Tottempudi Gopichand (born 12 June 1979), more popularly known as Gopichand, is a Telugu film actor.He is a news reader in ETV before he was into films. He is the younger son of the filmmaker T. Krishna and started his career with Tholi Valapu as the main lead.native place is karumanchi village in prakasam district.

 

He was 8 years old when his father T. Krishna died. He completed his studies in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He studied engineering degree in Russia. He was not interested in films and acting at that time.

 

His elder brother T. Premchand was working as an associate director to Mutyala Subbayya. Premchand made his debut as director and started working on a film under his home banner, but he died in a car accident. Gopichand was in Russia during the death of his brother and could not attend his funeral due to Visa problems. He also has a sister, who is a dentist.

 

He decided to enter the film industry. After completing his engineering, he did dialogue modulation course for a year. Then he made his debut as hero with the Telugu movie Tholi Valapu.