Riyaz Khan

Riyaz Khan is an Indian actor and bodybuilder.

He predominantly works in Malayalam and Tamil films and television series, besides acting in a few Telugu and Kannada films, as well as two Hindi films.

In 1992, he married actress Uma Riyaz, who is the daughter of Tamil music director Kamesh and actress Kamala Kamesh.

Riyaz debuted in Malayalam through the 1994 film Sukham Sukhakaram, directed by Balachandra Menon.

Khan was born to Rasheed, a Malayalam film producer and Rasheeda Baanu at Fort Kochi, Kerala.

He has a sister, Roshini who is married.

Since his father was a movie producer and all the South Indian movies were then shot in Madras, now known Chennai, his family migrated there.

He did his primary education from Chennai and pursued his bachelor's degree from United States.

His notable films include Badri (2001), Baba (2002), Ramana (2002), Balettan (2003), Winner (2003), Runway (2004), Vesham (2004) Power of Womeni (2005) Ghajini (2005), Thirupathi (2006), Stalin (2006) and Pokkiri Raja (2010).

He acted in the serial Nandini, which was aired on Sun TV.

He is also a brand ambassador of a Chennai-based fitness studio called Inshape Health & Fitness.

The couple has two sons including Shariq Hassan, who starred in Pencil (2016) and Jigiri Dosthu (2023).