Renu Setna
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Renu Setna is a British actor. His roles on television include the shopkeeper Mr. Kittel in In Sickness and in Health.[1] and Mr. Ram in the Only Fools and Horses episode Cash and Curry.
Career
Setna began his acting career after winning a scholarship to RADA in 1960. He has played roles in productions from Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Calcutta, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Before this he was employed building houses as a manual labourer in the 1950s.
Setna has appeared in some of Britain's most successful television series: Z-Cars, Doomwatch, I, Claudius, Cloud Burst, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Only Fools and Horses, Doctor Who, Crossroads, The Bill, Open All Hours, Are You Being Served?, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, In Sickness and in Health, Minder, Holby City, Silent Witness and Collision.[2][3] Renu Setna's stage work includes Khahil Gibran at the Commonwealth Theatre in London,[4] Shakespeare roles ,[5] Gandhi directed by Peter Stevenson with John Castle in the title role at the Tricycle Theatre,[6] and the role of the Chaplain in Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht also directed by Peter Stevenson[7] for Internationalist Theatre[8] for which he gained good notices in The Stage.[9][10][11]
On 19 May 2003, Setna was quoted in BBC News alongside Albert Moses saying that British programmes should be hiring British Asian actors rather than actors from India.[12]
Roles
Setna is known for playing Asian characters in British television and films.[13][14][15]
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References
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External links
- Renu Setna at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Renu_Setna
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- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Living people
- Male actors from Karachi
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
- British male stage actors
- British male film actors
- British male television actors
- 20th-century British male actors
- 21st-century British male actors
- Parsi people
- Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- British people of Indian descent
- British people of Parsi descent
- British Zoroastrians