Naveen Andrews

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Naveen Andrews
File:Naveen Andrews 2025 at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (cropped).jpg
Andrews at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
Born
Naveen William Sidney Andrews

(1969-01-17) 17 January 1969 (age 57)
Lambeth, London, England
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Education
OccupationActor
Years active1991–present
Partners
Children2

Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born 17 January 1969) 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.

Early life

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Andrews was born on 17 January 1969[1] in Lambeth, London,[2] to Nirmala, a psychologist, and Stanley Andrews, a businessman, both immigrants from Kerala, India.[3][failed verification] He was raised in the Methodist Church of Great Britain.[4] In 1985, when he was 16, Andrews began a relationship with the 30-year-old Geraldine Feakins.[5]

Career

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Andrews auditioned for drama school and was accepted at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[2] His studies paid off when he won a role in Hanif Kureishi's film London Kills Me (1991).[2] Andrews starred in the 1993 BBC miniseries Buddha of Suburbia.[2] He portrayed Kip Singh in The English Patient (1996),[2] and Sayid Jarrah in the television series Lost (2004–10).[2]

In 2006, he was voted one of People magazine's World's Most Beautiful People.[6]

He starred in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996),[2] Mighty Joe Young (1998),[2] and Bride and Prejudice (2004).[2] He has also appeared in films such as Rollerball (2002), Planet Terror (2007),[2] The Brave One (2007),[2] and Diana (2013).[2]

He was Jafar in the American fantasy drama Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013–14).[2] In 2014, he provided the voice of Sabal in the video game Far Cry 4.[2] From 2015 to 2017, he starred in the series Sense8,[2] (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,[2] alongside 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.[2] In February 2025, it was announced that Andrews would voice the title role of Khan Noonien Singh in the scripted audio drama series Star Trek: Khan.[7]

Personal life

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Andrews's relationship with Geraldine Feakins lasted from 1985 to 1991. Their son, Jaisal Andrews, was born in 1992.[5] 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,[8] but in 2010, they announced that they had separated.[9][10] 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.[11]

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.[12]

He plays guitar[13] and sings, while tap dancing to his own tune as a hobby. He became a naturalised U.S. citizen on 27 May 2010.[14]

Filmography

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Film

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Key
† Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released
Year Title Role Notes
1991 London Kills Me Bike
1992 Wild West 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
2025 Last Days Sonny

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
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

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Year Title Role Notes
2014 Far Cry 4 Sabal

Audio

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Year Title Role Notes
2024 The Seneschal: A Rebel Moon Story Grigory Main role
2025 Star Trek: Khan Khan Noonien Singh Main role

Awards and nominations

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Year Association Category Project Result Ref.
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

References

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