Kollywood actor napoleon was introduced to cinema by Bharathiraja. His birth name is Kumaresan. director bharathiraja himself names the actors he introduces. When he saw napoleon like that, bharathiraja named him napoleon because the hero looked like Napoleon. That name has now become an icon for him. napoleon made his debut as a villain in Bharathiraja's Pudu Nellu Pudu Nathu and continued to play negative roles in Rajinikanth's Ejaman. Sivalapperi Pandi was the breakthrough film for napoleon who later played the hero. After this, the movie Ettupatti Rasa in which he acted made napoleon famous everywhere. In this way, the artist took Napoleon, who saw tremendous growth in a short period of time, to politics. The artist gave a chance to Napoleon, a relative of KN Nehru, who is now a DMK minister, to stand as an mla in the Villivakkam constituency in the 2001 assembly elections. napoleon won that election and became an mla and served the people of that constituency well.

Napoleon, who contested the Perambur Parliamentary Constituency and served as an MP, suddenly left cinema and politics and settled in America. The reason for this is his son Dhanush. napoleon married Jayasuda. The couple has two sons, dhanush and Kunal. The eldest son dhanush was suffering from muscular dystrophy. He went and settled in America so that he could get treatment for it. napoleon also runs an IT company in America. While working in the cinema, napoleon would get close to the cinema workers and help them. napoleon is giving immediate jobs in his IT company and good salary to the children of those who are light men in cinema and those who are make-up artists. He is also earning crores of income through this IT company. Apart from that, napoleon also owns a 3,000-acre agricultural farm in the United States. napoleon has been making good profit by harvesting various vegetables from it. There is also a cow farm. Most of the people working in Napoleon's farm are Tamils.

His home in America is an example of Napoleon's affection for his sons. It must be said that he has carefully carved that palace-like house for his son. Since his son dhanush cannot walk, he has specially arranged and built lifts for him to go freely to any part of the house. Kunal, the youngest son, is fond of playing basketball, so there is a basketball court inside the house for him. Apart from this, there is also an in-house theater for watching movies with the family. A non-drinker, napoleon buys and stacks a room full of bottles of wine for his guests.

Napoleon's household has a total of 4 luxury cars. Having bought one of his two sons a tesla car and the other a Benz car, napoleon keeps a toyota car for his own use. Apart from this, napoleon also owns a luxury van with lift facility to travel with his family. It is said that the property value of actor Napoleon, who is living the royal life of America, is more than Rs. 200 crores.