Aditya Roy Kapoor
| Aditya Roy Kapur | |
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Kapur in 2013
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| Born |
16 November 1985 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Occupation | Actor, VJ |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Relatives | See Roy Kapur family |
Aditya Roy Kapur (pronounced [ədiːtjə roj kəˈpuːr]; born 16 November 1985) is an Indian film actor who works in Hindi films. After a brief career as a VJ on Channel V, he made his film debut with a minor role in London Dreams (2009) and followed it by playing supporting roles in Action Replayy (2010) and Guzaarish (2010). He rose to prominence in 2013 by playing the male lead in the highly successful romantic drama Aashiqui 2 and a supporting role in the coming-of-age romance Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, both of which ranked among the highest-grossing Bollywood films of the year.
Aditya Roy Kapur was born in Mumbai on 16 November 1985 and he lived in US for 10 years, to a Punjabi Hindu father and an Indian Jewish mother, Salome Roy Kapur nee Aaron. Kapur is the youngest of the three siblings, his eldest brother Siddharth Roy Kapur is the Chief Executive Officer of UTV Motion Pictures, who had married actress Vidya Balan and his second elder brother Kunaal Roy Kapur is also an actor.
His grandfather, Raghupat Roy Kapur was a film producer and his maternal grandparents, Sam and Ruby Aaron were qualified dance teachers, who introduced the Sama dance to India. He did his schooling from G. D. Somani Memorial School, in Cuffe Parade, Mumbai, where all his siblings studied and where his mother directed school plays. Subsequently, he graduated from St. Xavier's College.
Kapur is not a trained actor, though he has taken dance lessons and also diction classes to improve his Hindi accent. According to him he "had no burning ambition to become an actor," and was content being a VJ, until he was called to audition for London Dreams. During his school years, he wanted to be a cricketer but he quit cricket coaching classes after sixth standard.
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