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Naveen Andrews
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Birth name : Naveen William Sidney Andrews |
| Date of birth :
17 January 1969 |
| Place of birth: London, England, UK |
| Nickname:
Naven |
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| Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) |
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"The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money. It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color blind. Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles." |
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Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born January 17, 1969) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated British actor. He is known for his roles in The English Patient (1996), Grindhouse (2007) and the television series Lost. An attractive British actor of Indian descent, Naveen Andrews first rose to prominence in several roles penned by Hanif Kureishi. but it was his sterling work as Kip, the Sikh who defused land minds and romanced Juliet Binoche's nurse in "The English Patient" (1996) that caught US audience's attention.
Andrews was born in London, England, the son of Nirmala, a psychologist, and Stanley Andrews, a businessman, both immigrants from Kerala, India. He was raised in Wandsworth, South London (beside the River Thames) and had what he has described as a "very repressive" upbringing. Andrews was raised in the Methodist denomination. He was raised in Wandsworth, South London (beside the River Thames) to a fairly conservative family. When he was 16, he fell in love with his Mathematics teacher, Geraldone Feakins, who bore his child, Jaisal, in 1992. Naveen (which means "new" in Hindi)".
He went on, however and auditioned for drama school and was accepted at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Ewan McGregor and David Thewlis (of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).) His studies paid off when he won a role in Hanif Kureshi's film, London Kills Me (1991). Naveen's first role was in Hanif Kureshi's film, "London Kills Me". In 1993, Naveen was nominated by the Evening Standard Drama Awards as Most Promising Newcomer for his part in "Wild West". For the BBC's "The Buddha of Suburbia", he was nominated for Best Actor at the San Remo Film Festival.
This talented actor with the expressive eyes has continued to work steadily through out his career, and recently gained the role of Sayid Jarrah in the popular television series "Lost". Naveen has been nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his role in "Lost" and has earned much praise from critics. Naveen has one son, Jaisal, with a former girlfriend. He currently splits his time between Hawaii, where "Lost" is filmed, and Los Angeles, where he lives with his girlfriend, Barbara Hershey. A trained musician as well, Andrews got to display his vocal abilities as a Pakistani country-and-western singer in the British comedy "Wild West" (1992). Following his breakthrough role in "The English Patient", the actor was cast as a lusty monarch in Mira Nair's drama of sex and love "Kama Sutra" (also 1996), a somewhat controversial film.
During the filming in India, the cast and crew had to dupe the local censors by pretending to be making a less explicit, more family-oriented piece. In the final effort, Andrews displayed a magnetic screen presence and a charming charisma. He was also well-cast as Dr Abraham Verghese in the Showtime adaptation of the physician's memoir "My Own Country" (1998), which detailed his efforts treating locals in rural Tennessee infected with HIV and suffering with AIDS. Later that year, Andrews was back on the big screen as the guide who helps an American zoologist (Bill Paxton) find the titular ape in the remake of "Mighty Joe Young".
He is best known for his role as that "Sikh bloke" in The English Patient (1996) and as Sayid in the popular television series "Lost" (2004). He lives in Los Angeles, California with his girlfriend, actress Barbara Hershey (who is 21 years his senior.) At the age of 16, whilst at Emanuel School, he fell in love with his mathematics teacher, Geraldine Feakins with whom he had a son, Jaisal, born in 1992. Andrews was quoted in an interview later on saying that "his father would call him a prostitute" about being famous at his school "for going out with a maths teacher".
Andrews went on and auditioned for drama school. He was accepted at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Ewan McGregor and David Thewlis. His studies paid off when he won a role in Hanif Kureshi's film, London Kills Me (1991). He is best known for his role as Kip in The English Patient (1996) and as Sayid in the popular television series Lost (2004). In 2006, he was voted one of People magazine's World's Most Beautiful People. Back on the small screen, Andrews essayed the role of Steve Banerjee, the founder of Chippendales, whose rise and fall was chronicled in the middling TV-movie "The Chippendales Murder" (USA Network, 2000). The actor then made his US TV debut as a regular portraying a news producer at a 24-hour cable channel in the ABC summer series "The Beast" (2001). He then segued back to the silver screen in the remake of "Rollerball" (2002).
Andrews is in a relationship with actress Barbara Hershey, who is 21 years his senior, and they live in Los Angeles. The couple separated briefly in 2005 and, during that time, Andrews had a son, Naveen Joshua, with another woman, Elena Eustache. He and Hershey later reconciled. In July 2006, Andrews was photographed kissing an unknown woman on Manhattan Beach, but his representative said that he and Hershey are still together. Andrews also has a son, Jaisal (b. 1992) with Geraldine Feakins. Andrews has spoken about his alcoholism and his two-year addiction to heroin in the mid-90s. Andrews also plays guitar and sings.
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