NAVEEN ANDREWS

'Naveen William Sidney Andrews' (born January 17, 1969) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated Indian-English actor. He is known for his roles in ''The English Patient'' (1996) and as Sayid in the U.S.A. television series ''Lost''.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Filmography

Footnotes

External links

Biography

Early life

Andrews was born in London, England to Nirmala, a psychologist, and Stanley Andrews, a businessman,^[1] both immigrants from Kerala, India.^[2] 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 religion.^[3] 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.^[4] 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".

Career

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.

Personal life

Andrews is a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. He suffered from these conditions when he lived in London during his early twenties, and his promising screen career nearly ended. Andrews moved across the Atlantic to the United States to seek rehabilitation and get his life back on track. His efforts were successful, but he says that London provides painful memories of his alcohol and heroin addictions.
Andrews is in a relationship with actress Barbara Hershey and they live in Los Angeles. The couple separated briefly in 2005 and, during that time, Andrews had a son with another woman. He and Hershey later reconciled.^[5] In July 2006, Andrews was photographed kissing an unknown woman on Manhattan Beach, but his representative said that he and Hershey are still together ^[6]
Andrews also plays guitar and sings.^[7]

Filmography

★ ''London Kills Me'' (1991) ... as Bike

★ ''Wild West'' (1992) ... as Zaf

★ ''The Buddha of Suburbia'' (1993) ... Karim

★ ''The English Patient'' (1996) ... as Lt. Kip Singh

★ ''The Peacock Spring'' (1996) ... as Ravi Battacharya

★ '' (1997) ... as Raj Singh

★ ''True Love and Chaos (film)'' (1997) ... as Hanif

★ ''Bombay Boys'' (1998) ... as Krishna Sahni

★ ''My Own Country" (1998) ... as Dr. Abraham Verghese

★ ''Mighty Joe Young'' (1998) ... as Pindi

★ ''Rollerball'' (2002) ... as Sanjay

★ ''Easy'' (2003) ... as John

★ ''Lost'' (2004-Present) ... as Sayid Jarrah

★ ''Bride And Prejudice'' (2004) ... as Mr. Balraj

★ ''The Ten Commandments'' (2006)

★ ''Provoked'' (2007) ... as Deepak

★ ''Grindhouse'' (2007) ... as Abby

★ ''The Brave One'' (2007) ... as David

Footnotes

1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=359136&in_page_id=1773
2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/08/30/bvnaveen30.xml&page=3
3. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060410/naveen_andrews_20060410/20060410/
4. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004710/bio
5. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10741864/
6. http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1222251,00.html
7. http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=3178

External links

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★ Naveen Andrews - A Face Lost No More

★ NaveenAndrews.org - fansite

★ Naveen-addict - French fansite

★ Who is Naveen Andrews?