| rdfs:comment | - Ajay Naidu is an American actor and director. He appeared in Requiem for a Dream and Office Space.
- Ajay Naidu played Rakim Ali in the episode Isaac and Ishmael. He is best known for his role in Office Space (with Gary Cole, Stephen Root and Richard Riehle). He also appeared in K-PAX (with Mary McCormack), Pi, Requiem for a Dream (with Dylan Baker), Bad Santa and starred on the television program Lateline.
- Ajay Naidu's first professional acting job was in the film Touch and Go (1986), which he won from an open call. 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. Naidu then appeared in the MacGyver TV series' first season episode "To Be a Man" in 1986. Other film credits when he was younger include Where the River Runs Black (1986) and Vice Versa (1988).
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| abstract | - Ajay Naidu is an American actor and director. He appeared in Requiem for a Dream and Office Space.
- Ajay Naidu's first professional acting job was in the film Touch and Go (1986), which he won from an open call. 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. Naidu then appeared in the MacGyver TV series' first season episode "To Be a Man" in 1986. Other film credits when he was younger include Where the River Runs Black (1986) and Vice Versa (1988). Between 1988 and 1995 he worked extensively in classical theatre. Naidu 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 starred in the cult film Office Space, as well as appearing in films such as K-Pax, Subway Stories, Requiem for a Dream, Bad Santa, The War Within, The Guru, Waterborne, Loins of Punjab Presents and many more. He was a series regular in the sitcom LateLine and had guest starring roles on the television dramas The Sopranos, The West Wing and Bored to Death. Naidu has been working extensively with musicians from the Asian underground music movement for many years as a dancer and a master of ceremonies. His vocals have appeared on many records, most notably Talvin Singh's Mercury Award winner OK. In 2006, Naidu directed his first feature film, Ashes, which had its release in 2010 and for which he won Best Actor accolades from the New York Indian Film Festival in New York and the London Asian Film Festival. Naidu's most recent theatre credits include The Master and Margarita with Complicite; a world tour of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure with Complicite; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui alongside Al Pacino, directed by Simon McBurney, and The Little Flower of East Orange alongside Ellyn Burstyn at New York's Public Theater, directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. In 2001, Naidu's solo theatre piece Darwaza was a sold-out hit at New York's Labrynth Theatre.
- Ajay Naidu played Rakim Ali in the episode Isaac and Ishmael. He is best known for his role in Office Space (with Gary Cole, Stephen Root and Richard Riehle). He also appeared in K-PAX (with Mary McCormack), Pi, Requiem for a Dream (with Dylan Baker), Bad Santa and starred on the television program Lateline.
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