1. Alexx O'Nell is best known for his roles in the films L2: Empuraan, Ae Watan Mere Watan, Khufiya, Golondaaj, Roohi, Aarya, Main Aur Charles, Cheeni Kum, Madrasapattinam, Joker, Yeti Obhijaan, Chittagong and Urumi.
22 Facts About Alexx O'Nell
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Alexx O'Nell later gained recognition as a contestant on the hugely popular Indian celebrity dance competition Nach Baliye.
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Alexx O'Nell's first leading role in a big-budget production came with Madrasapattinam.
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Finally, Alexx O'Nell starred in Bedabrata Pain's Chittagong, released on October 12,2012.
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Alexx O'Nell appeared in a double-lead role in the multilingual Urumi, and the unreleased English-language Vasco Da Gama, directed by acclaimed Indian director Santosh Sivan.
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Alexx O'Nell began working at various jobs from an early age and continued to change his career frequently throughout his adult life including working in counselling marketing and modelling.
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Alexx O'Nell is the first non-Indian participant seen in a significant capacity on Indian national primetime television.
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Alexx O'Nell's first leading role in a big-budget production came in 2010 with the Tamil-language 1940s period drama Madrasapattinam, in which he starred opposite Amy Jackson and well-known south Indian actor Arya.
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Simultaneously while shooting for Jo Dooba So Paar, Alexx O'Nell appeared with then real-life wife Sweta Keswani as her husband in a cameo for friend-director Rohit Roy's made-for-television film Chaar Mulakatein.
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In early 2010, Alexx O'Nell completed shooting for the critically acclaimed and Indian National Award-winning Chittagong, a period drama based on historical events surrounding the East Indian Chittagong armoury raid of 1930.
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Alexx O'Nell plays Charles Johnson, the British Official in charge of law and order, who is pitted against a school teacher named Surya Sen and a group of students who go on to famously defeat the imperial force for the first time in the history of British India.
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Alexx O'Nell has commented that Chittagong is a "grittier" depiction of the events.
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In mid-2010 Alexx O'Nell returned to television for the first time since Nach Baliye to star in the Zee TV Indian primetime historical drama Jhansi Ki Rani, wherein he played Robert Ellis, a British officer sympathetic to the plight of a revolutionary Indian queen in her struggle against the British colonial rule of the 1850s.
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In early 2011, while continuing to shoot for JKR and DLMH, Alexx O'Nell completed filming for lead roles in the multilingual Urumi and the English language Vasco Da Gama, both simultaneously directed by acclaimed Indian director Santosh Sivan.
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Therefore, in Urumi, Alexx O'Nell plays both Vasco da Gama and Vasco's son Estevao da Gama.
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In February 2011 Alexx O'Nell began work on Shirish Kunder's Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha starrer Joker.
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In early December 2011 Alexx O'Nell teamed up with Director A L Vijay to shoot for a cameo in the Tamil language; Thaandavam.
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In 2014 Alexx O'Nell is rumoured to have shot for a cameo in the Suraj Sharma starrer Umrika.
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Apart from the 2016 release of Ek Yodha Shoorveer, a Hindi dubbed and re-edited version of Urumi, Alexx O'Nell was seen in what had previously been known as Pooja Bhatt's Hindi-language film Bad, re-titled as director Prawaal Raman's Main Aur Charles.
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The son of a Dutch mother and an Irish-American father, Alexx O'Nell was born in Connecticut and has one sister.
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Alexx O'Nell married actor Sweta Keswani in 2007 in four different ceremonies including Buddhist, Hindu, and Christian.
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Alexx O'Nell was in a relationship with Shama Sikander from 2011 to 2015.