Arunoday Singh

Arunoday Singh
Singh at Jism 2 premiere in 2012
Born	(1983-02-17) 17 February 1983 (age 33) Sidhi, Sidhi District, Madhya Pradesh, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2009–present
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)

Arunoday Singh (born 17 February 1983) is an Indian film actor. His debut movie was Sikandar (2009). Singh has appeared in Sudhir Mishra's Yeh Saali Zindagi (2011), Pooja Bhatt's Jism 2 (2012), and more recently in David Dhawan's Main Tera Hero (2014), "Mohenjo Daro" (2016) and thriller film Pizza.

Arunoday was born on 17 February 1983 in a Hindu Rajput family based in Churhat in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh, India. He is the grandson of Arjun Singh, an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

He is an alumnus of Brandeis University, having previously been educated at a boarding school at Kodaikanal, where he performed in school plays. According to him, it was after watching actor Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954) that he decided to become an actor. After his graduation, he did a few courses in the New York Film Academy, and thereafter enrolled in the Acting Studio in New York, during the period he also performed in plays.

After finishing his studies he started giving auditions, and finally made his debut with Sikandar (2009), directed by Piyush Jha, playing a Kashmiri freedom fighter. His second film was Anil Kapoor's home production Aisha (2010), an adaptation of the novel, Emma by Jane Austen, with Sonam Kapoor. Also in the same year, he appeared in Vinay Shukla's take on Gender and sexuality in Mirch through a collage of five stories, with Raima Sen and Konkana Sharma, where he played the central character of a struggling film director. On December 13th 2016 he tied knot to Lee Elton, who he met 3 years ago in Goa, Lee owns a cafe in Goa.