Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-09-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Film/TV
He played the interrogator in Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, a Pakistani police captain in A Mighty Heart, the remote immigrant father in The Namesake. Slumdog director Danny Boyle says, “He is a touchstone connecting two worlds”. Some have dubbed him as “Asia’s Finest Actor”.
Born in 1962, Irrfan Khan grew up in Jaipur, a city of crumbling palaces in the north Indian desert, as the eldest son of a conservative, aristocratic Muslim family. He enrolled in the National School of Drama in New Delhi before landing a fleeting appearance in Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay. 18 years later, he has received recognition for his roles in The Warrior (2001), Maqbool (2003), Haasil (2004), The Namesake (2006), A Mighty Heart (2007), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Billu (2009), New York, I Love You (2009), and Vodafone commercials. He has won two Filmfare Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Here’s a scene from The Namesake:
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