Kamal Haasan
Birthday: 1954-11-07 | Place of Birth: Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu, IndiaKamal Haasan (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian actor, filmmaker and politician, currently serving as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha for Tamil Nadu. Among the most prominent and celebrated film auteurs in modern Indian cinema, his body of work spans over 240 films across six decades in a wide array of languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Bengali. In addition to his extensive work as an actor, director, producer, screenwriter, playback singer and lyricist, he has also worked as an assistant director, choreographer, editor, make-up artist, narrator, television host, and film distributor. In 1987, he founded a literary magazine, Maiam, which he edited, while also writing over 100 poems and some books. He was conferred the Kalaimamani in 1978, the Padma Shri in 1990, the Padma Bhushan in 2014, and the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier) by the Government of France in 2016. Haasan has also won the National Film Award four times (including three for Best Actor), and is also known for having starred in the most number of films (7) submitted by India in contention for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2025, he was invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to become a member of its actors' branch.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Rangaraya Sakthivel Naicker
as Narrator
as Supreme Yaskin
as Veerasekaran Senapathy
as Karnan / Arun Kumar Vikram
as Narrator (Tamil)
as Vishwanathan / Major Wisam Ahmad Kashmiri
as CK Diwakar IRS
as Suyambulingam
as Uttaman/Manoranjan
as Vishwanathan / Major Wisam Ahmad Kashmiri
as Self
as Major Raja Mannar
as Common Man
as The Anonymous Caller
as Govindarajan Ramaswamy / Rangaraja Nambi / George W. Bush / Avtaar Singh / Balram Naidu / Christian Fletcher / Shinghen Narahasi / Krishnaveni / Vincent Poovaragavan / Kalifullah Mukhtaar
as Raghavan
as Avinasi/Avinash
as Virumaandi Thevar
as Nalla Sivam
as Pammal K. Sambandam
as Ramachandramurthy
as Nandu / Vijay kumar
as Saket Ram
as Thenali Soman
as Ramalingam
as Jaiprakash Paswan / Laxmi Godbhole
as Avvai Shanmugi / Pandiyan
as Veerasekaran Senapathy / Chandra Bose
