi Muhammed		[21]
	Kranthi	Chandran	Lenin Balakrishnan
2016	Mudhugauv	Disney the carjacker	Vipin Das
	Oru Murai Vanthu Parthaya	S.I. Benjamin G.V.	Sajan K. Mathew
2017	Jomonte Suvisheshangal	Tony	Sathyan Anthikad
	Lakshyam	Constable D. James	Anzar Khan
	Gandhinagaril Unniyarcha		Jayesh Mainagappalli
	Kalam	Thoma	Sooraj Sreedharan
2018	Velakkariyayirunnalum Neeyen Mohavalli	Karappan Unni	Govind Varaha
2019	Porinju Mariam Jose	Stephan Iype	Joshiy
	Lessons-Swargathil Oru Rathri[22][23]	Jomy James	Manoj S Nair
	Marjara Oru Kallu vacha nuna	S.I. Nazzar	Rakesh Balan
	Yuvam	S.I. Nijesh Kurian	Pinku Peter
	Savanika	Basil	Noufaz Noushad	Shoot on progress
	Thami	Raghavan Nair	K.R. Praveen
2020	Anuradha Crime No.59/2019	Martin	Shaan Thulaseedharan

As script writer

Disney James has acted in more than fifty short films. He has also worked as associate director, creative consultant, screenwriter and dubbing artist for many short films.

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Denotes shortfilms that have not yet been released

Year	Short film	Character	Director	Notes	Ref
2005	Onathidambu	Kiran	Ashok Kumar	Debut
2007	The Cross Roads	Madhavan	Firoz S
2008	Silent Fire	Ananthan	Rakesh
	Narration	Abdul Khader	Firoz S	keltron student project
2009	Duel	Hari	Muralikrishnan KJ	keltron student project
	Modus Operandi		Jishnu SS	Cinemagic team
	Last Page	an IT employee	Vipin V Pulimoottil	Keltron ATC
	The Keyboard		Vishnu Ganesh	Keltron ATC
	The Suicide Point		Ajith M Das
	Spec Ops- The Grunge	James	Suvin George
	Ithirivettom	Joseph	Santosh P.D.	Telefilm
2010	Changadom	TV reporter	Arun
	Jalarekha	A terrorist	Jishnu SS	Cinemagic team
	Silent Dark Eyes	Tribal	Rajesh Divakaran	Cannes Film festival's Short film corner	[25]
	Heaven	Tourist	Vinod Krishnan
	Virus	Lucifer	Ashish Jose Illickal
2011	Last Supper	Gangster	Shahjahan Moidunni
	The Otherside	a robber	Nahas Ibrahim and Anoop Vijayan
	India	a gang member	Anoop Nair	India's first trioscopical 3D film
	A Drop	a careless man	Firoz S
	Iniyumoru Mazhayaayi	Bhaskaran	Jishnu SS	Cinemagic team	[26]
	Offering		Nikhil Sundaram
	The Vault	Ajith	Manikandan V. Nair
	Housefull	Sivaramakrishnan	Ajimshah and Shamsir
2012	The Eclipse	Francis	Hrishy Vasudev
	Free Entry	a drug dealer	Ajmal Taj
	Extremity	Luc Martin	Ajai Rahul
	Nizhal	Psychiatrist	Nikhil Sundaram
	Mudi Azhagu	Hair stylist	Binny John	silent film black humour
2013	Art Cafe	Riyaz	Krishna Murali
	Therapist	Nikhil	Sreedevi Sadasivan		[27]
	Novelist		Firoz S.	Dubbed for Hero's friend
	Chameliyum Kaattupoovum		Ajith M. Das	dubbed for Chameli's husband
	Me too Pappa	Pappa	Manoj S Nair
2014	Pakal Mayumbol	Jeevan	Lijith Jose		[28]
	El Meido	Anthony	Firoz S	Keltron ATC/ script writer (co-written with Naji M. Baji)	[29]
	Seriya Thappa	Vinu Thomas	Firoz S	Keltron ATC/ Script writer	[30]
	Corporate	Victor	Nishant Pillai		[31]
	Unnimoolam	Mahesh	Vipin Das	Associate Director	[32]
	Apologize	Dad	Sanath Sugathan		[33]
	Burning Desire	Siddharth Menon	Harish Mohan	Best Actor
2015	KM & KM	security man	Suvith Krishna
	Mr.Saturday	Rajeev Ganeshan	Karthik Chintu		[34]
	Abhimukham	John	B Govind Raj		[35]
2016	Beloved	Professional Killer	Amal R Velayudhan		[36]
	Naliniyum Manomiyum	Artist	Amrutha Vivek	Neo Film School
	Chinsinsi	Andrew Zachariah	Rahul Ramachandran	Best Actor
2017	Inganeyum Oramma	Muhammed Riyaz	Necer Ashraf		[37]
	Uthama Geetham	Sandeep	Swaroop Ilamon		[38]
	Kalki		Harish Mohan	dubbed for flat owner
2018	Oakhi	Fisherman	Shibu Thirumala
	Driving with your Dad	Dad	Sachin Sanal
	Men at My Door	P. Divaker	Vinay Krishnan		[39]
2019	The Autopsy	Dr.George Idiculla	Nithin Pulimoottil
	Sunilinte swantham Appoos	Sunil	Pradeep
	Yeti/Big Foot	girl's father	Rohit Rajan
2020	Pause	Disney James	Tijo Jose
	Neelakashavum Tharakalum	Edwin	Leo Vijayan

During the initial phase of his acting career, Disney joined Theater of Good hope, Trivandrum and explored the possibility of voice modulation and smooth transition of expression under the guidance of veteran actor and theater personal P.A.M. Rashid. Also he underwent training in physical expression and improvisation on stage from another Veteran actor Surjith Sumathi Gopinath, Thrissur.

As actor

As associate director

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