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Roshan Seth

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A native of New Delhi, India, British character actor of theater and film Roshan Seth honed the skills he learned at 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 play Pandit Nehru in Gandhi (1982). 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 in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and David Lean's A Passage to India (1984). Seth's subsequent film credits include Mississippi Masala (1992), Street Fighter (1994), The Journey (1997) and Such A Long Journey (1998).
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He has played Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964, in four different productions: Gandhi (1982), Bharat Ek Khoj (1988), Food for Ravens (1997) and The Last Days of the Raj (2007).
Mid 1970s: Retired from acting and returned to India to pursue a career as a journalist and editor.
Appearing as Salieri in Cornell University's production of Amadeus.
He commenced 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 and editor of the quarterly journal published by the India International Centre, Delhi. 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.
His father was a biochemistry professor at Patna Medical College. His mother was a government inspector of schools.

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