Ajay Naidu

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Feb 12, 1972 (53 years old)

Ajay Naidu

Known For

Bunny
1h 27m
Movie 2025

Bunny

Two best friends rally the neighbors in their tenement building to help them hide a dead body over the best/worst night of their lives.

The Zombie Wedding
1h 42m
Movie 2023

The Zombie Wedding

Based on the hit interactive play (premiered in 2015). The first-ever wedding between a Human Bride and a Zombie Groom. The human guests need to learn how to behave. WWN reporters cover the wedding - while trying to get out alive.

The Magnificent Meyersons
1h 28m
Movie 2023

The Magnificent Meyersons

A complicated New York City family as they discover on one extraordinary day that although life-and family-can sometimes shock you - it can also lead to miraculous new places.

The Good Nurse
2h 1m
Movie 2022

The Good Nurse

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

Thorp
1h 43m
Movie 2020

Thorp

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 mysterious past gets closer to catching him.

Antarctica
1h 22m
Movie 2020

Antarctica

Two teen girls see their long-time friendship crumble from the pressures of adulthood in their last year of high school.

The Sleepless
1h 27m
Movie 2020

The Sleepless

Chronic insomniacs Zach and Sophia wander the pre-dawn streets of NYC on an impromptu first date.

Uncle
0h 12m
Movie 2020

Uncle

"Uncle" captures the essence of an Indian-American father/son relationship told through three car rides over ten years.

The Kindergarten Teacher
1h 36m
Movie 2018

The Kindergarten Teacher

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 becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.

Boy Boy Girl Girl
0h 11m
Movie 2018

Boy Boy Girl Girl

A dark comedy about a gay couple trying to adopt a newborn from a drug-addict and her abusive girlfriend.

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.

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