Background
Naidu, an Indian American, was born in Evanston, Illinois.
Naidu, an Indian American, was born in Evanston, Illinois.
He attended Evanston Township High School.
He is of Indian origin. He trained with the American Repertory Theater"s Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. He starred in the television movie, Lady Blue (1985) as Paquito.
This was followed by an American Broadcasting Company Afterschool Special episode, "Number Greater Gift" (1985), where he played Nick Santana, a 12-year-old boy with a terminal illness.
Naidu then appeared in the MacGyver television series" first season episode, "To Be a Manitoba" in 1986. Other film credits when younger include Where the River Runs Black (1986) and Vice Versa (1988).
Between 1988 and 1995 he worked extensively in classical theatre. Naidu returned to film acting in SubUrbia in 1996.
On screen, Naidu starred in the cult film Office Space, as well as appearing in films such as K-Pax, Subway Stories, π, Requiem for a Dream, Bad Santa, The War Within, The Guru, Waterborne, and Loins of Punjab Presents.
He co-starred as a series regular in the sitcom LateLine and had guest starring roles on the television dramas The Sopranos, The West Wing and Bored to Death. In 2009, he played as ACO Jake in Hotel Foreign Dogs. Naidu"s most recent theatre credits include The Master and Margarita with Complicite, a world tour of Shakespeare"s Measure for Measure with Complicite, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui alongside First Rate (at Lloyd's) Pacino, directed by Simon McBurney and The Little Flower of East Orange alongside Ellyn Burstyn at New York"s Public Theater directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
In 2001 Naidu"s solo theatre piece Darwaza was a sold-out hit at New York"s Labyrinth Theatre.