Naveen William Sidney Andrews is a British actor. He is best known for portraying Sayid Jarrah in the television series "Lost", Kip in the film "The English Patient" and Sanjay in the 2002 remake of "Rollerball". For his role on "Lost", Andrews was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2006, a Primetime Emmy Award in 2005 and received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2006.
Background
Ethnicity:
Naveen's parents are immigrants from Kerala, India.
He was brought up in Wandsworth, South London, and had what he has described as a "very repressive" upbringing. Andrews was brought up in the Methodist denomination.
Andrews has spoken about his alcoholism and his two-year addiction to heroin in the mid-'90s.
Andrews also plays guitar and sings, while tap-dancing to his own tune as a hobby. He became a naturalised US citizen on 27 May 2010.
Education
At the age of 16, while at Emanuel School, he fell in love with his mathematics teacher.
Andrews auditioned for drama school and was accepted at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Ewan McGregor and David Thewlis. His studies paid off when he won a role in Hanif Kureshi's film, "London Kills Me" (1991).
Career
Andrews starred in the 1993 BBC miniseries "Buddha of Suburbia". He portrayed Kip in "The English Patient" (1996) and Sayid in the popular television series "Lost" (2004). He also starred in "Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love" (1996), "Mighty Joe Young" (1998) and "Bride and Prejudice" (2004).
Filmography:
"London Kills Me" (1991) as Bike
"Wild West" (1992) as Zaf
"Double Vision" (1992) as Jimmy
"The Buddha of Suburbia" (1993 TV mini-series) as Karim Amir
"The Peacock Spring" (1996) as Ravi Battacharya
"Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love" (1996) as Raj Singh
"The English Patient" (1996) as Kip
"True Love and Chaos" (1997) as Hanif
"My Own Country" (1998) as Dr. Abraham Verghese
"Bombay Boys" (1998) as Krishna
"Mighty Joe Young" (1998) as Pindi
"Drowning on Dry Land" (1999) as Darshan
"A Question of Faith" (2000) as William
"The Chippendales Murder" (2000) as Steve Banerjee
"The Beast as Tamir Naipaul" (1 episode, 2001)
"Rollerball" (2002) as Sanjay
"Future Tense" (2003) as Miles Gupta
"Easy" (2003) as John Kalicharan
"Bride & Prejudice" (2004) as Balraj
"The Ten Commandments" (2006) as Menerith
"Provoked: A True Story" (2006) as Deepak Ahluwalia
"Grindhouse" (2007) as Abby (segment "Planet Terror")
"The Brave One" (2007) as David Kirmani
"Animals" (2008/I) as Vic
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" as Detective Ash Ramsey("Shadow", 2010)
"Lost" as Sayid Jarrah (114 episodes, 2004–10)
"Rise of an Exile" as Atticus Benedict (2012)
"Sinbad" (UK TV series) as Lord Akbari (2012)
"Creature of the Black Lagoon" as Doctor David Raya (2012)
"Diana" as Doctor Hasnat Khan (2013)
"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" as Jafar (2013)