Roshan Seth was born on 2 April 1942 and is a British-Indian actor, writer and theatre director who has worked in the United Kingdom, United States and India.
16 Facts About Roshan Seth
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Roshan Seth 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.
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Roshan Seth 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.
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Roshan Seth won the Genie Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the Canadian film Such a Long Journey.
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Roshan Seth's father was a biochemistry professor at Patna Medical College.
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Roshan Seth was educated at The Doon School, then did graduate studies in history at St Stephen's College.
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Roshan Seth trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 and started working in British television and repertory theatre.
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Roshan Seth first appeared in Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which toured in 1972.
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Discouraged, Roshan 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.
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Roshan Seth took leave from this job after Richard Attenborough asked Seth to play Jawaharlal Nehru in Gandhi.
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Roshan Seth was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the film.
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Roshan Seth subsequently played Jawaharlal Nehru in Bharat Ek Khoj, a 53-episode series on Doordarshan in 1988.
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In 2001, Roshan Seth appeared in Monsoon Wedding and he has continued working steadily in British and American films.
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Roshan Seth recently returned to mainstream Indian cinema with his role in the 2012 film, Ek Tha Tiger.
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Roshan Seth was married to author Pepita Roshan Seth, but they separated in the late 1980s and divorced in 2004.
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Roshan Seth's brother is the retired Indian diplomat Aftab Seth.