Jackie Shroff

Jaikishan Kakubhai Shroff (born 1 February 1957), known by his screen name Jackie Shroff, is an Indian actor and former model from Mumbai, Maharashtra, who primarily works in the Hindi film industry. In a career spanning over four decades, he has appeared in 250 films in 13 languages. He has received several accolades including four Filmfare Awards.

After an uncredited small appearance in Swami Dada (1982), Shroff made his lead debut with Subhash Ghai's blockbuster actioner Hero (1983), which made him an overnight star. He went onto establish himself as an actor with top-grossing films, almost every year in the 1980s and 1990s, such as Teri Meherbaniyan, Aaj Ka Daur (both 1985), Karma (1986), Ram Lakhan, Tridev (both 1989), Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri (1990), Izzat (1991), Khalnayak (1993), Rangeela (1995), Agni Sakshi (1996), Border (1997) and Bandhan (1998). He won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor for Parinda (1989) and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1942: A Love Story and Rangeela.

In the 2000s, Shroff took on more supporting and negative roles in Refugee, Mission Kashmir (both 2000), Devdas (2002), Hulchul (2004), Bhagam Bhag, Apna Sapna Money Money (both 2006), Dhoom 3 (2013), Happy New Year (2014), Housefull 3 (2016), Bharat (2019), and Sooryavanshi (2021). Shroff has worked in films of other languages including Punjabi film Sardar Saab, Konkani film Soul Curry (both 2017), Tamil films Bigil (2019), Jailer (2023) and Telugu film Saaho (2019).

In addition to his acting career, Shroff is an environmentalist. He is married to model and producer Ayesha Dutt, with whom he has two children, actor Tiger Shroff and entrepreneur Krishna Shroff.