Vicky Kaushal Height Weight Age Body Statistics Biography

Vicky Kaushal Height Weight Age Biography Family Wiki Net Worth, Affairs, Marriage & much more. Vicky Kaushal (born 16 May 1988) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. He is the recipient of a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award, and has appeared in Forbes India’s Celebrity 100 list of 2019 and was featured in their 30 Under 30 list of 2018.

Born to the action director Sham Kaushal and Veena Kaushal, Vicky pursued an engineering degree from the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology. Aspiring to take up a career in film, he assisted Anurag Kashyap in the crime drama Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) and went on to play minor roles in two of Kashyap’s productions. His first leading role was in the independent drama Masaan (2015), which earned him the IIFA and Screen Awards for Best Male Debut, following which he starred as an unhinged cop in Kashyap’s psychological thriller Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016).

Kaushal rose to prominence in 2018 with supporting roles in Raazi and Sanju, two of the highest-grossing Hindi films of the year. For the latter, he won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. His 2018 projects also included starring roles in the Netflix films Love Per Square Foot and Lust Stories. The following year, he played the lead role of a military officer in both critically acclaimed and commercially successful action film Uri: The Surgical Strike, winning the National Film Award for Best Actor, in addition to a Filmfare Award for Best Actor nomination. Guarded about his personal life, he is married to actress Katrina Kaif.

Early life

Kaushal was born on 16 May 1988 in a suburban Chawl in Mumbai to Sham Kaushal, a stuntman and subsequent action director in Hindi films and Veena Kaushal. His younger brother, Sunny, is also an actor. His family is Punjabi Hindu. Kaushal has described himself as a “regular kid who was interested in studying, playing cricket and watching movies”. His parents were keen on their son having a stable career and thus, Kaushal pursued an engineering degree in electronics and telecommunications from Mumbai’s Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology. During an industrial visit to an IT company, he realized that an office job would be unsuitable for him and began aspiring to have a career in film. He briefly took on an engineering job and began accompanying his father to film sets.

He studied acting at Kishore Namit Kapoor’s academy and worked as an assistant director to Anurag Kashyap in the two-part crime drama Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). Kaushal has described fond memories of working with Kashyap, whom he considers as his mentor. He also began working on stage with his first acting job in Manav Kaul’s production of Laal Pencil. In the film, Kaushal played minor roles in Kashyap’s productions Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (2012) and Bombay Velvet (2015), and the experimental short film Geek Out (2013).

Personal life

Kaushal dated actress Harleen Sethi for a brief period. They broke up in early 2019.

Kaushal has been guarded about discussing his personal life. He and actress Katrina Kaif got married on 9 December 2021 at Six Senses Resort, Fort Barwara in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan after dating for almost two years.