Key facts
- Born
- 7 November 1954, Paramakudi
- State of birth
- Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu
- Sector
- Actors
- Profession
- Indian actor, activist and joker (born 1954 )
- Gender
- Male
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Biography
Kamal Haasan is an Indian actor, filmmaker and politician, currently serving as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha for Tamil Nadu. He is an actor, director, producer, screenwriter, playback singer and lyricist who works primarily in Tamil cinema. He has also worked as an assistant director, choreographer, editor, make-up artist, narrator, television host, and a distributor of films. He founded a magazine, Maiam, which he edited, and has written over 100 poems and some books. He has made over 230 films in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Bengali. 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. He was invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2025 to become a member of its actors' branch.
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Timeline
- 1954Born in Paramakudi
- 1983Awarded the National Film Award for Best Actor
- 1988Awarded the National Film Award for Best Actor
- 1990Awarded the Padma Shri in arts
- 1997Awarded the National Film Award for Best Actor
- 2014Awarded the Padma Bhushan
- 2016Awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Sources & licences
- English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- हिंदी विकिपीडिया (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- Wikidata (CC0) · 3/5
- Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) · Bollywood Hungama