DOB: 24/12/1959
Awards:
Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for MAshaal (1984) Filmfare Best Actor Award (Tezaab (1988) Filmfare Best Actor Award for Beta (1992) Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance for Virasat (1997) Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Taal (1999) National Film Award for Best Actor for Pukar (2000)
Notes:
Anil Kapoor comes from a film oriented family. His father Surinder Kapoor was the secretary of veteran actor Shammi Kapoor before becoming a film producer. Anil's elder brother, Boney Kapoor, is a film producer and younger brother Sanjay Kapoor is an actor. Boney's wife Sridevi and Anil starred in many hit films together. His sister Reena is married to Sandeep Marwah of the Marwah Films & Video Studios in Noida Film City. In 1984 he married Sunita Kapoor. The couple has two daughters and a son. Kapoor's daughter, Sonam Kapoor recently made her debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya (2007) opposite Rishi Kapoor's son, Ranbir Kapoor. His other daughter Rhea is studying in New York while his son Harshvardhan is currently in school. Both Harsh and Rhea are interested in pursuing a career in films. Rhea is doing a two year course in New York that covers the the entire gamut of filmmaking. Harshvardhan is learning cinematography.. and he also wants to do screenplay writing. Kapoor made his Bollywood debut with Umesh Mehra's Hamare Tumhare (1979) in a supporting role. He got his first leading role in Woh Saat Din (1983).
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