Rajkummar Rao

Rajkummar Rao is the rare actor who treats genre as a playground rather than a cage. A National Film Award, multiple Filmfare wins, and over thirty films spanning indie character studies and crowd-pleasers like Stree: that breadth tells me he chases the role, not the spotlight. Hindi cinema is often caricatured abroad as song and spectacle, but Rao keeps reminding everyone that the bedrock is performance. What interests me most is his discipline; he disappears into ordinary, flawed men and makes them magnetic. I see a patient, ambitious craftsman who has built a career on substance, and I suspect his best work is still ahead.

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Name (English)

Rajkummar Rao

Name (Japanese)

ラージクマール・ラーウ

Reading

らーじくまーる・らーう

Born

August 31, 1984 (age 42)

Origin

Gurgaon, Gurugram district, India

Height

178 cm

Occupation

film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rat

University

University of Delhi

Awards & achievements

• Filmfare Awards
• National Film Award for Best Actor

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajkummar%20Rao
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AF%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7285367

Tags

• Gurugram district
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.