Career
He"s also been featured in the film East is East as well as Bhaji on the Beach. He played Gary Lobo in the Jonathan Creek episode "Danse Macabre". Harkishin was born in Paris, France, to an Indian father, Deepak, and an Italian mother, Sony.
He began acting in 1988 under the stage name James Harkishin, and played the regular character of Jose Cuervo in the children"s television series Uncle Jack.
In 2004, he was forced to take a break from Coronation Street after photographs appeared in the News of the World of him apparently taking drugs. A month earlier, he had been cautioned by police as a result of an alleged theft in Brent Cross shopping centre.
