Navin Chowdhry
Navin Chowdhry (born 1 January 1971) is a British actor. Early life. Chowdhry is of Indian-origin and was born and brought up in Bristol, England. Son of Simi Chowdhry, a well known public figure, a woman activist. In 1994 he graduated from Imperial College, London, earning a 3-year degree in biochemistry with 2:1 honours. Career. At age 16, Chowdhry made his acting debut in the 1988 film, "Madame Sousatzka" with Shabana Azmi and Shirley MacLaine. His next major role was as I.T. teacher Kurt McKenna in the successful comedy show "Teachers" in 2001–2003, and is also  well known for playing PC Sanjay Singh in "Dalziel and Pascoe". He also appeared as a possible rapist in "Judge John Deed". Chowdhry appeared in "Waking The Dead", Series 3, Episode 3, entitled "Breaking Glass", opposite Trevor Eve and Sue Johnston. In the episode, he portrays the psychologically affected "Rainman". He then starred in the Channel 4 drama series "NY-LON" as Raph. On 30 October 2005, he appeared on stage at the Old Vic theatre in London in the one-night play "Night Sky" alongside Christopher Eccleston, Bruno Langley, David Warner, Saffron Burrows and David Baddiel. In 2005 he  made a guest appearance in "Doctor Who", then starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. In 2006, he appeared in the BBC Three drama series "Sinchronicity", playing Mani. In 2009, he appeared in two episodes of the Channel 4 series "Free Agents" and featured in "Skellig". In 2010, he starred in the BBC television pilot "Reunited", playing Danny. Chowdhry has also produced projects such as the award-winning short film "This Bastard Business" and a short play entitled "Mashed". He played Anwar in the critically acclaimed 2015 BBC TV series "Doctor Foster" and in 2016 he played Sonny Desai in Series  18's first episode of "Midsomer Murders". He portrayed Nodin Chavdri in the 2017 film "". In 2019, he appeared in Sarah Rutherford's play "The Girl Who Fell" at Trafalgar Studios.