Pankaj Tripathi is an Indian actor who works primarily in the Hindi film industry. An alumnus of the National School of Drama, he made his feature film debut in the 2004 romantic thriller Run, and rose to prominence through his roles in films like Omkara (2006) and Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). Significant acting credits include Dabangg 2 (2012), Fukrey (2013), Manjhi: The Mountain Man (2015), Gurgaon (2017), Kaalakaandi (2017) and Newton (2017). In 2017 Pankaj acted alongside Ravi Kishan, Aditya Srivastava and Rati Agnihotri in director Deepak S Shivdasani's Julie 2. The movie has Raai Laxmi in the title role.