British-Indian actor, writer, theatre director (born 1942)
Roshan Seth
OBE
Born
(1942-04-02) 2 April 1942 (age 82)
Patna, Bihar, British India
Alma mater
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupations
Actor
writer
theatre director
Years active
1961–present
Spouse
Pepita Seth
(div. 2004)
Relatives
Aftab Seth (brother)
Roshan SethOBE[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.
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.
^"Stanton Davidson Associates". www.stantondavidson.co.uk. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
^Audio interview with Seth Archived 31 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine on NPR's All Things Considered, 3 June 2004
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born British actor RoshanSeth but was estranged from her husband in the late 80s. The couple formally divorced in 2004. Pepita Seth has extensively covered...
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