| Code | DS/UK/3361 |
| Name | Bhaskar; Sanjeev (31 October 1963); OBE; British comedian and actor |
| Dates | 31 October 1963 |
| Gender | Male (cisgender) |
| Place of Birth/Origin | Ealing, Middlesex, England (born) |
| Relationships | Son of Inderjit and Janak Bhaskar (moved to UK after the partition of Indian)
Spouse of Meera Syal (actress and comedian) |
| Biography | Sanjeev Bhaskar OBE is a British actor, comedian and television presenter. He is best known for his work in the BBC Two sketch comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and as the star of the sitcom The Kumars at No. 42. He also presented and starred in a documentary series called India with Sanjeev Bhaskar in which he travelled to India and visited his ancestral home in today's Pakistan. Bhaskar's more dramatic acting roles include the lead role of Dr Prem Sharma in The Indian Doctor and a main role as DI Sunny Khan in Unforgotten. Bhaskar has been the Chancellor of the University of Sussex since 2009.
In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In 2006, Bhaskar was appointed an OBE.
He earned a degree in marketing from Hatfield Polytechnic before landing a job as a marketing executive at IBM. Bhaskar soon realised that he preferred comedy to marketing and joined forces with an old college friend, Nitin Sawhney, to start a musical comedy double act called "The Secret Asians" which they first performed in 1996 at the now-defunct Tom Allen Arts Centre in East London. |