Pankaj Kapur is an Indian theatre, television and film actor from Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He has appeared in several television serials and films. His most acclaimed film roles to date have been that of Dr. Dipankar Roy in Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1991) and Abba ji, (based on Shakespeare’s King Duncan) in Vishal Bhardwaj’s adaption of Macbeth; Maqbool(2003), both of which got him National Film Awards.