Cool Indian Actors
by Kevin-172 | created - 05 Sep 2012 | updated - 13 Sep 2012 | Public
1. Erick Avari
Actor | Planet of the Apes
Erick Avari was born on April 13, 1952 in Darjeeling, India. His credits include leading roles in films from Kevin Reynolds' cult classic The Beast of War (1988) to commercial megahits such as Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), The Mummy (1999) and Planet of the Apes (2001). His comedic ...
2. Ben Kingsley
Actor | Sexy Beast
Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Ben began to act in stage plays during ...
3. Gerry Bednob
Actor | The 40 Year Old Virgin
Gerry Bednob is an actor and writer, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) and Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008).
4. Ajay Naidu
Actor | Office Space
Naidu's first professional acting job was Touch and Go (1986) which he won from an open call. He starred in the TV movie Lady Blue (1985) as Paquito. This was followed by an ABC Afterschool Specials (1972) episode ABC Afterschool Specials: No Greater Gift (1985), in which he played Nick Santana, a ...
5. Kevin Mukherji
Actor | The Terminal
Kevin Mukherji has worked with such notable directors as Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Harold Ramis, John Sayles, John McNaughton, Albert Brooks, and Patty Jenkins. Kevin Mukherji was born in Calcutta, India but grew up in the Chicagoland area. Mukherji was entertaining the neighborhood kids ...
6. Aasif Mandvi
Actor | Million Dollar Arm
Aasif Mandvi was born on March 5, 1966 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India as Aasif Mandviwala. He is an actor and producer, known for Million Dollar Arm (2014), Evil (2019) and The Proposal (2009). He has been married to Shaifali Puri since August 26, 2017.
7. Samrat Chakrabarti
Actor | NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Samrat Chakrabarti was born on August 22, 1975 in London, England. He is an actor and composer, known for NCIS (2003), Late Late (2014) and Midnight's Children (2012).
8. P.D. Mani
Actor | The Runaways
P.D. Mani was raised in New York living in the Bronx, Queens and finally residing on Long Island. He arrived in Los Angeles the day OJ was running on the 405. Welcome to LA! Since then PD has been steadily working on many national commercials, including Ford motor company, Verizon Wireless, Nortel ...
9. Sendhil Ramamurthy
Actor | The Slammin' Salmon
Sendhil Ramamurthy (born May 17, 1974) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as geneticist Mohinder Suresh in the NBC sci-fi drama Heroes and Jai Wilcox in the action spy series Covert Affairs. He appeared as Abhay in the Indian film Shor in the City. He played Gabriel Lowen in The ...
10. Ronobir Lahiri
Actor | This Is Us
Ronobir Lahiri is an actor and composer, known for This Is Us (2016), You've Got Mail (1998) and Ted 2 (2015).
11. Kal Penn
Actor | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Kal Penn was born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey, to Asmita, a fragrance evaluator, and Suresh Modi, an engineer. His parents are Gujarati immigrants to America from India. He attended the Freehold Regional High School District's Performing Arts High School where he participated in the ...
12. Rory Cochrane
Actor | Argo
Rory Cochrane was born in New York on February 28, 1972, but spent his childhood in England. He then returned to the United States and was educated in New York City and trained in the drama department of NYC's LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. His first roles included a part in a docudrama ...
13. Joher Coleman
Actor | Death to Prom
Joher Coleman was born on November 25, 1968 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor, known for Death to Prom (2014), Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) and Age of Empires III (2005).
14. Kabir Bedi
Actor | Octopussy
Kabir Bedi is one of India's most famous international actors, with a career that spans from Bollywood to Hollywood and Europe, in films, television, theatre, and radio.
Kabir's Italian series "SANDOKAN" made him a major star across all of Europe.
He starred in one of the world's most-watched TV ...
15. Aziz Ansari
Actor | Parks and Recreation
Aziz Ansari was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Fatima, a medical office worker, and Shoukath, a gastroenterologist. His family is from Tamil Nadu, India. He graduated from NYU as a business major in 2004. He graduated from the South Carolina Governor's School for Math and Science in ...
16. Irrfan Khan
Actor | The Lunchbox
Born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan, in Jaipur, Rajasthan (NW India) January 7, 1967 to a Pashto-speaking Muslim family. Khan's mother, Begum Khan, was from the Tonk Hakim family and his father, Jagirdar Khan, from the Khajuriya village near the Tonk district, ran a tire business.
The Khan family name ...
17. Parvesh Cheena
Actor | Connecting...
Parvesh Cheena was born on July 22, 1979 in Naperville, Illinois, USA as Parvesh Singh Cheena. He is an actor and producer, known for Connecting... (2020), Mira, Royal Detective (2020) and Family Style.
18. Danny Pudi
Actor | Community
Danny Pudi was born on March 10, 1979 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Daniel Mark Pudi. He is an actor, known for Community (2009), DuckTales (2017) and Knights of Badassdom (2013). He has been married to Bridget Showalter Pudi since June 5, 2004. They have two children.
19. Jay Chandrasekhar
Director | Super Troopers
Jay Chandrasekhar was born on April 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Jayanth Jumbulingam Chandrasekhar. He is a director and actor, known for Super Troopers (2001), Club Dread (2004) and Beerfest (2006). He has been married to Susan Clarke since September 18, 2005. They have three children.
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