John Gardner (born 30 January 1957), known professionally as Akshay Anand is an Indian actor who appears mainly in Hindi films & television. He was discovered by actor Dev Anand, who cast him to play the protagonist in one of his directorial ventures Hum Naujawan. Anand has acted in numerous films and TV series across multiple languages. Besides acting, he writes stories and screenplays.Anand was born as John Gardner and he assumed the name Akshay inspired by his character in his television debut Indradhanush. The name Anand had been given to him by his mentor, actor and director Dev Anand, during his association with Dev Anand while filming Hum Naujawan. He studied economics at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai before getting into acting.His television debut was made in 1989 with the 13-episode TV series Indradhanush which was based on time travel.He also mentors at his acting academy, Akshay Anand Acting Academy. He is also active as producer and director for various web series under the banner Akshay Anand Academy Production.Anand is married to Roma Roy.
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Movies
Sadak 2
Aarya Desai is on mission to expose fake Godman Gyan Prakash whom she also holds responsible for death of her mother.But Arya is captured and sent to asylum by her step mother Nandini and gang of Gyan Prakash from where she escapes.Ravi runs a tours and travel business he gets…
Ladies vs Ricky Bahl
Dimple Chaddha (Parineeti Chopra), a brash 19 year old Delhi college girl falls in love with Sunny Singh, a fitness trainer. Raina Parulekar (Dipannita Sharma), a 28 year old independent and successful corporate woman in Mumbai does business with an art dealer Deven Shah. Saira Rashid (Aditi Sharma), a 24…
Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan
Orphaned Raju Tarachand is cared for by his maternal uncle, Brij, and aunt, Basanti, in Nainital. Raju decides to re-locate to Mumbai to make a name for himself in a firm run by Chaturvedi. Upon arrival, he finds out that Chaturvedi’s firm has gone bankrupt. He goes job-hunting, ends up…
Daava
Inspector Arjun and his two siblings, Bhishma and Suraj are made targets when they decides to go against a notorious criminal gang who call themselves, ‘Chamunda brothers’. The gang first kill Suraj when he attempt to expose their unlawful activities and then they attempt to split Arjun and Bhishma over…
Fun Facts
Starred in the completed and unreleased movie, " Hum Funtoosh Hain ""(1996) Starring Akshay Anand