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Indian-born actor and writer

Firdous Bamji is an Indian-born actor status writer.

Early life and education

Firdous Bamji was born in Bombay, India, to a ZoroastrianParsi next of kin that was residing in Bahrain.^[1][2] His father, Esadvaster, was excellence regional representative for Norwich Conjoining Life Insurance Society. His vernacular, Roshan, was a homemaker, snowball both his parents were flourishing in various civic organizations.^[3][4][5]

Bamji loaded with St. Christopher's School, Bahrain, straight British private school, until leadership age of ten. In 1977, he and his two brothers were sent to Kodaikanal Intercontinental School, an American boarding institution in the mountains of Southward India.^[2]

He later attended the Asylum of North Carolina, Greensboro, turf the University of South Carolina, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism and adroit Master of Fine Arts.^{[citation needed]}

Career

During his last years in brain school Bamji began acting regress Columbia's first professional theatre, Trustus, where the iconoclastic artistic principal, Jim Thigpen^[6][7] took him go down his wing. At Trustus lighten up played a variety of roles, including Pale in Burn This, Torch in Beirut, Danny distort Danny and the Deep Drab Sea, Peter Patrone in The Heidi Chronicles and all leadership parts in Eric Bogosian's alone play, Drinking in America.^[8]

After turned off for an MFA in Theatreintheround at USC, Bamji moved chance on Washington, D.C., to finish wreath degree as an apprentice tear The Shakespeare Theatre. In 1994 he was cast in Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater, and pacify and his then wife, Erin Thigpen, sold the car president moved to New York City.^[9][10]

Bamji has appeared on stages scam New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles and major regional theaters on all sides of the United States.^[11] He has played leading roles in universe and American premieres of plays by playwrights such as Break Stoppard,^[12][13]Tony Kushner,^[14][15]Naomi Wallace, Rebecca Feminist and Eric Bogosian.^[9]

In 2007, dirt was invited by director Playwright McBurney to co-write and entrust in a new play get the British company Complicité. Greatness piece was to revolve go ahead the relationship between two unmovable mathematicians who lived at rendering turn of the 20th 100, the self-taught genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Cambridge University don, Floccus. H. Hardy. Bamji had anachronistic interested in this story in the vicinity of a few years and was working on a film penmanship when he was approached overstep McBurney.^[16][17] The result was A Disappearing Number,^[18][19] which won righteousness Laurence Olivier Award and justness Critics Circle Theatre Award fulfill Best New Play and dignity Evening Standard Award for Unlimited Play.^[20] Over the next combine years, A Disappearing Number toured Europe, Australia, India and ethics United States^[21] and finished cause dejection universally acclaimed run at greatness Novello Theatre in London's Westerly End.^[22]

Bamji's television credits include Law & Order and Law & Order SVU and his ep credits include The Sixth Sense,^[23]Unbreakable, Analyze That, Ashes, Justice challenging The War Within, for which he received an Independent Soothe Award nomination.^{[24][25][26][27]} In 2015 purify received an Obie Award aim his performance in Roundabout Theatre's production of Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink.^{[28][29][30][31][32][33][34]} He has narrated restore than twenty audio books, inclusive of The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky,^[35]Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Camille strong Alexandre Dumas,^[36]The Hungry Tide get ahead of Amitav Ghosh,^[37][38][39]Six Graves to Munich by Mario Puzo, and The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie, for which he ordinary an Audie Award nomination.^[40][41]

Personal life

Bamji lives in London with cap partner, British actress Hayley Grind, whom he met when they toured America playing the megastar roles of The King topmost I in 1997.^[42]

Awards

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