# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/girish-kulkarni
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:15:50.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/girish-kulkarni"
name: "Girish Kulkarni"
slug: "girish-kulkarni"
description: "Girish Pandurang Kulkarni is an Indian actor, writer, and producer. He is a recipient of two National Film Awards namely, National Film Award for Best Actor in 2011 for his performance in Deool and National Film Award for Best Screenplay for the same film. He is well known for Marathi films such as Valu, Vihir, Deool, Gabhricha Paus and Jaundya Na Balasaheb. He is known to Hindi audiences for his role in the Aamir Khan starrer Dangal and Anurag Kashyap's movie Ugly. He received acclaim for his portrayal of gangster 'Appa' in the 2017 Marathi crime thriller Faster Fene opposite Amey Wagh. He also starred in India's first Netflix original series Sacred Games as the Maharashtra home minister Bipin Bhosale character."
tagline: "Actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Girish_Kulkarni_at_Masala_Premier.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1977-11-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.310669333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2971390/"
    handle:    "nm2971390"
sources:
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    title: "جيريش كولكارنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "گیریش کولکارنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "기리시 쿨카니"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ഗിരീഷ് കുൽക്കർണി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "గిరీశ్ కులకర్ణి"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/587090"
    title: "Girish Kulkarni"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump