Suraj Sharma

Suraj Sharma

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Suraj Sharma Profile

  • Name:
  • Suraj Sharma
  • Born:
  • March 21, 1993

Suraj Sharma Biography

Suraj Sharma is an actor of Indian origin, best known for playing the male protagonist in Academy award winning movie - Life of Pi (2012). Alongside a list of Indian actors like Irrfan Khan,Tabu and Adil Hussain, he was seen in the title role of the movie, which bagged numerous international awards at various award functions. The movie was an adapted screenplay written by David Magee, where the central character Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel was seen at 4 different stages of life. Suraj portrayed the 16 year old male protagonist in the movie. Life of Pi was his debut movie too.

 

Suraj Sharma was born in New Delhi in 1993. His father is a software engineer and his mother is an economist. He schooled at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya School, where he remained a popular student. Born in a non-filmy background with little experiences in acting, he attended the auditions for ‘Life of Pi’ directed by Ang Lee. He went through different rounds of the auditions. His expressive eyes and innocent appearance appealed film director a lot and highly impressed by these factors, he was selected for the lead role.

 

He completed graduation in Philosophy at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He was doing his graduation while selected for the role. Now he is a bit serious with a career in films and currently pursues Mass Communication course at New York University. He is interested in film making. Most recently he appeared in 2014 American biographical sports drama film, Million Dollar Arm directed by Craig Gillespie. In this movie he appeared aside Hollywood actors like Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi and Bill Paxton. The movie was released in May 2014.

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Updated: June 24, 2014

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