Jackie Shroff, veteran Indian actor, born on February 1, 1960, into a Gujarati family, in Mumbai. Jackie has appeared in over 200 films in just the Hindi language, and films in eleven other Indian languages. Jackie played the hero in the ’80s and ’90s, and many character roles from the 2000’s to the present. Jackie made his debut in the movie “Swami Dada”, starring and directed by Dev Anand in 1982. In 1983, director and producer Subhash Ghai launched Jackie as the lead in his film “Hero”. In 1988, he won his first Filmfare Best Actor Award for Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s cult classic “Parinda”. Some of his best-known films are: ‘Khalnayak’ (1994), ‘1942-A Love Story’ (1995), winning a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, ‘Rangeela’ (1996), ‘Mission Kashmir’ (2001), ‘Devdas’ (2003), and ‘Happy New Year’ (2014). Jackie also has a Filmfare Award for Best Actor in a Short Film for ‘Khujli’. In 2019, Jackie appeared in supporting roles in Hindi and regional films such as Salman Khan’s ‘Bharat’, ‘Kantaar’, a Konkani film, ‘The Devil’s Daughter’, an Indian Iranian film, ‘Saaho’, Telugu/Hindi/Tamil, and ‘Bigil’, a Tamil film. In 2020, Jackie appeared with his son, Tiger, in ‘Baaghi 3’. He has appearances films held up because of the pandemic: ‘Sooryavanshi’, ‘Radhe’, and ‘Mumbai Saga’. He and his wife, Ayesha, own Jackie Shroff Entertainment Limited. They have two children, a daughter Krishna, and Tiger who made his acting debut in “Heropanti” (2014), a remake of his father’s film “Hero”.