9 Actors Who Won National Awards For Portraying Real Life People On-Screen 

1) Keerthy Suresh As Savitri – Mahanati (2018) 

2) Akshay Kumar As Commander Rustom Pavri – Rustom (2016)

3) Vicky Kaushal As Major Vihaan Singh Shergill – Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019) 

4) Rajkumar Rao As Shahid Azmi – Shahid (2013) 

5) Irrfan Khan As Paan Singh Tomar – Paan Singh Tomar (2012) 

6) Ajay Devgn As Bhagat Singh – The Legend Of Bhagat Singh (2002) 

7) Sanchari Vijay As Madesha – Naanu Avanalla Avalu (2014) 

8) Sarika As Shernaz – Parzania (2005) 

9) Vidya Balan As Silk Smitha – The Dirty Picture (2011)