Jimi Mistry

Jimi Mistry (born 1973) is a British actor.
Mistry was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England to an Indian Parsi father and an Irish mother. He went to St James' Catholic High in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport from 1985-1988 before his family relocated to Cardiff where he attended Radyr Comprehensive School. He then trained at the Birmingham School of Acting.
Mistry first gained exposure playing a gay doctor, Fred Fonseca, on the British soap opera EastEnders. He also played a gay man in Touch of Pink, a romantic comedy about a Canadian Ismaili Muslim man and his troubled relationships with his lover and his mother.
His debut film was East in East where he is half British half Pakistani. He then starred in his first American film, The Guru, where he played Ramu Gupta, an Indian dance teacher who moves to America to be a star. Mistry next starred in the British comedy The Truth About Love.
In 2007, he started filming for the new E4 teen drama, Nearly Famous. The show subsequently began airing in November 2007. He also starred in the 2007 Canadian film Partition, a historical drama set during the partition of India, directed by Vic Sarin and also starring Kristin Kreuk and Neve Campbell.