Early life

Andrews was born in Lambeth, London to Nirmala, a psychologist, and Stanley Andrews, a businessman, both Malayali Nasrani immigrants from Kerala, India. He was brought up in Wandsworth in the Methodist denomination in what he later described as a "very repressive" upbringing. At the age of 16, while at Emanuel School, he fell in love with his then-30-year-old mathematics teacher, Geraldine Feakins who he moved in with to escape his abusive home; their son, Jaisal, was born seven years later, in 1992. Andrews was shunned by his parents after this and they died before a reconciliation. He has stated that he forgives them now.

Career

Andrews auditioned for drama school and was accepted at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Ewan McGregor and David Thewlis. His studies paid off when he won a role in Hanif Kureshi's film, London Kills Me (1991). Andrews starred in the 1993 BBC miniseries Buddha of Suburbia. He portrayed "Kip Singh" in The English Patient (1996) and Sayid in the popular television series Lost (2004). In 2006, he was voted one of People magazine's World's Most Beautiful People. He starred in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996), Mighty Joe Young (1998) and Bride and Prejudice (2004). He recently starred as Jafar in the American fantasy drama Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. In 2014 he provided the voice of Sabal in the video game Far Cry 4. In 2015 he starred in Sense8 as Jonas.

Personal life

Andrews was in a relationship with schoolteacher Geraldine Feakins from 1985-91. They fell in love while Andrews was aged 16. He moved into her home in order to escape an abusive household. His parents shunned him following this and they died before ever reconciling with their son. Naveen had a son, Jaisal Andrews, in 1992. 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; however, in May, 2010, they announced that they had separated six months earlier. He has been involved in an ongoing custody dispute with Eustache over their son, and on January 7, 2009, Andrews was granted sole legal and physical custody of the child.

Andrews has spoken about his alcoholism and his two-year addiction to heroin in the mid-'90s. He has described an incident in which he collapsed on set and was treated by the emergency services.

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

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	London Kills Me	Bike
1992	Wild West	Zaf
1992	Double Vision	Jimmy
1996	Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love	Raj Singh
1996	The English Patient	Kip Singh	Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1997	True Love and Chaos	Hanif
1998	Bombay Boys	Krishna
1998	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 & Prejudice	Balraj
2006	Provoked: A True Story	Deepak Ahluwalia
2007	Grindhouse	Abby	Segment: Planet Terror
2007	The Brave One	David Kirmani
2008	Animals	Vic
2012	Creature of the Black Lagoon	Dr. David Raya
2013	Diana	Dr. Hasnat Khan

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	The Buddha of Suburbia	Karim Amir	4 episodes
1996	The Peacock Spring	Ravi Battacharya	Television movie
1998	My Own Country	Dr. Abraham Verghese	Television movie
2000	The Chippendales Murder	Steve Banerjee	Television movie
2001	The Beast	Tamir Naipaul	Episode: "The Price"
2003	Future Tense	Miles Gupta	Unsold TV pilot
2004-2010	Lost	Sayid Jarrah	91 episodes Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actor - Drama Series Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
2006	The Ten Commandments	Menerith	Television movie
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-	Sense8	Jonas Maliki	12 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Far Cry 4	Sabal	Voice actor

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