Virendra Saxena Biography: Early life, Education, Career & Net Worth

Written by Rayden Sam Posted on 2024-02-12

Mr. Virendra Saxena is one popular actor who mostly appears in Hindi movies and other television programs. Many of us must have seen him in movies mostly as a villain and as a side role, but may not have known his name yet.

Virendra Saxena Introduction: He is an old student from the National School of Drama, and apart from his acting, he is also popularly known for his unique voice, which no one has ever had like him in the film industry. When asked how many movies he has acted in so far, he will say he has acted in more than 80 Hindi movies.

He has also been a part of Hollywood movies, like White Rainbow, Cotton Mary, and so on. Another unknown fact about him is that he is called Veeru by his close friends and relatives.

If many have not noted him much in movies, most people, mostly in the 90s, must have seen him in a television show named Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi, where he is the presenter of that show. This series of television shows was famous at that time.

Virendra Saxena’s Early Life and Career

He was born on November 25 during the year 1960, and he is aged 62 as of the year 2022. He was born and brought up in Uttar Pradesh.

His parents were not from the film industry, other than him, and even his siblings are not. He has no habit of smoking but he is an alcoholic drinker.

He started his career as an artist in theatre in Delhi, and since he had a great passion for acting and the film field, he went to pursue acting at the National School of Drama, in Delhi and finally achieved it.

Then by the year 1990, he got a chance to be a street singer where he sang the song ‘Tu Meri Zindagi Hai’ from the movie Aashiqui which was directed by Mahesh Bhatt.

Later he also got the opportunity to act in short films, and also Hollywood. Since then he has also been a part of advertisements. Apart from being an actor, he was also a playback singer.

Virendra Saxena’s Personal Life and Education

Being a native of Uttar Pradesh, he completed his education till college here and went on to study till he achieved his graduation. He completed his graduation in acting and theatre in Delhi.

Everyone has their hobbies and traveling and listening to music are his all-time favorite hobbies.

He had no other affairs until he met Samta Sagar, with whom he fell in love and got married to her, who is a writer in the profession.

The tragedy in his family life is that they did not have any children, and even the thought of adopting one failed, and they happily lived together even now.

Being an actor, he loved and admired Amitabh Bachchan and Dilip Kumar as his beloved actors in the film industry, and his favorite cricketer is none other than Virat Kohli.

Virendra Saxena’s Net Worth

His net worth was estimated to be around 2 million dollars.