Naveen William Sidney Andrews is a British-born American actor. He is best known for portraying Kip in the film The English Patient and Sayid Jarrah on the American television series Lost. Andrews was born in Lambeth, London, the son of Nirmala, a psychologist, and Stanley Andrews, a businessman, both Malayali Nasrani immigrants from Kerala, India. He was brought up in Wandsworth, South London, and had what he has described as a "very repressive" upbringing. Andrews was brought up in the Methodist denomination. At the age of sixteen, while at Emanuel School, he fell in love with his... mathematics teacher, Geraldine Feakins; seven years later they had a son, Jaisal, born in 1992. Andrews auditioned for drama school and was accepted at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Ewan McGregor and David Thewlis. His studies paid off when he won a role in Hanif Kureshi's film, London Kills Me . Andrews starred in the 1993 BBC miniseries Buddha of Suburbia. He portrayed Kip in The English Patient and Sayid in the popular television series Lost . In 2006, he was voted one of People magazine's World's Most Beautiful People.
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