Roshan Seth
- Actor
- Writer
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).
