A native of New Delhi, India, British character actor of theater and film Roshan Seth honed the skills he learned at London's Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in British repertory theater. His first break came in Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which toured in 1972. Seth entered feature films in Richard Lester's Juggernaut (1974), but because subsequent filmmakers only wanted Seth for ethnic roles, his career abruptly stalled. Discouraged, he abandoned acting and returned to India, where he worked as an editor and journalist until the early '80s, when Richard Attenborough asked Seth to play Pandit Nehru in Gandhi (1982). Shortly thereafter, Seth essayed Indian author Victor Mehta and toured the globe in playwright David Hare's biography A Map of the World. After the play's Broadway run, Seth's movie career took off, with roles in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and David Lean's A Passage to India (1984). Seth's subsequent film credits include Mississippi Masala (1992), Street Fighter (1994), The Journey (1997) and Such A Long Journey (1998).

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Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Arthur F. Repola, Roshan Seth, Raj Singh, Philip Stone, and Yash Agnihotri in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Saeed Jaffrey and Roshan Seth in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Roshan Seth in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Roshan Seth and Gordon Warnecke in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Harrison Ford and Roshan Seth in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Roshan Seth in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Harrison Ford, Roshan Seth, and Philip Stone in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, and Ke Huy Quan in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Kylie Minogue, Ming-Na Wen, Grand L. Bush, Andrew Bryniarski, Byron Mann, Wes Studi, Jay Tavare, and Peter Navy Tuiasosopo in Street Fighter (1994)

Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jake Gyllenhaal in Proof (2005)

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