Naveen Andrews

Co-starred with Jodie Foster in the crime drama, "The Brave One"

Starred in "Planet Terror," Robert Rodriguez's half of the goretastic double feature "Grind House" a collaboration with Quentin Tarantino

Played Menerith, a solider and stepbrother to Moses in the ABC miniseries "The Ten Commandments"

Cast in "Bride and Prejudice" a bollywood update of the Jane Austen classic directed by Gurinder Chadha

Cast as Sayid, a former Iraqi army officer on ABC's hit series "Lost"; earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations (2005) for Best Supporting Actor

Starred in the romantic comedy "Easy"

Was featured in the remake of "Rollerball"

American series debut as regular in ABC's "The Beast", playing a news producer working for a 24-hour cable network

Appeared in the independent feature "A Question of Faith"

Cast as Steve Banerjee, the founder of Chippendales, whose rise and fall was chronicled in the USA Network film "The Chippendales Murder"

Co-starred in the remake of "Mighty Joe Young"

Portrayed an Indian doctor in rural Tennessee who becomes involved in educating and treating locals infected with HIV in the Showtime film "My Own Country", based on the memoir of Dr Abraham Verghese

Cast as a lusty Indian royal in "Kama Sutra", helmed by Mira Nair

Had breakthrough role as Kip, a Sikh who defuses land mines and romances a Canadian nurse (Juliette Binoche), in the Oscar-winning "The English Patient"

Reunited with Kureishi as lead in the BBC adaptation of "The Buddha of Suburbia"

First lead in a feature, "Wild West"

First major film role in the psychological thriller "Double Vision"

Feature debut, as Bike in Kureishi's "London Kills Me"

Acted onstage in "My Beautiful Laundrette", directed by Hanif Kureishi (date approximate)

Acted in the British TV productions "The Frontier" and "The Peacock Spring". among others

As a teen, performed in a band as lead guitarist and singer

At age 16, left home after clashing with father over his desire to be an actor; moved in with a math teacher who became his guardian

Raised in Wandsworth, a section of south London

While in drama school, performed in various plays including "King Lear" (as Gloucester), Lorca's "Blood Wedding", and "Two Flanks and a Passion"