Prabhas Raju Uppalapati (born 23 October 1979), popularly known as Prabhas, is an Indian film actor.

Prabhas was born to U. Suryanarayana Raju and Siva Kumari. His family is from Mogalturu village in West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. He is the youngest of three children, with an elder brother Pramod Uppalapati and sister Pragathi.^[2] He is the nephew of Telugu actor Uppalapati Krishnam Raju.

Prabhas started his movie career with Eshwar in 2002. In 2003, he was the lead in Raghavendra. He appeared in 2004 with M. S. Raju's Varsham. He continued his career with Adavi Raamudu and Chakram. In September 2005 he acted in the film Chatrapathidirected by S. S. Rajamouli. Later he acted in Pournami' 'Yogi and Munna, an action-drama film came out in 2007, followed by the action-comedy Bujjigadu in 2008. In 2009 his two films were Billa and Ek Niranjan .

In 2010 he appeared in the romantic comedy Darling and in 2011, Mr. Perfect, another romantic comedy. In 2012, Prabhas starred in Rebel, an action film directed by Raghava Lawrence. His next film was Mirchi.

He is referred to as Young Rebel star in Telugu cinema

Year	Title	Role	Source
2002	Eeshwar	Eeshwar
2003	Raghavendra	Raghavendra
2004	Varsham	Venkat
2004	Adavi Ramudu	Ramudu
2005	Chakram	Chakram
2005	Chatrapati	Shivaji / Chatrapati
2006	Pournami	Shiva Keshava
2007	Yogi	Eeshwara Prasad / Yogi
2007	Munna	Munna
2008	Bujjigadu	Lingaraju / Bujji
2009	Billa	Billa / Ranga
2009	Ek Niranjan	Chotu
2010	Darling	Prabhas / Prabha
2011	Mr. Perfect	Vicky
2012	Rebel	Rishi
2012	Denikaina Ready	Voice
2013	Mirchi	Jai
2014	Action Jackson	Himself (special appearance)
2015	Baahubali	Baahubali / Shivudu