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Roshan Seth

1942 - Today

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Roshan Seth (born 2 April 1942) is a British-Indian actor, writer and theatre director who has worked in the United Kingdom, United States and India. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roshan Seth is the 4,240th most popular actor (down from 4,176th in 2019), the 611th most popular biography from India (down from 574th in 2019) and the 88th most popular Indian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Roshan Seth ranks 4,240 out of 13,578. Before him are Fred Williamson, Richard Lewis, Ryūsei Nakao, Han Hyo-joo, Clémence Poésy, and Scott Patterson. After him are James Shigeta, Stina Ekblad, Courtney B. Vance, Zhao Wei, Gina Torres, and Françoise Rosay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Roshan Seth ranks 419. Before him are Fernando Atzori, José Serra, Jeffrey Ullman, Pamela Tiffin, Mike Resnick, and Marco Rota. After him are Willis Reed, Quentin Bryce, Kenichi Ogata, Jean Shrimpton, Yevhen Stankovych, and Ksenia Milicevic.

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In India

Among people born in India, Roshan Seth ranks 611 out of 1,861. Before him are Humpy Koneru (1987), Samantha Akkineni (1987), Brian Horrocks (1895), Nayanthara (1984), Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), and R. K. Narayan (1906). After him are Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896), Waheeda Rehman (1938), John Shepherd-Barron (1925), Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), Devika Rani (1908), and Roberto de Nobili (1577).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Roshan Seth ranks 88. Before him are Erick Avari (1952), Disha Patani (1992), Shabana Azmi (1950), Om Puri (1950), Samantha Akkineni (1987), and Nayanthara (1984). After him are Waheeda Rehman (1938), Devika Rani (1908), P. Bhanumathi (1925), Johnny Walker (1926), Saif Ali Khan (1970), and Madhuri Dixit (1967).

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