Uppalapati Venkata Satyanarayana Prabhas Raju known mononymously as Prabhas is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Telugu films Prabhas made his screen debut with the 2002 Telugu action drama film Eeswar He has garnered the state Nandi Award for Best Actor for his role in Mirchi Prabhas is the first south Indian actor to have his wax sculpture at Madame Tussauds wax museum