Abhishek Ambareesh (born 3 October 1992) is an Indian actor who has worked predominantly in

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

language films. The son of actors-politicians

Ambareesh Malavalli Huchchegowda Amarnath (29 May 1952 – 24 November 2018), known by his screen name Ambareesh, was an Indian actor, media personality, politician from the state of Karnataka. Alongside Rajkumar and Vishnuvardhan, he is counted ...

and

Sumalatha Sumalatha Ambareesh (born 27 August 1963) is an Indian actress and politician. She has acted in over 220 films across multiple languages, primarily in Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada, with a few appearances in Tamil and Hindi cinema. She received ...

, Abhishek made his debut as a lead actor in the romantic action film, '' Amar'' (2019) for which he won the SIIMA Award for Best Male Debut.

Personal life

Abhishek was born to

and

Bangalore Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...

. Abhishek completed his master's degree in International Relations and Democratic Politics from a university in the UK. He married Aviva Bidapa, an entrepreneur, in 2023.

Career

Abhishek appeared in his first lead role in the romantic action film '' Amar'' (2019) directed by

Nagashekar Nagashekar is an Indian screenplay writer, writer, film director, film actor, actor and film producer, producer primarily working in Kannada cinema. Starting his career as an actor in ''Ninagagi'' (2002), he went on to feature in supporting rol ...

and paired with actress

Tanya Hope Tanya Hope is an Indian actress and model who acts in Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil films. Hope started modeling and became Miss India Kolkata 2015. She was a finalist of Femina Miss India 2015. She debuted in 2016 with the Telugu film '' Appatlo ...

. The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences alike and performed best at the box office. Sunayana Suresh from ''

The Times of India ''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation an ...

'' reviewed the film expressing that "Abishek Ambareesh shows he has the pedigree and promise to be someone, for he has good screen presence". In 2023, Abhishek's next release was the Duniya Suri directorial action thriller ''Bad Manners''.

Filmography

*''All films are in Kannada, unless otherwise noted.''

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ambareesh, Abhishek Living people Male actors from Bengaluru Kannada male actors Filmfare Awards South winners Male actors in Kannada cinema 21st-century Indian male actors 1993 births