Navin Chowdhry

Navin Chowdhry
Born	1971 (age 39–40) Bristol, England
Occupation	Actor
Height	173 cm

Navin Chowdhry (born 1971) is a British television actor.

Personal life

Navin Chowdhry was born and raised in Bristol, England. In 1994, Chowdhry graduated from Imperial College, London earning a 3 year degree in biochemistry, with 2:1 honours.^[1]

Career

At age 15, he made his acting debut in the 1988 film, Madame Sousatzka with Shabana Azmi and Shirley MacLaine.^[1]

His next major role was as I.T. teacher Kurt McKenna in the successful comedy show Teachers from 2001–2003,^[2] and is also well-known for playing PC Sanjay Singh in Dalziel and Pascoe. Navin also appeared as a possible rapist in Judge John Deed.

Chowdhry also appeared in Waking The Dead: Series 3, Episode 3, entitled "Breaking Glass," opposite Trevor Eve and Sue Johnston. In the episode, he portrays the psychologically affected "Rainman." He would go on to star in the Channel 4 drama series NY-LON as Raph.^[3]

On 30 October 2005 he appeared on stage at the Old Vic theatre in London in the one-night play Night Sky alongside Christopher Eccleston, Bruno Langley, David Warner, Saffron Burrows and David Baddiel. In 2005 he made a guest appearance in Doctor Who, then starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. In 2006, he appeared in the BBC Three drama series Sinchronicity, playing Mani.

In 2009 he appeared in two episodes of the Channel 4 series Free Agents and was featured in Skellig. In 2010, he starred in the BBC television pilot Reunited, playing Danny.^[4]

Chowdhry has also produced projects such as the award-winning short film "This Bastard Business" and a short play entitled "Mashed" ^[1]

Selected filmography

• Madame_Sousatzka (1988)
• King of the Wind (1989)
• The Seventh Coin (1993)
• Gulliver's_Travels_(TV_miniseries) (1996)
• Dalziel_and_Pascoe_(BBC_TV_series) (1996)
• Judge_John_Deed (2001)
• Waking_the_Dead_(TV_series) (2003)
• Teachers_(UK_TV_series) (2001-2004)
• NY-LON (2004)
• Doctor_Who (2005)
• Red_Mercury_(film) (2005)
• New_Tricks_(TV_series) (2005)
• The_Golden_Hour_(TV_series) (2005)
• Sinchronicity (2006)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} BBC Press Office.
2. ^ Teachers- Channel4.
3. ^ NY-LON- Channel4.com
4. ^ Reunited- Telegraph.co.uk

External links

• Interview
• Navin Chowdhry at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Chowdry, Navin
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Date of birth	1971
Place of birth	Bristol, England
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