Indian Actors in English Movies

Manjinder was born in Coventry, to a car factory worker and his wife who had come to England from the Punjab. Manjinder describes her parents as " very liberal" - her father was involved in the Indian Workers Association - bringing herself and her sister up "like boys " - she has a brother - as well as being massively into the arts and encouraging of her acting ambitions. She began acting at the Belgrade Youth Theatre in Coventry before becoming an artistic director of Pangran Dance Theatre and going on to study contemporary dance at De Montfort University, Leicester.. She made her television debut in 1999 in 'Holby City' and has made her fair share of performances in medically-themed dramas - 'Monroe', 'Call the Midwife', 'Doctors' and the sitcom 'Green Wing' before, in 2015, becoming the new pathologist in the long-running 'Midsomer Murders' . Away from the small screen Manjinder was nominated for best actress for the film 'The Arbor' and was also named one of Screen International's Stars of tomorrow in 2007, the same year that she met her husband writer/director Neil Biswas, with whom she has two children. She is herself an acclaimed writer, in 2003 penning the play 'Glow' about a female boxer, for the touring company 'Theatre Centre'. In 2008 she wrote and directed a short film 'Forgive', following this up in 2012 with another film 'Out of Darkness' starring Tom Hiddleston. In 2016 she completed another short film 'With Love from Calais' about the refugee crisis.

Riz Ahmed (born 1 December 1982), also known by his stage name Riz MC and birth name Rizwan Ahmed, is a British Pakistani actor, rapper, and activist. As an actor, he has won one Emmy Award, out of two Emmy nominations, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, and three British Independent Film Awards.

Ace Bhatti was born on 13 September 1969 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007) and EastEnders (1985).

Soraya Radford is known for The Infidel (2010), The Bible (2013) and Midsomer Murders (1997).

Nikesh Patel was born on 17 October 1985 in Wembley, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Indian Summers (2015), London Has Fallen (2016) and Halal Daddy (2017).

Laila Rouass was born in London to Moroccan/Indian parents. Laila studied in Britain but decided to drop her studies and travel in India for a few months. A few months turned into six years. Whilst living in Bombay, she worked for MTV, BBC, and TNT. Her step into movies came when she was spotted by Italian director Aditya Bhattacharya and whisked off to Messina to shoot Senso unico (1999).

Sanjeev Bhaskar was born on 31 October 1963 in Ealing, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Yesterday (2019), The Kumars at No. 42 (2001) and Absolutely Anything (2015). He has been married to Meera Syal since 21 January 2005. They have one child.

Raj Awasti is known for Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016), Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015) and '83 (2021).

Alex Pillai is of South Indian heritage, and was born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom. He was educated at the National Film and Television School, and his break in television direction was for the actor and producer Sir Lenny Henry. He is a recipient of the FIPA D'Argent and the Screen Nation Award. Alex lives near London.

Navin Chowdhry was born and raised in Bristol, England. He made his professional debut aged 15 in John Schlesinger's critically-acclaimed film Madame Sousatzka (1988), starring alongside Shirley MacLaine and Peggy Ashcroft.

Several films followed co-starring with actors such as Peter O'Toole and Nigel Hawthorne.

In 1994, Navin graduated with 2:1 from Imperial College London, where he completed a three-year biochemistry degree whilst still managing to work on several TV projects along the way.

Since then, he has played Kurt in Channel 4's cult comedy Teachers (2001) and Raph in Channel 4's drama NY-LON (2004). Other notable TV work includes Doctor Who (2005), The Golden Hour (2005), Sinchronicity (2006), A Touch of Cloth (2012), Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned (2015), The Replacement (2017), The End of the F***ing World (2017) and Next of Kin (2018).

Navin has also written and produced a handful of projects including the award-winning short film This Bastard Business (2000) and a short play called Mashed which was performed at the Bristol Old Vic.

Sheena is an English actress of Indian descent . Sheena began her career in theatre and continued whilst completing her law degree in London. Her first film roles were in Indian cinema even though she did not speak Hindi at the time. Soon after, she was cast in ITV's The Fixer and subsequent TV and film roles in Eastenders, Doctors, Midsomer Murders and NBC's Ransom. She was part of the Olivier-award nominated cast of 'The Great Game', playing in London and touring America, who also performed for The Pentagon in 2011.

Hari Dhillon was born on 6 October 1968 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Entrapment (1999), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003) and Bad Education (2019). He is married to Lara. They have one child.

Ramon Tikaram was born on 16 May 1967 in Singapore. He is an actor, known for Jupiter Ascending (2015), Vampire Academy (2014) and Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014).

Kim Vithana was born on 4 June 1969 in Nottingham, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Phoenix (2021), Fierce Creatures (1997) and Holby City (1999).

Meera Syal was born on 27 June 1961 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Beautiful Thing (1996), Yesterday (2019) and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010). She has been married to Sanjeev Bhaskar since 21 January 2005. They have one child. She was previously married to Chandra Shekhar Bhatia.

Amber Rose Revah is a British actress of Kenyan-Indian and European heritage. Revah started her film career in the award-winning LGBT film 'I Can't Think Straight' whilst finishing her Bachelor of Arts at University.

Amber Rose was then offered a role alongside actress Rachel Weisz by director Alejandro Amenabar in 'Agora'.

