Bollywood Home » Popular Male Actors in Bollywood » Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar, one of the most popular male actors in Bollywood was born on on September 9, 1967 with the name of Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia. His movies in the 90s were also power packed with and so he was better known as Bollywood's action hero. Some of his noted action films are Khiladi, Mohra and Sabse Bada Khiladi. Akshay Kumar also played many romantic roles and some of the noteworthy ones amongst them are Yeh Dillagi, Dhadkan and Ek Rishtaa. To know more about Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar read on.

One of the best things about Akshay Kumar is that he is a multi faceted actor, who can perfectly fit into any role effortlessly and this is one of the other reasons of his ever growing popularity. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Villain for the movie Ajnabee. His comic roles in Hera Pheri, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Garam Masala and Jaan-E-Mann earned him several prestigious awards, nominations and a lot of praise from the audiences and critics.



He was initially in Delhi before he moved to Amritsar and did schooling from Don Basco and the joined the Khalsa College where he actively took part in sports. He specialized in martial arts in Bangkok where he worked as a chef. He was discovered by producer Pramod Chakravarthy and was landed with a film called Deedar. However he soared to heights with his Khiladi series of movies and later also did many successful romantic and comic movies.



Bollywood actor- Akshay Kumar has been honored with many awards and nominations for different kinds of roles. His latest realeases Bhagam Bhag and Namastey London are also great hits. He is an active stage performer and has performed on many major events. He shares his married life with one time actress Twinkle Khanna and the couple have son named Araav.