Actors - Kabir Bedi

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Kabir Bedi is an Indian international film actor, most famous for his roles of Sandokan in the TV series Sandokan and Gobinda in the James Bond film Octopussy
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Biography

Bedi was born on January 16, 1946 in Bombay, India.

He was married to Odissi dancer Protima Bedi. Their daughter Pooja Bedi was an actress in Hindi films. He was also married to TV presenter Nikki Bedi.

Currently, Kabir Bedi is based in London and Bombay.

Acting history

Over the last three decades, Bedi has acted in over 60 Bollywood films, with starring roles in Kuchche Dhaage, Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain, and Khoon Bhari Maang. He also played a Mafia Don in Feroz Khan’s Yalgar.

Bedi shot onto the international stage in the role of Sandokan, a Malaysian, Robin-Hood-like pirate created by the Italian author Emilio Salgari. The Sergio Solima directed mini-series was filmed in 1976 on location in South-East Asia. He later reprised the Sandokan role in two films shot in the 1990s.

In the James Bond film Octopussy, he played Gobinda, the villain who battled Roger Moore from start to finish. In Europe, his greatest success was the title role in “Sandokan”, a record-breaking Italian-German-French television series, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate and freedom fighter during British colonial times. Many also saw Bedi as Prince Omar in the TV series The Bold And The Beautiful for over a year.

Bedi has also starred in the Bollywood epic, Akbar Khan’s The Taj Mahal, as the embattled Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of the world’s greatest monument to love.

He is currently starring in Deepa Mehta's next film, Kamagata Maru with Amitabh Bachchan, John Abraham.

Voting memberships

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Screen Actors Guild
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
The British Actors' Equity Association

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