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Roshan Seth OBE[1] (born 2 April 1942) is a British-Indian actor, writer and theatre director who has worked in the United Kingdom, United States and India.[2] He began his acting career in the early 1960s in the UK, but left acting the following decade and moved to India to work as a journalist. In the 1980s, he rose to prominence for his comeback performance as Jawaharlal Nehru in Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning film Gandhi, which brought him a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and reignited his interest in acting.

Roshan Seth OBE
Born	(1942-04-02) 2 April 1942 (age 80) Patna, Bihar, British India (present-day Bihar, India)
Alma mater	The Doon School London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor, writer, theatre director
Years active	1961–present
Spouse	Pepita Seth (div. 2004)
Relatives	Aftab Seth (brother)

He has since appeared in numerous British and American feature films and television programmes, with roles ranging from Chattar Lal in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Amit Rao in A Passage to India, Papa Hussein in My Beautiful Laundrette, patriarch Jay in Mississippi Masala and Dhalsim in Street Fighter: The Movie. He won the Genie Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the Canadian film Such a Long Journey. Other projects he has appeared include Bharat Ek Khoj, Not Without My Daughter, The Buddha of Suburbia, Vertical Limit, Monsoon Wedding, Proof, Ek Tha Tiger, Indian Summers and Dumbo.

Early life

Seth was born in Patna, Bihar on 2 April 1942 during the British Raj, to a Hindu father and a Muslim mother.^{[citation needed]} His father was a biochemistry professor at Patna Medical College.[3] He was educated at The Doon School, then did graduate studies in history at St Stephen's College. There, he honed his theatrical skills at the Shakespeare Society, before moving to England for further training.[4] He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 and started working in British television and repertory theatre.[5][6]

Career

Seth first appeared in Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which toured in 1972.^{[citation needed]} Seth entered feature films in Richard Lester's Juggernaut (1974). However, subsequent filmmakers only wanted Seth for limited ethnic roles, so that his career stalled.[6]

Discouraged, Seth abandoned acting and returned to India in 1977, where he worked as a journalist and editor of the quarterly journal published by the India International Centre, Delhi. He took leave from this job after Richard Attenborough asked Seth to play Jawaharlal Nehru in Gandhi (1982).[6] Seth was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the film.[7] Seth subsequently also played Jawaharlal Nehru in Bharat Ek Khoj, a 53-episode series on Doordarshan in 1988.^{[citation needed]}

David Hare met Seth in Delhi in 1982, and asked him to play author Victor Mehta in Hare's biographical play A Map of the World. Seth left his editing job and returned to acting.[6] A Map of the World toured for several years in Australia, London, and New York.^{[citation needed]} After the release of the multi-award-winning movie Gandhi (1982), Seth was much in demand, and when A Map of the World's Broadway run finished, his movie career took off. His work in 1984 included major roles in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and David Lean's A Passage to India. Following that he played a lead in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), and he played Pancks in Little Dorrit (1988).^{[citation needed]}

Seth's film credits in the 1990s included roles in Not Without My Daughter (1991), Mississippi Masala (1991), Street Fighter (1994), and Harish Saluja's The Journey (1997). In 1993, he played the role of Haroon Amir in the television miniseries The Buddha of Suburbia, for which he was nominated a Royal Television Society award for "Best Actor – Male". In 1995, he played the role of Baba in Flight, for which he won the "Best Actor" award at the Sochi International Film Festival. In 1998, he played the leading role of Gustad Noble in the film Such a Long Journey, for which he won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.[7]

In 2001, Seth appeared in Monsoon Wedding and he has continued working steadily in British and American films.^{[citation needed]} In 2003 he played the lead in the American film Cosmopolitan, which was broadcast nationally on PBS. He also recently returned to mainstream Indian cinema with his role in the 2012 film, Ek Tha Tiger.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Seth was married to author Pepita Seth, but they separated in the late 1980s and divorced in 2004.[8][9] His brother is the retired Indian diplomat Aftab Seth.[10]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1974	Juggernaut	Azad	Richard Lester
1982	Gandhi	Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru	Richard Attenborough	Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1984	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Chattar Lal	Steven Spielberg
	A Passage to India	Advocate Amrit Rao	David Lean
1985	My Beautiful Laundrette	Papa Hussein	Stephen Frears
1987	Partition		Ken McMullen
1988	Little Dorrit	Mr. Pancks	Christine Edzard
1989	Slipstream	George Nyman	Steven Lisberger
1990	Mountains of the Moon	Ben Amir	Bob Rafelson
	1871	Lord Grafton	Ken McMullen
1991	Not Without My Daughter	Houssein	Brian Gilbert
	Mississippi Masala	Jay	Mira Nair
	London Kills Me	Dr. Bubba	Hanif Kureishi
1992	Electric Moon	Ranveer	Pradip Krishen
1994	Street Fighter	Dr. Dhalsim	Steven E. de Souza
1995	Bideshi	Ajoy	Frances-Anne Solomon	Short film
	Solitaire for 2	Sandip Tamar	Gary Sinyor
1997	The Journey	Kishan Singh	Harish Saluja
1998	Such a Long Journey	Gustad Noble	Sturla Gunnarsson	Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
	Bombay Boys	Pesi Shroff	Kaizad Gustad
1999	Secret of the Andes	Don Benito	Alejandro Azzano
2000	Vertical Limit	Col. Amir Salim	Martin Campbell
2001	Monsoon Wedding	Mohan Rai	Mira Nair
	Wings of Hope	Shekar Khanna	Werner Herzog
	South West 9	Ravi	Richard Parry
2004	Spivs	Omar	Colin Teague
	Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo	Aldo Moro	Aurelio Grimaldi
2005	Frozen	Noyen	Juliet McKoen
	Proof	Professor Bhandari	John Madden
2006	Kabul Express	Narrator (voice)	Kabir Khan
2007	Broken Thread	Chief of Enquiry Commission	Mahesh Mathai
	Guru	Thapar	Mani Ratnam
	Amal	Suresh Gupta	Richie Mehta
2010	The Truth About Tigers	Narrator	Shekar Dattatri	Short film
2011	Trishna	Mr. Singh	Michael Winterbottom
2012	Ek Tha Tiger	Professor Kidwai	Kabir Khan
2013	Brahmin Bulls	Ashok Sharma	Mahesh Pailoor
	The Lovers	Sadhu	Roland Joffé
2016	City of Tiny Lights	Farzad Akhtar	Pete Travis
2018	Boogie Man	Rupesh	Andy Morahan
2019	Dumbo	Pramesh Singh	Tim Burton

