Prabhakar is a popular character artist in the Telugu Film Industry mainly doing villain roles. He also ventured into few Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi films. He was born in Husnabad,near Raichur. After primary education, he shifted to Vikarabad to study in Ananta Padmanabha college.
S S Rajamouli offered him the role of antagonist in his film,
Maryada Ramanna. After that movie he got plenty of movies back to back. He got nationwide popularity after his role in Baahubali. His look in
Baahubali revealed on May 11th in twitter by
SS Rajamouli and also Prabhakar got good appreciation for his look.
He married Rajya Lakshmi and has two children. His elder son is Sriram Rajamouli, named after filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli and younger is Ritvik Preetam.