Jimi Mistry

Jimi Mistry (born 1973 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England) is a British Asian actor of Indian Parsi descent.

Mistry was born to an Nepalese father and an Irish mother. He went to St James' Catholic High in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport from 1985-1988 before his family relocated to Cardiff where he attended Radyr Comprehensive School. He then trained at the Birmingham School of Acting.

Mistry first gained exposure playing a gay doctor, Fred Fonseca, on the British soap opera "EastEnders". He also played a gay man in Touch of Pink, a romantic comedy about an Canadian Ismaili Muslim man and its troubled relationships with his lover and his mother.

He then starred in his first American film, "The Guru", where he played Ramu Gupta, an Indian dance teacher who moves to America to be a star. Mistry next starred in the British comedy "The Truth About Love".

In summer of 2007, he started filming for the new E4 teen drama, "Nearly Famous". The show subsequently began airing in November 2007.

Mistry has been married since 2001. He and his wife Meg have one child.

elected credits

*"East is East" (1999)
*"Born Romantic" (2000)
*"The Mystic Masseur" (2001)
*"My Kingdom" (2001)
*"The Guru" (2002)
*"Things To Do Before You're 30" (2004)
*"Ella Enchanted" (2004)
*"Touch of Pink" (2004)
*"The Truth About Love" (2004)
*"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (2005)
*"Blood Diamond" (2006)
*"Partition" (2007)
*"RocknRolla" (2008)

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