Ashmit Patel was born on January 01, 1978 in Mumbai, India. He is an Indian actor who works in Bollywood movies.

Ashmit Patel is the son of Amit Patel and Asha Patel, younger brother of Amisha Patel and the grandson of the famous Indian lawyer Rajni Patel.Ashmit's name is derived from his parent's name (Asha+Amit=Ash+mit). He worked in his father's business for a while, before he decided to take a step and act in films like his sister Amisha.

Before that he was studying in the United States at the University of Texas at Austin where he received a bachelors degree in 2000.

He used to date Amrita Arora and Riya Sen.