Vicky Kaushal is an Indian Film actor who works in Hindi films. He was born on 16 May 1988 in Mumbai India. He hails from Punjabi background his father Sham Kaushal was a stuntman and action director in Bollywood films. Vicky has an engineering degree from Mumbai's Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology. During an industrial visit to an IT company, he realised that an office job would be unsuitable for him and he began to shape his career in films. After completing his degree in engineering he did a job for a brief period and started working with his father on film sets. Vicky studied acting at Kishore Namit Kapoor's academy and worked as assistant director to Anurag Kashyap in one