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name: "Pankaj Tripathi"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "5 September 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:15:25.272346+00:00"
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# Pankaj Tripathi

Actor. Born 5 September 1976 in Belsand, Bihar, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 September 1976, Belsand, Bihar, India
- **Also known as:** पंकज त्रिपाठी

## Biography

Pankaj Tripathi is an Indian actor who works primarily in Hindi films and television. He trained at the National School of Drama in Delhi, graduating in 2004, after earlier studies at the Institute of Hotel Management in Hajipur.

Tripathi first appeared in minor film roles in the mid-2000s. His breakthrough came with the supporting part of Sultan Qureshi in *Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1* (2012). He has since appeared in films including *Masaan* (2015), *Bareilly Ki Barfi* (2017), *Newton* (2017) and *Stree* (2018), and in series such as *Sacred Games* (2018) and *Mirzapur* (2018). For his work in *Newton*, he received a National Film Award – Special Mention.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1* (2012), Fi1m 83, as Sultan Qureshi — [page](https://film.one/film/gangs-of-wasseypur-part-1.md)

## Also known for

- *Extraction* (2020), Ovi Mahajan Sr.
- *Dilwale* (2015), Anwar
- *Sacred Games* (2018), Guruji
- *Masaan* (2015), Sadhya Ji
- *Stree* (2018), Rudra
- *Bareilly Ki Barfi* (2017), Narottam Mishra
- *Mirzapur* (2018), Akhandanand 'Kaleen' Tripathi
- *Agneepath* (2012), Surya

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