Kiran Kumar is an Indian screen and theatre actor. He has worked in numerous Hindi, Bhojpuri and Gujarati television and film productions. His latest work in drama is Charlie 2.
Kumar comes from an aristocratic Hindu Kashmiri Pandits family; his great-grandfather was a nobleman who governed the Gilgit Agency as its Wazir-e-Wazarat (lit Minister of the Ministry or Minister of the Ministers, i.e. Chief Minister) under the suzerainty of princely state of Kashmir.
He attended a boarding school in Indore, enrolled at R.D. National College in Bandra, Mumbai, and later joined the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune.
One of his first television series was with Cinevistas (Sunil Mehta, Prem Kishen). He has since established himself as a star in the Indian television industry in series such as Zindagi, Ghutan, Sahil, Manzil, Grihasti, and Katha Sagar.