Nikhil Dwivedi is an Indian actor nominated in Filmfare Best Male Debut Award for his film My Name is Anthony Gonsalves, which was his debut film.

Early Life of Nikhil Dwivedi
Nikhil Dwivedi was born in a middle-class family in Kanpur and owing to his father"s profession as a banker; he had often moved around and changed residences from time-to-time. Nikhil Dwivedi is growing up in many towns of Uttar Pradesh before his father moved to Mumbai.

Early Career of Nikhil Dwivedi
Nikhil Dwivedi was a proper, well-rounded education, meant a lot to his family and Nikhil had to complete all stages of education towards this objective. He completed his primary schooling at a school in Mumbai, Maharashtra and higher secondary education from Sherwood College, Nainital in Uttarakhand. Nikhil Dwivedi completed his graduation in the city of Mumbai and his Masters in Business Administration from Symbiosis, Pune, Maharashtra. Nikhil Dwivedi was picked up by American Express Bank through the campus placements system and worked for AEB before moving on to work for a consumer electronics conglomerate. However, he gave up all of this to pursue acting in films.

Later Career of Nikhil Dwivedi
Nikhil Dwivedi received his first major break to star as the lead in My Name is Anthony Gonsalves where he kept his family in the dark and would go for the shoot on the pretext of work. It was only when his family read about the movie in the leading entertainment magazine, Filmfare, did they realize that their son is actually going to become an actor. Nikhil Dwivedi made his movie debut with My Name is Anthony Gonsalves in early 2008 which was directed by E. Niwas and co-produced by Red Chillies production house. Nikhil Dwivedi was documented for the role that he played of a strong and ambitious yet good-at-heart Anthony Gonsalves and he went on to secure the role of Hemant in Mani Ratnam"s Raavan that also starred Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Nikhil Dwivedi has his next movie "Shor in the City" that brought him critical and commercial success where he played the role of Ramesh alongside Tushar Kapoor. "Hate Story", directed by Vivek Agnihotri has been his most commercially successful film yet which opened to packed houses. Nikhil Dwivedi`s fifth film was Tamanchey in which he co-starred with Richa Chadda which is considered his best defined role and most important critics rated his performance as very high and certainly his best till date.

Personal Life of Nikhil Dwivedi
Nikhil Dwivedi married model Gauri Pandit in the year 2011.