Kichcha Sudeep or Sudeep, is an Indian film actor, screenwriter, producer, director, singer, and TV presenter who was born in Shimoga in Karnataka in 1973. He primarily works in Kannada language films but has also appeared in Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil language films. He began his acting career in the Kannada film Thayavva (1997) before making his Bollywood debut in Phoonk in 2008. He has also starred in Ram Gopal Varma's Rann, Phoonk 2 and Rakta Charitra 1 and Rakta Charitra 2. Besides this, he has acted in Baahubali: The Beginning (2015), Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (2019), and Dabangg 3 (2019). He has directed Kannada films like My Autograph, No 73, Shanthi Nivasa, Veera Madakari, etc. He is married to Priya Radhakrishna and has one child.