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Date of Birth: 7 November 1954
Birth Place: Paramakudi, Madras State
Occupation: Actor, Director, Producer
Debut Film: Kalathur Kannamma
Spouse: Vani Ganapathy (1978–1985—divorced), Sarika Thakur (1985–2004—divorced)
Superstar Kamal Haasan was born in the town of Paramakudi in the Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu, to a criminal lawyer named D. Srinivasan and his wife Rajalakshmi. He was the youngest of four children, the others being Charuhasan, Chandrahasan and Nalini Raghu.
He made his film debut as a 6-year-old child artiste, in the 1960 film, Kalathur Kannamma, which won him the National Film Award for Best Child Artist. He acted as a child actor in five other Tamil films in the subsequent few years. Following a nine year hiatus from films, to concentrate on his education, he returned with a series of low budget films in 1972, in all of which he played supporting roles to more established actors. These films included roles in Arangetram and Sollathaan Ninaikkiren.
He first received a regional Filmfare Award for acting for his role in the Malayalam film Kanyakumari (1974). In the next four years, he won six regional Best Actor Filmfare Awards, including four consecutive Best Tamil Actor Awards.
In 2013, he produced Vishwaroopam which is a blockbuster hit at box-office. He has starred in nearly 200 films in the major Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. In addition to acting and directing, he is a screenwriter, lyricist, playback singer and choreographer. His film production company, Rajkamal International and has produced several of his films.
