Known For: Indian stand-up comedian and TV host (born 1981)
Category: Comedians
Occupation: comedian, singer, actor
Country: India
City: Amritsar
Date of Birth: Tuesday, 06 November 1979
Kapil Sharma is an Indian stand-up comedian, television host, actor, dubbing artist, producer and singer. Sharma is the host on the stand-up comedy and talk show The Great Indian Kapil Show and The Kapil Sharma Show and has received five Indian Television Academy Awards.
BirthPlace | Amritsar |
Awards | Q5013123 |
Spouses | Ginni Chatrath |
Wikipedia | Kapil_Sharma |
Sharma was born in a Punjabi family in the city of Amritsar in Punjab, India as Kapil Punj. His father Jeetendra Kumar Punj was a head constable in Punjab Police, while his mother Janak Rani is a homemaker. His father was diagnosed with cancer in 1997 and died in 2004 at AIIMS in Delhi. He studied at Shri Ram Ashram Senior Secondary School and Hindu College, in Amritsar. He is featured in the list of prominent alumni of Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar. Sharma has a brother named Ashok Kumar Sharma, who is a police constable and a sister named Pooja Pawan Devgan. Sharma married Ginni Chatrath in Jalandhar on 12 December 2018. They have two children – a daughter and a son.