Kunal Kapoor (born 26 June 1959)

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is an Indian actor, film producer, director and advertisement maker. Elder son of actors

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and Jennifer Kendal, he made his debut with the 1972 English-language film '' Siddhartha'', later acted in

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's '' Junoon'' and in his first mainstream

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film, '' Ahista Ahista'', opposite

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as well as '' Vijeta''. He also acted in the art films '' Utsav'' (1984) and '' Trikal'' (1985). In 1987, he stopped acting after ''Trikal'' to set up his own company, Adfilm-Valas, to produce and direct television commercials. Adfilm Valas has also line-produced for many international feature films and ad films shot in India. Notably, the credit sequence of the film ''

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'', and the French films (2005) and ''Fire in Paradise''. In 2015, he returned to films after 30 years, appearing in '' Singh is Bling'' as

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's character's father.

Personal life

Kunal Kapoor was born into the famous Kapoor family, of Indian cinema. He is the eldest child of

and his British theater-actress wife Jennifer Kapoor. His paternal grandfather,

Prithviraj Kapoor Prithviraj Kapoor (born Prithvinath Kapoor; 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was an Indian actor who is also considered to be one of the founding figures of Hindi cinema. He was associated with IPTA as one of its founding members and establish ...

, was a doyen of the theatre, a pioneer of the Indian film industry. His maternal grandfather, Geoffrey Kendal, was a British theatre personality Kapoor's siblings are Karan Kapoor (b. 18 January 1962) and Sanjana Kapoor (b. 27 November 1967). Karan, a popular model who also worked in a few films in the 1980s, now runs a photography business in the UK. Sanjana ran the ancestral

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and is married to Valmik Thapar, a noted conservationist. Kunal was married to filmmaker

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's daughter Sheena, who is a well-known photographer. They have two children together, a son named Zahan Prithviraj Kapoor, and a daughter. Kunal and Sheena are now divorced.Meet the Kapoors

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Filmography

Actor

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kapoor, Kunal Indian male film actors Indian people of English descent Living people Male actors in Hindi cinema Kunal Kunal Kapoor 1959 births Anglo-Indian people