Naveen Andrews

Naveen William Sidney Andrews ( born January 17, 1969 in London ) is a British actor. Andrews is best known for his roles in The English Patient and the television series Lost.

Personal life

Andrews is of Indian descent and grew up in London. In his school days he had a relationship with his mathematics teacher, from which emerged his first son. Beginning of the 90 suffered Andrews under a alcohol and heroin addiction. His film career ended for the time being and he went to rehabilitation in the United States.

Andrews was until the end of 2009 romantically involved with actress Barbara Hershey, both met during the filming of Drowning on Dry Land (1999) know. This relationship had a brief interruption in 2005. From this period dates Andrews ' second son he has with the Czech Elena Eustache, which is now working as an actress.

Career

After school, Andrews went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Thus he got his first role in the 1991 film London creates all of Hanif Kureishi. His breakthrough reached as Kip in The English Patient. From 2004 to 2010 he starred in the television series Lost, Sayid Jarrah the Iraqis.

The longest of his career so far impressed the mystery series Lost, also to a wider audience has been known by the Andrews. The role of the Iraqi Sayid that he embodied in it from 2004 to 2010, Andrews described in an interview as that of a man of violence is used, but still a romantic streak has. He also described in this interview his rather negative impression of the third season of Lost as follows: " [ ... ] Because it really had the impression that there overcame the story and the script writers just forced Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have during the. time advocated that the series is discontinued. What they have achieved is that the series is definitely terminated after the sixth season, so the quality can only increase. Hope I [...]. "

Filmography (selection)

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