Nawazuddin Siddiqui is an Indian film actor, born on 19 May 1974 in Budhana, a small town and tehsil in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh. Siddiqui made his Bollywood debut in 1999, with a small role in Aamir Khan starrer, Sarfarosh. Later he apprared in few other small roles. His appearance in Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday (2007) paved way for other powerful roles. It was his role of a journalist in Aamir Khan Productions’s Peepli Live (2010), that first got him recognition as an actor. He became a household name post Kahaani (2012), where he played the archetypal short-tempered intelligence officer Khan. Anurag Kashyap’s gangster epic Gangs of Wasseypur followed which furthered his fame. In 2015, Siddiqui’s films Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Manjhi – The Mountain Man released and he was praised for his roles.