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Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born 17 January 1969)[1] is a British-American actor. He is best known for his role as Sayid Jarrah in the television series Lost (2004–2010), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as winning a Screen Actors Guild Award along with the cast. He has also appeared in films such as The English Patient (1996), Mighty Joe Young (1998), Rollerball (2002), Bride and Prejudice (2004), Planet Terror (2007), The Brave One (2007), and Diana (2013). In 2022, he portrayed Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani in the Hulu miniseries The Dropout.
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| Born | Naveen William Sidney Andrews 17 January 1969 |
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1991–present |
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| Children | 2 |
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Andrews was born on 17 January 1969 in Lambeth, London to Nirmala, a psychologist, and Stanley Andrews, a businessman, both immigrants from Kerala, India.[2] He was brought up as a Methodist.[3]
Andrews's relationship with Geraldine Feakins began in 1985, when Andrews was 16 and Feakins was 30.[4]
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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). Andrews starred in the 1993 BBC miniseries Buddha of Suburbia. He portrayed Kip Singh in The English Patient (1996) and Sayid Jarrah in the popular television series Lost (2004–10).
In 2006, he was voted one of People magazine's World's Most Beautiful People.[5]
He starred in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996), Mighty Joe Young (1998), Bride and Prejudice (2004), and as Jafar in the American fantasy drama Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013–14). In 2014, he provided the voice of Sabal in the video game Far Cry 4. From 2015 to 2017, he starred in the series Sense8 (created by The Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski) as Jonas. From 2018 to 2019, he co-starred as ex-MI6 and CIA officer Julian Cousins in the series Instinct, starring Alan Cumming and Bojana Novakovic. In 2022 Andrews co-starred with Amanda Seyfried as Theranos COO Sunny Balwani in the hulu limited series The Dropout.
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Andrews's relationship with Geraldine Feakins lasted from 1985 to 1991. Their son, Jaisal Andrews, was born in 1992.[4] He was later in a relationship with actress Barbara Hershey in Los Angeles, starting in 1998. The couple separated briefly in 2005 and, during that time, Andrews had a son with Czech-French actress Elena Eustache. He and Hershey later reconciled,[6] but in 2010, they announced that they had separated.[7][8] Andrews was in a long custody dispute with Eustache over their son, and on 7 January 2009, he was granted sole legal and physical custody.[9]
Andrews has spoken about his alcoholism and his two-year addiction to heroin in the mid-1990s. He has described an incident in which he collapsed on set and was treated by emergency services.[10]
He plays guitar[11] and sings, while tap dancing to his own tune as a hobby. He became a naturalised U.S. citizen on 27 May 2010.[12]
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Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1991 | London Kills Me | Bike | |
| 1992 | Wild West[13] | Zaf | |
| Double Vision | Jimmy | ||
| 1996 | Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love | Raj Singh | |
| The English Patient | Kip Singh | ||
| 1997 | True Love and Chaos | Hanif | |
| 1998 | Bombay Boys | Krishna | |
| Mighty Joe Young | Pindi | ||
| 1999 | Drowning on Dry Land | Darshan | |
| 2000 | A Question of Faith | William | |
| 2002 | Rollerball | Sanjay | |
| 2003 | Easy | John Kalicharan | |
| 2004 | Bride and Prejudice | Balraj | |
| 2006 | Provoked: A True Story | Deepak Ahluwalia | |
| 2007 | Grindhouse | Dr. John "Abby" Abbington | Segment: Planet Terror |
| The Brave One | Dr. David Kirmani | ||
| 2008 | Animals | Vic | |
| 2013 | Diana | Dr. Hasnat Khan | |
| TBA | The Last Days of John Allen Chau | TBA | Post-production |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1993 | The Buddha of Suburbia | Karim Amir | 4 episodes |
| 1996 | The Peacock Spring | Ravi Battacharya | Television film |
| 1998 | My Own Country | Dr. Abraham Verghese | |
| 2000 | The Chippendales Murder | Steve Banerjee | |
| 2001 | The Beast | Tamir Naipaul | Episode: "The Price" |
| 2003 | Future Tense | Miles Gupta | Unsold TV pilot |
| 2004–2010 | Lost | Sayid Jarrah | 98 episodes |
| 2006 | The Ten Commandments | Menerith | Television film |
| 2010 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Detective Ash Ramsey | Episode: "Shadow" |
| 2012 | Sinbad | Lord Akbari | 7 episodes |
| 2013–2014 | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | Jafar | 13 episodes |
| 2015–2018 | Sense8 | Jonas Maliki | 18 episodes |
| 2018–2019 | Instinct | Julian Cousins | 21 episodes |
| 2022 | The Dropout | Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani | 8 episodes |
| 2022 | The Cleaning Lady | Robert Kamdar | 5 episodes |
| 2024 | Last King of the Cross | Ray Kinnock | 8 episodes |
| 2024 | The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh | Mahesh Pradeep | 8 episodes |
Video games
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2014 | Far Cry 4 | Sabal |
Audio
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2024 | The Seneschal: A Rebel Moon Story | Grigory | Main role |
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| Year | Association | Category | Project | Result | Ref. |
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| 1996 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture | The English Patient | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Primetime Emmy Award | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Lost | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Golden Globe Award | Best Supporting Actor - Television | Nominated | ||
| 2006 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | Won | ||
| 2022 | Hollywood Critics Association | Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | The Dropout | Nominated | |
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