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	Crossroads	Dr. Ahmed
1966	Public Eye	Soondra	Episode: "Tell Me About the Crab"
1967	No Hiding Place	Kuldip Mahal	Episode: "The Game"
	Theatre 625	Vinay	Episode: "55 Columns"
1968-69	The Wednesday Play	Ben Scalfe / Student	2 episodes
1969	Strange Report	Jamal	Episode: "Report 3424: Epidemic - A Most Curious Crime"
1971	The Doctors	Bingi Singh	Episode 1.88
1972	To Encourage the Others	Jazwon	Television film
1973	The Protectors	Persuer	Episode: "...With a Little Help From My Friends"
1975	Six Days of Justice	Mr. Wood	Episode: "Belonging"
	General Hospital	Dr. Narasjee	Episode: "The White Rajah"
1976	Play for Today	Dr. Milma	Episode: "The Peddler"
	Centre Play	Anil Roy	Episode: "Commonwealth Season: India - Apply, Apply, No Reply"
	Crown Court	Farooq Rana	Episode: "A Matter of Honour: Part 1"
1987	The Happy Valley	Defense Solicitor	Television film
	Emmerdale	Howard	2 episodes
1988	First Born	Dr. Antony Graham	Episode 1.2
	Deadline	The Emir of Hawa	Television film
	Bharat Ek Khoj	Jawaharlal Nehru	Main cast; Series 1
1989	In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones	Y.D. Billimoria / Yamdoot	Television film
1992	Casualty	Sujit Pratkash	Episode: "Rates of Exchange"
	Screen One	Mr. Humphrey	Episode: "Running Late"
	Stalin	Lavrentiy Beria	Television film
1993	The Buddha of Suburbia	Haroon Amir	Television film Nominated- Royal Television Society Award for Best Actor
1994	Siren Spirits	Ajoy	Miniseries; 2 episodes
1996	The Bill	Ahmed Seth	Episode: "Blood Brothers"
	Dangerfield	Aslam Choudhury	Episode: "Treasure"
	Die Flughafenklinik [it]	Dr. Tenshin Sharafi	Episode: "Fluchthilfe"
1997	Turning World	Dr. Khan	3 episodes
	Flight	Baba	Television film
	Food for Ravens	Nehru
	Grandpa Chatterjee	Grandpa Chatterjee
1998	Iqbal	Ulla Khasi
1999	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Sheikh Khamal	Episode: "Tales of Innocence"
2001	Holby City	Kushara Bandara	Episode: "Tip of the Iceberg"
2003	Spooks	Fazul Azzam	Episode: "Nest of Angels"
	Second Generation	Mohan	Television film
	Silent Witness	Afzal Khan	Episode: Answering Fire
	Cosmopolitan	Gopal	Television film
2004	Blue Murder	Jameel Khan	Episode: "Fragile Relations"
2005	The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag	Pundit	Television film
2007	The Last Days of the Raj	Jawaharlal Nehru	Television film
2008	The Cheetah Girls: One World	Uncle Kamal Bhatia
2015-16	Indian Summers	Darius Dalal	Main cast; Series 1-2
2017	Diana and I	Uncle Zaheer	Television film
2019	Beecham House	Emperor Shah Alam	Main cast; Series 1
2021	Behind Her Eyes	Dr. Sharma

Selected theatre credits

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• A Map of the World (Victor Mehta)
• King Lear (The Fool)
• The Millionairess (The Doctor)
• Amadeus (Antonio Salieri)

References

External links

• Roshan Seth at IMDb
• Roshan Seth at Filmreference.com
• Roshan Seth at ScreenOnline
• Roshan Seth interview on NPR's All Things Considered, 3 June 2004

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Roshan Seth (* 17. August 1942 in Neu-Delhi) ist ein britisch-indischer Film- und Theaterschauspieler.

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[es] Roshan Seth

Roshan Seth (Nueva Delhi; 2 de abril de 1942) es un actor británico indio que aparece principalmente en películas británicas y estadounidenses.[1] Es conocido por sus roles protagonistas en películas como Gandhi, Mississippi Masala, Not Without My Daughter, Ropa limpia, negocios sucios e Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, entre otras. En 2003 interpretó el papel principal en la película estadounidense Cosmopolitan, que se transmitió a nivel nacional en PBS.[2][3]

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