Kangana Ranaut

Acting

Kangana Ranaut

Born 1987-03-20 · Bhambla, Himachal Pradesh, India

Kangana Ranaut is an Indian film actress. She has established a career in Bollywood and is one of the highest-paid actresses in India. Ranaut is particularly known in the media for expressing her honest opinions in public and is frequently credited as one of the most fashionable Indian celebrities. She is the recipient of several awards, including three National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards in four categories. Ranaut made her feature film debut in the 2006 thriller Gangster, for which she was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She received praise for portraying emotionally intense characters in the dramas Woh Lamhe (2006), Life in a... Metro (2007) and Fashion (2008). For the last of these, she won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Filmfare Award in the same category. In 2015, Ranaut portrayed a dual role in Tanu Weds Manu Returns, the most successful Bollywood film featuring a female protagonist, for which she won a Filmfare Critics Award and a second consecutive National Film Award for Best Actress.

Acting credits

Emergency poster
4.8

Based on true events that unfolded in 1975, the film chronicles incidents that took place under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, one of the most powerful women in Indian history.

Emergency

2025

Krrish 3 poster
5.6

Krrish and his father must team up to save the world from a psychokinetic evil man named Kaal and his army of mutants.

Krrish 3

2013

Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata poster
6.0

Inside Cama Hospital, one of the sites targeted during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, nurses, ward boys, cleaners, lift operators, security personnel, and administrative workers keep 400 people alive while armed assailants struck the city around them.

Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata

2026

Kites poster
7.2

A wounded man searches for his sweetheart in the Mexican desert while on the run from the police, bounty hunters, and others.

Kites

2010

Dhaam Dhoom poster
4.2

A brilliant medical practitioner finds himself at the centre of a murder plot after taking the daughter of a Russian Police Commissioner back to his hotel room.

Dhaam Dhoom

2008

Queen poster
7.3

Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.

Queen

2014

Gangster poster
6.8

An alcoholic barmaid is distraught when her former lover, a notorious gangster, re-enters her life. She is forced to relive painful past experiences and choose between the gangster and a pleasant singer she has found comfort in.

Gangster

2006

Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi poster
6.5

Story of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resistance to the British Rule.

Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi

2019

Rangoon poster
6.1

Julia travels to the Indo-Burma border to perform for the troops during the World War II, on the insistence of Billimoria, her lover. She finds herself in love with Jemadar Malik, a soldier there.

Rangoon

2017

Woh Lamhe poster
5.4

Based upon the life of actress Parveen Babi, this film describes the life of a schizophrenic actress Sana Azim, and the love of her life - Aditya Garewal.

Woh Lamhe

2006

Raaz: The Mystery Continues... poster
5.5

An artist comes to realize that the woman he has been been painting is real and is being haunted by a ghost.

Raaz: The Mystery Continues...

2009

Tezz poster
4.1

To avenge his past, Aakash Rana plants bomb in a train endangering lives of 500 passengers.

Tezz

2012

Life in a Metro poster
6.4

A group of Mumbai up-and-comers search for love and struggle for success in this ensemble drama that centers on an eager young call centre executive.

Life in a Metro

2007

Ungli poster
5.7

When a corrupt judicial system lets a drunken driver off scott-free, four gym friends become vigilantes to avenge the death of their trainer.

Ungli

2014

Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai poster
6.7

A tale of two gangsters from the eras of past and present, whose lives enter parallel paths as they struggle to survive within Bombay's criminal underworld.

Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai

2010

Game poster
5.8

Four strangers are invited by the reclusive Kabir Malhotra, to his private island of Samos, Greece. They don't know each other and they don't know him ... and by the next morning they will wish they had never come.

Game

2011

Fashion poster
6.4

A small-town girl finally realizes her dream of becoming a famous supermodel but soon finds out that there's a price for her glamorous new life.

Fashion

2008

Chandramukhi 2 poster
3.2

A wealthy family moves into the Vettaiyapuram palace to renovate their ancestral temple and perform a pooja, unaware of that it will reawaken the feud between a classical dancer, Chandramukhi and Vettaiyan Raja from centuries ago.

Chandramukhi 2

2023

Tanu Weds Manu poster
6.7

Manu comes to India to find a bride for himself and falls for Tanu at first sight but she is a free spirited girl has no plans of marrying him.

Tanu Weds Manu

2011

Ek Niranjan poster
5.1

A bounty hunter searches for the family he was separated from as a child, and falls in love with the sister of a gang member.

Ek Niranjan

2009

No Problem poster
4.1

Two friends, who are crooks, rob a bank and the bank manager is accused of being an accomplice. The manager sets out to prove his innocence and bust the duo.

No Problem

2010

Ready poster
5.0

Prem believes Sanjana is the girl chosen by his dad and falls in love with her. However, she is a runaway bride escaping from a marriage set up by her mafia uncles against her wishes. On learning the truth, he devises a plan to win her over from her uncles who intend to usurp her huge inheritance.

Ready

2011

Dhaakad poster
4.7

Special Agent Agni is tasked to find information and eventually, eliminate Rudraveer, an international human trafficker and a coal mafioso. Things turn personal when Agni discovers a truth that connects her to Rudraveer.

Dhaakad

2022

Double Dhamaal poster
4.6

Four slackers decide to avenge their humiliation at the hands of a con-man.

Double Dhamaal

2011

Behind the camera