Biography
Rajkummar Rao is an Indian actor who works primarily in Hindi cinema. Born Raj Kumar Yadav on 31 August 1984 in Gurgaon, Haryana, he trained at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune before moving to Mumbai.
He made his film debut in the 2010 anthology Love Sex Aur Dhokha. Rao gained prominence with roles in Kai Po Che! (2013) and as Shahid Azmi in Shahid (2013), for which he received the National Film Award for Best Actor. Other notable performances include Queen (2014), Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017), Newton (2017), Stree (2018), Ludo (2020) and The White Tiger (2021), in which he played Ashok. He has won multiple Filmfare Awards.
