Prakash Raj
Birthday: 1965-03-26 | Place of Birth: Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaPrakash Raj is a polyglot Indian film actor, film director, producer, thespian and television presenter who is known for his works in the South Indian film industry, and a few Bollywood films.[. After working in the Kannada television industry and Kannada cinema for a few years, he made his debut in Tamil cinema through Duet (1994) by K. Balachander and has since been a commercially successful film star in Tamil. In remembrance, he named his production company Duet Movies. Apart from his mother tongue Kannada, Prakash's fluency in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi and English has placed him among the most sought after actors in Indian cinema. He has played a variety of roles, most notably as the antagonist and, of late, as a character actor. Prakash, as an actor has won a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998 for Mani Ratnam's Iruvar and a National Film Award for Best Actor in 2009 for his role in Kanchivaram, a Tamil film directed by Priyadarshan, and as a producer has won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada for Puttakkana Highway directed by his long-time theatre friend B.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Consultant Rao
as Elder Venkatesan
as Moorty Sahay
as N Rajasekharan IAS
as Unnikrishnan
as Vadraj Kumar Subramaniam
as Gurudev Deshmukh
as Jaypal Reddy
as Lawyer Venu Gopal
as Nandaji
as Nattadurai
as Nithyanand
as Paarirajan
as Pattabhi Ramayya
as Perumalsamy
as ACP Ashok
as Nagendra Reddy
as Dora Swamy Naidu
as Dr. Inayat Ali Khan
as Ramalingam
as Rishi's Father
as Venugopal Seshadri
