Chiranjeevi Biography...

• Birth Name: Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad
• Nicknames: Mega Star Chiranjeevi / Chiru / Annayya
• Height: 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
• Parents: Sri Venkat Rao( Late ) and Mrs Anjana Devi
• Born on 22 August 1955, In Narsapur, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh

Education

• Ist Class: Gurazala, Andhra Pradesh, India
• IInd, IIIrd Class: Mangalagiri, Andhra Pradesh, India
• IV, V, VI Class: Ponnuru, Andhra Pradesh, India
• VII Class: Mogalthuru, Andhra Pradesh, India
• VIII, IX Class: Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh, India
• Xth Class: Mogalthuru, Andhra Pradesh, India
• Intermediate: CSR Sharma College, Bi.P.C, , Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, India
• Degree ( B.Com): NM College Narsapuram, Andhra Pradesh, India
• CA (Discontinued): Chennai,India

Film Career
The veteran with his career spanning over three decades and over 150 films, is still a name to reckon with, in Telugu films. Is the most popular and highly acclaimed actor from Andhra Pradesh.

Family

• Father - Sri Venkat Rao
• Mother- Anjana Devi,
• Brothers-Nagendra Babu, Kalyan Babu
• Sisters - Vijaya
• Wife - Surekha
• Daughters Sushmita & Srija
• Son- Ramcharan Tej.Social Service
  

Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust (CCT) was started by megastar of Telugu cinema Chiranjeevi with the able guidance of Allu Arvind on 2nd October 1998. The two major wings of CCT are blood bank and eye bank. In a span of five years, CCT has collected 38,200 units of blood. 79% of these blood units (30,500) were given to poor and downtrodden for free of cost and remaining units were given to corporate hospitals at a nominal fee. CCT has collected 390 pairs of eyes and 780 blind people were benefited through cornea transplant at CCT. CCT also won the prestigious “Best Voluntary Blood Bank’ award by State Government of AP for the years of 2002 and 2003.

Awards
In January 2006, Mr Chiranjeevi was honored with the Padma Bhushan. the third highest civilian award in India. In November 2006, Chiranjeevi was awarded with a honorary doctorate by Andhra University for his services to the Telugu film industry and for his social work.