Amber Rose was cast as Nichole in Luc Besson's and Pierre Morels' 'From Paris With Love' alongside John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. She also starred in Lee Tamahori's 'The Devil's Double' after having already played a member of the Hussein family in BAFTA-nominated HBO/BBC series 'House Of Saddam'

She portrayed Helena Landless in BBC adaptation of Charles Dicken' The Mystery of Edwin Drood' opposite Rory Kenner and Matthew Rhys.

Amber Rose played Mary Magdalene in the 2015 box office hit 'Son Of God'. She learned Hebrew text for her role of Maacah Bat Talmai in Tom Fontana's hit television series "Borgia." She lived in Malaysia while filming two seasons of the Channel 4/PBS period drama 'Indian Summers'.

She then moved to New York to film 'Marvel's The Punisher' opposite Jon Bernthal and Ben Barnes for which she received a nomination for 'Outstanding Actress in a Drama'.

She played Dr. Grace Hogart in the Amazon Prime sci-fi series, 'The Peripheral' and CIA agent Mika Bakash in the MGM limited series 'Last Light'.

Her maternal ancestry is Polish, Italian and Spanish.

Began her career as Cassandra in the original cast of "Cats" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, followed by seasons at The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Exchange, and The Royal Shakespeare Company, where she renewed her relationship with "Cats" director Trevor Nunn, and went on to work with John Caird, and joint artistic director Terry Hands. Then came the role for which Seeta is perhaps best known - that of WPC Norika Datta in the long-running police drama, The Bill (1984) (1989-1998), for which she was voted Best Supporting Actress by The Asian Film Academy in 1995. In 1996 she received a further accolade from The Asian Film Academy, this time as Best Actress. Recently she has been in "Cruel Garden" with Rambert Dance Company, played Ariel to Alec McCowen's Prospero in "The Tempest", and she appeared at the London Palladium with her childhood heroine Cyd Charisse. She was invited to take part in the first national tour in 40 years of Britain's oldest opera company, Carl Rosa Opera, playing Prince Orlovsky in "Die Fledermaus". Seeta keeps in shape with a mixture of ballet and step classes. She studies singing with Mary Hammond.

Emilio Doorgasingh is known for Kingdom of Heaven (2005), RED 2 (2013) and Game of Thrones (2011).

Parth Thakerar was born in England, UK. He is an actor, known for Gangs of London (2020), Brassic (2019) and Vigil (2021).

Kishore Bhatt was born on 2 March 1951. He is an actor and director, known for Fan (2016), Animal (2023) and Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012).

Navinder Bhatti is known for Three Shades of Brown (2014), Gold (2018) and Amar Akbar & Tony (2015).

Simon Nagra is known for A Thing Called Love (2004), Twelfth Night (2018) and Sky Peals (2023).

Amit Shah was born in North London in 1981. His parents were originally from Kenya and grandparents from Gujarat in India. His father is an accountant and mother a health-food shop manageress.

He had never acted until he was cast as the lead in his school play at the age of 16.

Amit went on to achieve a 2:1 degree in Drama at Staffordshire University and then went on to train at LAMDA in West London.

In 2003 he was given permission by the Principal, Peter James to graduate early so that he could begin rehearsals for Bombay Dreams, a West-End musical produced by Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber and composed by AR Rahman.

Amit continued to work in television and on stage and in 2006 he was offered a part in The Royal Hunt of the Sun at the National Theatre; the same part that Sir Derek Jacobi played in the original production in 1964. He stayed on at the National Theatre to perform three plays including The Alchemist (directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner) for which he was nominated for an Ian Charleson Award. He also played a principal role in The Man of Mode, alongside Tom Hardy, Rory Kinnear and Hayley Atwell.

After a variety of television and film work he was offered the lead roles in two different productions at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

Amit then played the role of Rashid, son of Mahmud (played by Omid Djalili) in British comedy film, The Infidel, which was written by David Baddiel and also starring Richard Schiff.

In 2010 Amit was cast as Oswald in the Donmar Warehouse production of King Lear with Sir Derek Jacobi playing the lead role. The production then transferred to New York.

In 2013 Amit was offered his first big studio feature film in which he played, one of the principal roles, Mansur Kadam. The film titled The Hundred-Foot Journey, which is due for release in August 2014, is a Dreamworks feature produced by Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, directed by Lasse Hallström, music composed by AR Rahman and starring Dame Helen Mirren and Om Puri.

Amit also features as Nick Chandrakala in The Smoke (8 episodes) on Sky 1, produced by Kudos due to air from 20th February 2014.

Anjli Mohindra was born in Edgware, London to parents Sandy and Bob Mohindra. She attended West Bridgford School in Nottingham and aged twelve was accepted into the Carlton Junior Television Workshops. She began as a child actor appearing in a number of seasons on the Doctor Who franchise, The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Leicester based actor and film maker both in front and behind the camera. Always enthusiastic working with local talent on projects which would usually consist of short movies, short film clips, or show reels to exhibit their talents and excel their careers. From props to editing to sound and more very passionate yet humble actor with creative mindset. Always thriving to learn and better himself and improve each and every performance not just personally but collectively as a team as well.

Very ambitious and very supportive of local talent always supporting them to shine and bolster their confidence and skills with over a decade of experience in the film industry.

Worked on The second Jurassic World movie in 2018 as a supporting artist. Played the role of Kareem Khan in Channel 5 comedy series Borderline in 2016. Played Dr Harry Karir in BBC's Man Like Mobeen.