Danny Denzongpa - Biography, Height & Life Story

Nickname:Danny

Full Name:Tshering Phintso Denzongpa

Profession:Actor, Director, Businessman

Nationality:Indian

Age:71 years old (in 2020)

Date of Birth:25 February 1948

Birthplace:Gangtok, Sikkim

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Height:5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m)

Weight:79 kg (174 lbs)

Chest:41 inches

Waist:38 inches

Biceps:12 inches

Hair Color:Black

Eye Color:Dark Brown

Danny has acted in more than 150 movies in a career spanning more than four decades and has a craze for riding horses with his family being in the business of breeding horses for many decades.
After doing his early-schooling in Sikkim he completed his education from the prestigious Birla Vidya Mandir situated in Nainital, Uttarakhand.
Danny is a Sikkimese-Bhutanese by birth and was born in Yuksom, Sikkim. Grapevine has it that Jaya Bachchan, his batch-mate in FTII, changed his name from Tshering to Danny as it was simpler and easy to remember.
Denzongpa is married to a Sikkimese princess Gawa Denzongpa, niece of the last monarch of Sikkim. He has two children, son Rinzing and a daughter called Pema.
Denzongpa’s first film as a director was a suspense horror called ‘Phir Wohi Raat’ (1980). Rajesh Khanna was the lead actor opposite Kim Yashpal, the then girlfriend of Danny.