
Sivaji Ganesan is a stage actor, film actor, politician born in Villupuram (India).
Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, (1 October 1928 – 21 July 2001) was an Indian actor and film producer. He was mainly active in Tamil cinema during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ganesan is acknowledged as one of the greatest Indian actors of all time and among the most imitated one by other actors. He was known for his versatility and the variety of roles he depicted on screen, which also gave him the Tamil nickname Nadigar Thilagam (transl. the pride of actors). In a career that spanned close to five decades, he had acted in 288 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. Sivaji Ganesan is the only actor in Tamil cinema to have played the lead role in over 250 films. Ganesan was the first Indian actor to win the "Best Actor" award at the first Afro-Asian Film Festival held in Cairo, Egypt in 1960.
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| Born | 24 September 1928, Villupuram |
| Profession | stage actor, film actor, politician |
| Nationality | India |
| Children | Prabhu Ganesan, Ramkumar Ganesan |
| Awards | Padma Shri in arts, NTR National Award, Padma Bhushan, Filmfare Awards South, Dadasaheb Phalke Award |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Capricorn |
| Nakshatra | Uttara Ashadha (Pada 3) |
| Sun Sign | Virgo |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Aquarius |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Astrology of Professions (Pathak)) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 148 Bollywood personalities with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 18 of them (12%) have the Moon in Capricorn, like Sivaji Ganesan, and 3 (2%) share the Uttara Ashadha Nakshatra — the #21 most common Moon Nakshatra among Bollywood personalities, where Swati leads with 10 (7%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Sivaji Ganesan was born on 24 September 1928 in Villupuram. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Astrology of Professions (Pathak)) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Sivaji Ganesan's Moon sign (Rashi) is Capricorn and the Nakshatra is Uttara Ashadha, pada 3, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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