Kaushik Babu (August 17) is an Indian Actor who predominantly works in Telugu and Malayalam TV and Film Industry. He is best known for Sri Jagadguru Adi Shankara (2013), Swami Ayyappan (TV series) and Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi (2017).^[1]

Kaushik was born and brought up in Hyderabad, India. His father Vijaya Babu is working as an editor for a prestigious Telugu News Paper. His mother Sarada is working at Raj Bhavan, Hyderabad. He has one sister named is Srutha Kirthy.

He completed his schooling from Private School in Hyderabad.

He studied at St.Mary’s

Degree College, Hyderabad and graduated with Bachelor of Commerce. He is a trained Kuchipudi dancer and also mastered Country-western dance as well. He was invited by the Andhra Pradesh government to portray Sri Krishnadevaraya in Kuchipudi, which he performed at Tirupathi and Hyderabad.^[2]

Kaushik acted in the TV Series as a child artist.

He made his debut in the Telugu TV series Swami Ayyappan (TV series) in 2006.^[12] He portrayed leading character of Swami Ayyapan. He rose to fame in quick time. He even won Nandi Award for his performance. Since then he has not looked back. He acted in many Tamil and Telugu Mythological Television series in his career. His notable performances came in "Lord Venkateshwara", "Lord Vishnu", "Lord Shiva" and "Lord Krishna". His popularity increased with his performance as 'Adi Shankara' in the Telugu cinema Sri Jagadguru Adi Shankara in 2013.^[13] He made his Malayalam debut in the film " Nadabrahmam".^[14] He continued to appear on big screen and acted in Tamil , Telugu and Malayalam movies, including Sami Manikandan, Shirdi Sai and Pavitra (2013) ^[15] and White Boys (2015).^[3][2][5]

Kaushik Babu lives in Hyderabad, Telangana. He is active on social media. He has over 7k followers on Facebook page.^[4] On Instagram, He has over 20k followers.^[18].

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