The model-turned-actor was born on 26th Nov, 1972 in Jabalpur to Gwen and Amarjeet Rampal. His cousin Kim Sharma is also in the film industry. He is married to former model and Miss India Mehr Jessia and has two girls, Mahikaa and Myra.

He studied in Kodaikanal International School located in Palani Hills,Tamil Nadu and was later a student of Hindu College in Delhi, where he was discovered in a discotheque by designer Rohit Bal who launched him as a model.

Arjun soon became one of the leading models of India and also worked with the prestigious Elite modeling agency.

His film career started in 2001 with ‘Moksha’ and ‘Pyar, Ishq aur Mohabbat’, however, it didn’t really pick up until after he his much appreciated roles in the remake of ‘Don’, directed by Farhan Akhtar and Farah Khan’s ‘Om Shanti Om’ in which he played a negative character.

In 2008, two films earned him much repute the first being ‘Rock On’ in which he played the role of a Joseph Mascarenhas, lead guitarist and ‘The Last Lear’ where he acted with Amitabh Bachchan and played the role of Siddharth, an eccentric filmmaker.

Recently, he created quite a flutter in a chat show when the anchor asked him about the rumours of his affair with a male fashion designer and whether he was a bisexual or not, to which Arjun replied that there is no smoke without fire and that he doesn’t have to prove anything about his sexuality to anyone.