Abhay Sankar was born and brought up in Kerala. He is a postgraduate in structural engineering from VIT university, Vellore and works in a reputed construction giant L&T. He started his acting career in his school days through stage dramas in Malayalam & English. Abhay is from the veteran south Indian actress Urvashi's family. He is trained in classical music & he was passionate about modelling & was a member of the modelling team since his college days. He is a passionate singer too who had a team orchestra band in his college days. He initiated his movie acting career through short films. Yosi /time to think is his hero debut in the Tamil & Malayalam film industry. He has signed for lead role in other two Tamil commercial movies which are in progress, out of which one of them is a crime thriller written by Abhay Sankar itself.