Sushant Singh Rajput

Sushant Singh Rajput
Sushant Singh Rajput, 2016.
Born	(1986-01-21) 21 January 1986 (age 31) Patna, Bihar, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2008–present

Sushant Singh Rajput is an Indian film and television actor. He started his career with television serials, including an award-winning performance in the soap opera Pavitra Rishta (2009–2011) and as a participant in two dance reality shows. He then entered films with a role as one of the three male leads in the drama Kai Po Che! (2013), for which he received critical acclaim as well as three Best Male Debut awards. His other notable films since then have been as male lead of the romantic comedy Shuddh Desi Romance (2014) and as the titular detective in the thriller Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015), both of which were produced by Yash Raj Films. In 2016, Rajput appeared in Neeraj Pandey's biographical sports drama M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, in which he essayed the role of Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the film was a commercial success and earned him a unanimous critical acclaim.

Sushant Singh Rajput was born in Patna, Bihar. His ancestral village is Maldiha in Purnea district of Bihar. Sushant has four elder sisters with him being the youngest in the family.One sister lives in the US, another in Chandigarh and the other two live in Delhi. One of his sisters, Mitu Singh, is a state-level cricketer. While growing up in Patna, Sushant was very close to his mother and had a more formal relationship with his father. Her death in 2002 left Sushant devastated. This happened just after Sushant had his 12th standard exams and it was in the same year that the family moved from Patna to Delhi.