1. Kabir Bedi was born on 16 January 1946 and is an Indian actor.
30 Facts About Kabir Bedi
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Kabir Bedi's career has spanned three continents covering India, the United States and especially Italy among other Western countries in three media: film, television and theatre.
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Kabir Bedi is noted for his role as Emperor Shah Jahan in Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story and the villainous Sanjay Verma in the 1980s blockbuster Khoon Bhari Maang.
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Kabir Bedi is best known in Italy and Europe for playing the pirate Sandokan in the popular Italian TV miniseries and for his role as the villainous Gobinda in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy.
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Kabir Bedi was born in Lahore in the Punjab Province of British India on 16 January 1946.
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Kabir Bedi's father, Baba Pyare Lal Singh Bedi, was a Punjabi Sikh author, philosopher and a direct descendent of Guru Nanak.
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Kabir Bedi's mother, Freda Bedi, was an English woman born in Derby, who became famous as the first Western woman to take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Kabir Bedi was educated at Sherwood College in Nainital, Uttarakhand, and St Stephen's College in Delhi.
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Kabir Bedi remains one of the first international actors from India who started out in Hindi films, worked in Hollywood films and became a star in Europe.
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In 2011 Kabir Bedi played Emperor Shah Jahan in Taj, a play written by John Murrell, a Canadian playwright for the Luminato Festival in Toronto.
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Kabir Bedi shot a movie with Hrithik Roshan, Govinda, and Akshay Kumar.
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Kabir Bedi acted in the Tamil film Aravaan, directed by Vasanthabalan.
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Kabir Bedi played roles in Columbia Pictures' The Beast of War, a film on the Russian war in Afghanistan, directed by Kevin Reynolds, as well as the acclaimed Italian film Andata Ritorno, by Marco Ponti, winner of the David di Donatello Award.
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Kabir Bedi has appeared on American television, in Hallmark's African epic Forbidden Territory, and Ken Follett's On Wings of Eagles and Red Eagle.
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Kabir Bedi played Friar Sands in The Lost Empire, for NBC.
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Kabir Bedi recently starred in a prime-time Italian television series, Un Medico in Famiglia, on RAI TV.
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For over a year, Kabir Bedi starred in The Bold and the Beautiful, the second most-watched television show in the world, seen by over a billion people in 149 countries.
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Kabir Bedi had his own cinematic talk show on Indian TV, Director's Cut, a 13-part special series interviewing the country's leading directors.
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Kabir Bedi did the year-end special series, Best of 2017.
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Kabir Bedi is a regular contributor to Indian publications including the Times of India and Tehelka on political and social issues affecting the country.
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Kabir Bedi is seen debating such topics on Indian national television.
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Since 1982, Kabir Bedi has been a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Kabir Bedi is a voting member of the Screen Actors Guild.
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Kabir Bedi has won numerous film, advertising and popularity awards across Europe and India.
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Kabir Bedi received the highest ranking civilian honour of the Italian Republic and was bestowed the title of "Cavaliere" of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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Kabir Bedi has recently received Honorary Degree from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
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Kabir Bedi married four times and had three children, Pooja, Siddharth and Adam.
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Kabir Bedi was married to Protima Bedi, an Odissi dancer.
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Kabir Bedi supports the anti-government struggle in Myanmar, and he is an official ambassador of the Burma Campaign UK.
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Kabir Bedi is the brand ambassador for Rotary International South Asia for its Teach Programme and the Total Literacy Mission in India and South Asia.