Manoj Bajpayee is an famous Indian actor. His also know as Manoj Bajpai. He was born on 23rd April 1969 in Narkatiaganj, Bihar, India. He is known for Satya (1998), Aks (2001), Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), The Family Man (2019), Ray (2021) and Farzi (2023). Apart, Manoj also will be a part of the new upcoming Indian Tv series Killer Soup (2024).
Manoj was seen alongside Akshay Kumar and Anupam Kher in the heist thriller Special 26, which was inspired by the 1987 Opera House heist. The movie went on to become a critical and commercial success. Next, he was seen in the biographical drama Aligarh, which explored the real-life story of Prof. Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras was sacked from his job after the faculty of Aligarh Muslim University find out about his homosexuality. Manoj`s moving portrayal of an unfairly persecuted man won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor that year.
In the year 2017, the method actor was signed to play the role of Ranvir Singh in the action spy-thriller Naam Shabana, which was a spin-off to the 2015 movie Baby. Subsequently, Manoj was cast alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Amit Sadh, and Yami Gautam in Sarkar 3 (2017). In the same year, he gave one of the best performances of his career in the psychological drama Gali Guleiyan (2017), which earned him a Best Actor award at the New York Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival.
In 2018, Manoj appeared in the action thriller Aiyaary alongside Sidharth Malhotra and in Baaghi 2 alongside Tiger Shroff, though both films failed to impress the critics. Besides these, he was also seen in Love Sonia (2018), where he portrayed a ruthless trafficker named Faizal.
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Other significant acting credits in recent times include the vigilante action film Satyameva Jayate (2018), the action drama Sonchiriya (2019), and the Netflix film Dhaka (2019).
Manoj’s 2020 releases include Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari and Bhonsle and also his part in the new upcoming movie Kabzaa (2023) which he plays a supporting role in the movie.
Bajpayee was married to a girl from Delhi but got divorced during his period of struggle. He met actress Shabana Raza, who is also known as Neha, right after her debut film Kareeb (1998). The couple married in 2006 and they have a daughter.