Ajay Naidu

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1972-02-12 (52 years old)

Place of Birth Evanston, Illinois, USA

Ajay Naidu

Biography

Ajay Kalahastri Naidu (born 12 February 1972) is an American actor. Naidu was born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Chicago, the son of Indian immigrants from Chittor District, Andhra Pradesh to the U.S. He attended Evanston Township High School. As an actor, he trained with the American Repertory Theater's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. His first professional acting job was the film Touch and Go (released in 1986) which he won from an open call, this in turn led to television jobs.He starred in the TV-movie, Lady Blue (1985) as "Paquito". This was followed by an ABC Afterschool Special episode, "No Greater Gift" (1985), where he played "Nick Santana", a 12-year old boy with a terminal illness. He then appeared in an uncredited role as "Ahmed" in the "MacGyver" TV series, during the first season, in episode, "To Be a Man" in 1986. Other film credits when younger include Where the River Runs Black (1986) and Vice Versa (1988). Between 1988 and 1995 he worked extensively in classical theatre. He returned to film acting in SubUrbia (1996), where he was praised for his role as the convenience store owner, "Nazeer Choudhury" and for which he was nominated for an independent spirit award for best supporting actor. On screen, Naidu has appeared in the film Office Space, as well as K-Pax, π, Requiem for a Dream, Bad Santa, The War Within, American Chai, The Guru, Waterborne and Loins of Punjab Presents and many more. He co-starred in the sitcom LateLine and had guest starring roles on the television dramas The Sopranos, in the episode entitled Big Girls Don't Cry, as well as The West Wing. In 1997, Naidu was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his role in the independent film subUrbia. Naidu has been working extensively with musicians from the Asian underground music movement for many years and his vocals have appeared on many records most notably Talvin Singh's mercury award winner "OK". In 2006 he directed his first feature film Ashes which came out in 2010. His most recent Theatre credits include A world tour of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure with Simon McBurney's Theatre Complicite, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui alongside Al Pacino, and The Little Flower of East Orange at New York's Public Theater. He is currently engaged to actress Heather Burns. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ajay Naidu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

2024
Elsbeth

as Martin Wali

2023
The Zombie Wedding

as Brick Rivers

2023
2022
The Good Nurse

as Dr. Robert Hind

2022
Uncoupled

as Raffi

2022
WeCrashed

as Randall

2021
Dr. Death

as Dr. Sasani

2020
Thorp

as Pat

2020
Antarctica

as Principle Pepp

2020
The Sleepless

as Vivek

2020
2018
2018
2017
2015
Blindspot

as Shohid Akhtar

2013
The Blacklist

as Mahmoud Iqbal

2012
3 Days of Normal

as Vik Donowitz

2011
Mister Handsome

as Mister Handsome

2011
Ashes

as Ashes

2010
PIA

as Rakesh

2009
Today's Special

as Munnamia

2009
Falling Up

as Paco

2009
Hotel for Dogs

as ACO Jake

2009
Stream

as Kyle

2009
2009
2008
Righteous Kill

as Dr. Chadrabar

2008
The Wrestler

as Medic

2007
Loins of Punjab Presents

as Turbanotorious B.D.G.

2006
30 Rock

as Asif

2005
2005
2005
Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?

as Prince Omar (voice)

2005
Alchemy

as Best Man

2005
Perception

as Kamal

2005
Confess

as Account Executive

2005
212

as Vincent

2004
The Jury

as George Edwards

2003
Bad Santa

as Hindustani Troublemaker

2003
Scary Movie 3

as Sayaman

2003
Justice

as Mohammed

2002
Fillmore!

as Sanjay (voice)

2002
Monk

as Masul the Cabbie

2001
K-PAX

as Dr. Chakaraborty

2001
Hannibal

as Perfume Expert

2000
2000
Dinner Rush

as Ademir the Matre'd

2000
You Are Here*

as Sanjay

1999
Office Space

as Samir Nagheenanajar

1999
The West Wing

as Rakim Ali

1999
The Sopranos

as Omar

1998
Pi

as Farroukh

1998
Scotch and Milk

as Armand

1998
My Giant

as Hot Dog Vendor

1998
Montana

as Ives

1997
Subway Stories

as Prashant (segment "Honey-Getter")

1997
SubUrbia

as Nazeer Choudhury

1997
King of the Hill

as Delivery Guy / Malik (voice)

1988
Vice Versa

as Dale

1986
Touch and Go

as Louis DeLeon

1985
No Greater Gift

as Nick Santana

1985
MacGyver

as Ahmed

1985
Lady Blue

as Paquito

Director

2011
Ashes

as Director

Writer

2011
Ashes

as Writer