Madhav Sharma (born 12 November 1939) is an Indian-British actor.

Early life

Sharma studied at the

Scottish Church College Scottish Church College is a college affiliated by Calcutta University, India. It offers selective co-educational undergraduate and postgraduate studies and is the oldest continuously running Christian liberal arts and sciences college in A ...

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

, India and later, at the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Senat ...

in Bloomsbury, London. Following the death of his mother, Sharma was raised in

Bangalore Bangalore (), List of renamed places in India, officially Bengaluru (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan area, metropolitan population of a ...

by his grandfather and aunt, who was an ardent freedom fighter and social activist on behalf of

Dalit Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming ...

children. His uncles, K. Venkataraman, K. S. Sanjivi and K. Swaminathan, all have been conferred the prestigious Padma Awards of India in various fields.

Filmography

Film

After graduating from

RADA The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Se ...

, Sharma decided to pursue a career in theatre and changed his stage surname to Sharma. He played the role of Patel, a lunar penal colony prisoner in the third episode of the 1973 '' Doctor Who'' story ''

Frontier in Space ''Frontier in Space'' is the third serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. The serial was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 24 February to 31 March 1973. It was the last serial to ...

''. He played Siddique in the 2002 theatrical production ''Calcutta Kosher''. He would next enact the role of

Sir Toby Belch Sir Toby Belch is a character in William Shakespeare’s ''Twelfth Night''. He is Olivia's uncle. Character Sir Toby is an ambiguous mix of high spirits and low cunning. He first appears in the play's third scene, when he storms onto the stag ...

in ''

Twelfth Night ''Twelfth Night'', or ''What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Vi ...

'', in the West End. He voiced the character, Vikram, in the 2012 survival horror game

ZombiU ''ZombiU'' is a first-person survival horror video game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and published by Ubisoft. It was released for the Wii U as one of its launch games in November 2012. In the game, the player assumes control of a human ...

. He played the part of Prem Mandal in '' Coronation Street''. He later joined '' EastEnders'', with his role Arshad Ahmed commencing on 1 January 2018. He departed the show on 1 November 2019. He appeared as Suresh Dhanar, in an episode called "Who Wants to be Told Bad News" from the seventies TV series '' Public-Eye''.

Personal life

Sharma was formerly married to the British actress

Jenny Seagrove Jennifer Ann Seagrove (born 4 July 1957) is an English actress. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and first came to attention playing the lead in a television dramatisation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's '' A Woman of Substance'' ...

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