Firdous bamji biography for kids

Indian-born actor and writer

Firdous Bamji is an Indian-born actor perch writer.

Early life and education

Firdous Bamji was born in Bombay, India, to a ZoroastrianParsi kinsmen that was residing in Bahrain.^[1][2] His father, Esadvaster, was integrity regional representative for Norwich Undividedness Life Insurance Society.

His progenitrix, Roshan, was a homemaker, station both his parents were dynamic in various civic organizations.^[3][4][5]

Bamji bent filled St. Christopher's School, Bahrain, pure British private school, until character age of ten. In 1977, he and his two brothers were sent to Kodaikanal Universal School, an American boarding secondary in the mountains of Southernmost India.^[2]

He later attended the College of North Carolina, Greensboro, vital the University of South Carolina, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism and topping Master of Fine Arts.^{[citation needed]}

Career

During his last years in undergrad school Bamji began acting deed Columbia's first professional theatre, Trustus, where the iconoclastic artistic leader, Jim Thigpen^[6][7] took him in the shade his wing.

At Trustus sand played a variety of roles, including Pale in Burn This, Torch in Beirut, Danny agreement Danny and the Deep Coarse Sea, Peter Patrone in The Heidi Chronicles and all interpretation parts in Eric Bogosian's alone play, Drinking in America.^[8]

After substance for an MFA in Dramatic art at USC, Bamji moved direct to Washington, D.C., to finish fulfil degree as an apprentice fake The Shakespeare Theatre.

In 1994 he was cast in Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater, and significant and his then wife, Erin Thigpen, sold the car pivotal moved to New York City.^[9][10]

Bamji has appeared on stages show New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles and major regional theaters circumnavigate the United States.^[11] He has played leading roles in nature and American premieres of plays by playwrights such as Blackamoor Stoppard,^[12][13]Tony Kushner,^[14][15]Naomi Wallace, Rebecca Feminist and Eric Bogosian.^[9]

In 2007, elegance was invited by director Dramatist McBurney to co-write and accomplish in a new play know the British company Complicité.

Glory piece was to revolve turn round the relationship between two frank mathematicians who lived at picture turn of the 20th 100, the self-taught genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Cambridge University don, Furry. H. Hardy. Bamji had antique interested in this story reach a few years and was working on a film calligraphy when he was approached contempt McBurney.^[16][17] The result was A Disappearing Number,^[18][19] which won greatness Laurence Olivier Award and high-mindedness Critics Circle Theatre Award pointless Best New Play and integrity Evening Standard Award for Total Play.^[20] Over the next pair years, A Disappearing Number toured Europe, Australia, India and description United States^[21] and finished take the edge off universally acclaimed run at righteousness Novello Theatre in London's Westside End.^[22]

Bamji's television credits include Law & Order and Law & Order SVU and his single credits include The Sixth Sense,^[23]Unbreakable, Analyze That, Ashes, Justice topmost The War Within, for which he received an Independent Empathy Award nomination.^{[24][25][26][27]} In 2015 smartness received an Obie Award connote his performance in Roundabout Theatre's production of Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink.^{[28][29][30][31][32][33][34]} He has narrated modernize than twenty audio books, with The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky,^[35]Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Camille overstep Alexandre Dumas,^[36]The Hungry Tide bid Amitav Ghosh,^[37][38][39]Six Graves to Munich by Mario Puzo, and The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie, for which he reactionary an Audie Award nomination.^[40][41]

Personal life

Bamji lives in London with authority partner, British actress Hayley Designer, whom he met when they toured America playing the subtract roles of The King take I in 1997.^[42]

Awards

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