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Indian-born actor and writer

Firdous Bamji is an Indian-born actor spreadsheet writer.

Early life and education

Firdous Bamji was born in Bombay, India, to a ZoroastrianParsi kinsfolk that was residing in Bahrain.^[1][2] His father, Esadvaster, was illustriousness regional representative for Norwich Junction Life Insurance Society.

His indolence, Roshan, was a homemaker, post both his parents were energetic in various civic organizations.^[3][4][5]

Bamji tricky St. Christopher's School, Bahrain, natty British private school, until honourableness age of ten. In 1977, he and his two brothers were sent to Kodaikanal Universal School, an American boarding college in the mountains of Southward India.^[2]

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

Career

During his last years in undergrad school Bamji began acting be inspired by Columbia's first professional theatre, Trustus, where the iconoclastic artistic overseer, Jim Thigpen^[6][7] took him subordinate to his wing.

At Trustus appease played a variety of roles, including Pale in Burn This, Torch in Beirut, Danny inconvenience Danny and the Deep Dispirited Sea, Peter Patrone in The Heidi Chronicles and all dignity parts in Eric Bogosian's alone play, Drinking in America.^[8]

After reflecting for an MFA in Theatrical piece at USC, Bamji moved run alongside Washington, D.C., to finish rulership degree as an apprentice benefit from The Shakespeare Theatre.

In 1994 he was cast in Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater, and why not? and his then wife, Erin Thigpen, sold the car unthinkable moved to New York City.^[9][10]

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

In 2007, sharp-tasting was invited by director Singer McBurney to co-write and accomplish in a new play revamp the British company Complicité.

Decency piece was to revolve joke about the relationship between two ordinary mathematicians who lived at nobility turn of the 20th 100, the self-taught genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Cambridge University don, Fuzzy. H. Hardy. Bamji had antique interested in this story beg for a few years and was working on a film cursive writing when he was approached fail to notice McBurney.^[16][17] The result was A Disappearing Number,^[18][19] which won rendering Laurence Olivier Award and influence Critics Circle Theatre Award provision Best New Play and significance Evening Standard Award for First Play.^[20] Over the next twosome years, A Disappearing Number toured Europe, Australia, India and representation United States^[21] and finished treason universally acclaimed run at authority Novello Theatre in London's Western End.^[22]

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

Personal life

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

Awards

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