Jackie Shroff

Jackie Shroff

Actor, producer

Biography

Jai Kishan Kakubhai "Jackie" Shroff (born 1 February 1957) is an Indian actor. He has been in the Hindi cinema (Bollywood) industry for almost four decades and as of 2017 has appeared in more than 220 films in thirteen (13) languages. (Hindi, Konkani, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, and English language. He has won four Filmfare Awards among other accolades. He has also appeared in several successful short films. Shroff was born Jai Kishan Kakubhai Shroff in Mumbai, India. His father, Kakabhai Haribhai Shroff, was a Gujarati and his mother was a Turkish from Kazakhstan. In the early 1900s, his grandmother escaped to Ladakh along with her seven daughters when there was a coup in Kazakhstan. They migrated to Lahore, thence to Delhi, and finally to Bombay. His father came from a Gujarati family of merchants and traders, however they lost their money in the stock market and his father had to leave home at the age of 17. His father met his mother when both were teenagers and got married. As a youngster, he modelled in a few advertisements including Savage perfumes. It was one of his classmates in school who gave Shroff his name "Jackie" and then filmmaker Subhash Ghai stuck to this name when he launched him in the film Hero. Shroff regularly revisits his childhood home in Teen Batti. Shroff married his longtime girlfriend Ayesha Dutt, a model who later became a film producer, on her birthday, 5 June 1987. The couple run a media company Jackie Shroff Entertainment Limited. They jointly owned 10% shares in Sony TV from its launch until 2012, when they sold their stake and ended their 15-year-long association with Sony TV. They have two children, a son, Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff and daughter, Krishna.

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