- Roshan Seth
Infobox actor
name = Roshan Seth
caption = Roshan Seth
birthdate =April 02 ,1942 (age 66)
birthplace =Patna ,India Roshan Seth (born
April 02 1942 ) is a British-Indian actor.Seth was born the son of a professor of
biochemistry at Patna University. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/53/Roshan-Seth.html Roshan Seth Biography (1942-) ] ] He was educated atThe Doon School , further doing graduation in History at St Stephen's College,honing his theatrical skills at the Shakespeare society before moving on to UK for further training. He attended London's Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in British repertory theater.His first break came in Peter Brook's production of
A Midsummer Night's Dream , which toured in 1972. Seth entered feature films in Richard Lester's Juggernaut (1974), but because subsequent filmmakers only wanted Seth for ethnic roles, his career abruptly stalled.Discouraged, he abandoned acting and returned to India, where he worked as an editor and journalist until the early '80s, when
Richard Attenborough asked Seth to playPandit Nehru in Gandhi (1982). (He also played Nehru in the March 2007 drama-documentary 'The Last Days of the Raj' broadcast on British TV Channel 4 on 12 March 2007).Shortly thereafter, Seth essayed Indian author
Victor Mehta and toured the globe in playwright David Hare's biography "A Map of the World". After the play's Broadway run, Seth's movie career took off, with roles inGeorge Lucas andSteven Spielberg 'sIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) andDavid Lean 's A Passage to India (1984). Seth's subsequent film credits includeMississippi Masala (1992), Street Fighter (1994), and The Journey (1997).He recently came back into main stream Indian commercial cinema with his crisp role in the
Abhishek Bachchan -Aishwarya Rai starrer Guru.Filmography
Family Background
Seth is of a mixed ancestry, his father was from Lahore and his mother was from Bihar, she herself being born of a White mother from England and a U.K. returned muslim barrister called Syed Khilafat Hussain, who hailed from a family of landlords of a village called Orain(Uren), in Lakhisarai District of Bihar.
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