Mukesh Tiwari(born 24 August 1969 Sagar (M.P.) is an Indian film actor known for playing negative and comic roles in Bollywood and several other Indian language films. he began his acting career with the Hindi film China Gate, in which he played Jageera.

Mukesh Tiwari studied at the National School of Drama and was termed as the best actor present in the university at the time by numerous professors. This led to him bagging his first movie China Gate, which has been critically acclaimed as one of the finest works of Bollywood and was also in contention to be nominated for the Oscars.