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, Ï€, 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.
Ajay Naidu Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ajay Naidu |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Evanston, Illinois, USA |
| Date of Birth | February 12, 1972 |
| Age(as in 2023) | 51 |
| Deathday |
Ajay Naidu Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Loins of Punjab Presents | Turbanotorious B.D.G. | 2007-01-28 | A ruthless philantrophist. A bhangra rapper. An over-protected prodigy. A reckless actress. A lovelorn businessman. An entrepreneurial yogi. And a Loi… |
| Ashes | Ashes | 2011-03-05 | A young Indian man struggles in the inner city of New York to support himself and his mentally ill brother… but their lives are unraveling and he fa… |
| 212 | Vincent | 2005-01-01 | Living in matchbox apartments and working mundane jobs in New York City, three sets of urbanites struggle to connect with each other and find love in … |
| Boy Boy Girl Girl | 2018-04-30 | A dark comedy about a gay couple trying to adopt a newborn from a drug-addict and her abusive girlfriend…. | |
| Uncle | 2020-01-15 | “Uncle” captures the essence of an Indian-American father/son relationship told through three car rides over ten years…. | |
| Touch and Go | Louis DeLeon | 1986-08-22 | A Chicago hockey star is accosted by a youth gang who attempt to rob him; after he chases them off he catches the youngest member and gives him a ride… |
| Where the River Runs Black | Segundo | 1986-09-19 | An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knows his father…. |
| The Sleepless | Vivek | 2020-08-24 | Chronic insomniacs Zach and Sophia wander the pre-dawn streets of NYC on an impromptu first date…. |
| PIA | Rakesh | 2010-01-01 | Can an android have feelings? Can true love be resurrected through technology after death? When a family in mourning encounters a mysterious wandering… |
| Office Space | Samir Nagheenanajar | 1999-02-19 | A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living… |
| 3 Days of Normal | Vik Donowitz | 2012-06-02 | 3 Days of Normal follows the story of straight-laced deputy Bill Morgan who is quite content literally living within the quaint boundaries of Washingt… |
| Once We Were Strangers | 1997-08-29 | Antonio is a seductive, charismatic Sicilian living illegally in New York. He wanders from job to job, lives as a squatter and enjoys a carefree roman… | |
| Justice | Mohammed | 2003-05-08 | A comic strip writer in NYC, still grieving over the death of a friend in 9/11, gets his publisher to agree to a limited run of “Justice”, a comic boo… |
| K-PAX | Dr. Chakaraborty | 2001-10-22 | Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own exp… |
| SubUrbia | Nazeer Choudhury | 1997-02-07 | A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults…. |
| Scotch and Milk | Armand | 1998-04-17 | A brooding self-styled swinger obsessed with things from the 1950’s loses himself in booze and night clubbing amongst similar other men. Meanwhile he … |
| Antarctica | Principle Pepp | 2020-10-15 | Two teen girls see their long-time friendship crumble from the pressures of adulthood in their last year of high school…. |
| Mister Handsome | Mister Handsome | 2011-09-15 | A love story between a grown-up girl and a mysterious friend from her childhood (plus a case against moving in with your parents)…. |
| Scooby-Doo! in Where’s My Mummy? | Prince Omar (voice) | 2005-12-13 | Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang become involved in a supernatural mystery in Egypt…. |
| The Kindergarten Teacher | Nikhil Roy | 2018-09-23 | Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she beco… |
| Pi | Farroukh | 1998-07-10 | A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future…. |
| The Honeymooners | Vivek | 2005-06-10 | Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is always coming up with get-rich-quick schemes for him and his best friend, Ed Norton, who’s always a… |
| Today’s Special | Munnamia | 2009-10-14 | Young Manhattan chef Samir rediscovers his heritage and passion for life through the enchanting art of cooking Indian food…. |
| Hotel for Dogs | ACO Jake | 2009-01-16 | Placed in a foster home that doesn’t allow pets, 16-year-old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce, turn an abandoned hotel into a home for their dog. S… |
| Perception | Kamal | 2005-01-01 | When Jen Marshall, an LA girl with a reckless personality and a laundry list of burned bridges, returns to New York and unexpected tragedy strikes, it… |
| The Good Nurse | Dr. Robert Hind | 2022-10-19 | Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth…. |
| The Accidental Husband | Deep | 2008-02-29 | Emma, a radio host, is about to be married to Richard, her perfect match. But right before her wedding, she learns she’s already married to Patrick, a… |
| The War Within | Naved | 2005-09-30 | A Pakistani involved in a planned attack in New York City experiences a crisis of conscience…. |
| More Dogs Than Bones | Andy | 2000-07-14 | A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed…. |
| Montana | Ives | 1998-01-16 | A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss’s runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow… |
| Vice Versa | Dale | 1988-02-25 | A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa…. |
| Dinner Rush | Ademir the Matre’d | 2000-09-01 | One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to h… |
| Lost Cat Corona | Amir | 2017-02-24 | A play-it-safe guy must search for his wife’s missing cat, bringing him face-to-face with the colorful, wacky, and sometimes, the more dangerous eleme… |
| The Wrestler | Medic | 2008-09-07 | Aging wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin’ to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly bru… |
| Thorp | Pat | 2020-10-23 | After fleeing Earth in the late 80s, an alien returns to his childhood home in search of his best friend. As he gets closer to finding her, his myster… |
| Bad Santa | Hindustani Troublemaker (uncredited) | 2003-11-26 | A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the … |
| My Giant | Hot Dog Vendor | 1998-04-10 | Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant with a tall talent for friendship named Max…. |
| Alchemy | Best Man | 2005-04-25 | Can an university computer scientist (Cavanagh) make a woman fall in love with his interactive computer before she succumbs to a well-known professor?… |
| Righteous Kill | Dr. Chadrabar | 2008-09-11 | Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; i… |
| Falling Up | Paco | 2009-09-29 | A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where h… |
| Scary Movie 3 | Sayaman | 2003-10-24 | In the third installment of the Scary Movie franchise, news anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video ta… |
| Requiem for a Dream | Mailman | 2000-10-06 | The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how i… |
| Hannibal | Perfume Expert | 2001-02-08 | After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again wh… |
| Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground | Prashant (segment “Honey-Getter”) | 1997-07-24 | The actual experiences of New York City subway riders are dramatized in a collection of 10 intriguing and very different vignettes. The tales showcase… |
Ajay Naidu Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Ashes | Director | 2011-03-05 | A young Indian man struggles in the inner city of New York to support himself and his mentally ill brother… but their lives are unraveling and he fa… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Ashes | Writer | 2011-03-05 | A young Indian man struggles in the inner city of New York to support himself and his mentally ill brother… but their lives are unraveling and he fa… |
Credit: TMDB
Checkout The More Celebrities Profiles in Biography World