Jackie Shroff

Jackie Shroff

CountryIndia India
GenderMale
BirthdayFeb 1, 1957
BiographyJaikishan Kakubhai Shroff (born 1 February 1957), known by his screen name Jackie Shroff, is an Indian actor and former model from Mumbai, Maharashtra, who primarily works in the Hindi film industry. In a career spanning over four decades, he has appeared in 250 films in 13 languages. He has received several accolades including four Filmfare Awards. Shroff established himself as one of the leading actors of Indian cinema in the 1980s and the 1990s.

After an uncredited small appearance in Swami Dada (1982), Shroff made his lead debut with Subhash Ghai's blockbuster actioner Hero (1983), which made him an overnight star. He went onto establish himself as an actor with hit films, almost every year in 1980s and 90s and went to win the Filmfare Award for Best Actor for Parinda. His other critical and commercial successes, include Tridev (1989), Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri (1990), Angaar (1992), Khalnayak (1993), Rangeela (1995), Agni Sakshi (1996), Border (1997) and Bandhan (1998).

In the 2000s, Shroff took on more supporting and negative roles in Refugee, Mission Kashmir (both 2000), Devdas (2002), Hulchul (2004), Dhoom 3 (2013), Happy New Year (2014), and Sooryavanshi (2021). Shroff has worked in films of other languages including Punjabi film Sardar Saab (2017), Konkani film Soul Curry (2017), Tamil films Bigil (2019), Jailer (2023) and Telugu film Saaho (2019).

In addition to his acting career, Shroff is an environmentalist. He is married to model and producer Ayesha Dutt, with whom he has two children, actor Tiger Shroff and entrepreneur Krishna Shroff.

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