Simon Nagra

{{Short description| British Asian radio, television and theatre actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2013}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2013}}{{Infobox person | name = Simon Nagra | occupation = Radio, television and theatre actor }}

'''Simon Nagra''' is a British Asian radio, television and theatre actor. Television roles include Ash Parmar in the BBC soap opera ''Doctors'' in 2007,<ref name="Parmars">{{cite web |title=Ketchup on That? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007cjrl |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 July 2023}}</ref> as well as roles in ''Casualty'', ''The Bill'', ''EastEnders'', ''Dalziel and Pascoe'', ''The Break'', and others.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Simon Nagra|url=https://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/ensemble/simon-nagra.html|access-date=2020-07-17|website=birmingham-rep.co.uk}}</ref>

In 2017 he appeared in the ''Midsomer Murders'' episode "Red in Tooth & Claw" as Dhruv Varma. He also appeared in the TV mini-series ''Three Girls'' as Daddy and the comedy-drama ''Man Like Mobeen'' as Uncle Habib.

==Theatrical work== Nagra has also worked extensively in theatre, including ''The Revenger's Tragedy'', ''Rafta, Rafta...'', ''Haroun and the Sea of Stories'' (National Theatre); ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (RSC);<ref>{{Cite web|title=Simon Nagra {{!}} BBA Shakespeare|url=https://bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/people/simon-nagra|access-date=2020-07-17|website=bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk|language=en}}</ref> ''Play to Win'' (Soho); ''The Deranged Marriage'' (Rifco, Theatre Royal Stratford);<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dattani|first=Meera|date=20 September 2004|title=A British Asian Deranged marriage – reviewed|url=http://www.asiansinmedia.org/news/article.php/theatre/608|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040923065845/http://www.asiansinmedia.org/news/article.php/theatre/608|archive-date=2004-09-23|website=asiansinmedia.org}}</ref> ''East is East'' (Oldham Coliseum);<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rossmore Management|url=https://rossmoremanagement.com/clients/simon-nagra|access-date=2021-07-11|website=rossmoremanagement.com|language=en-GB}}</ref> ''A Song for a Sanctuary'' (Lyric Hammersmith); ''Embryo of Death'' (Young Vic); and others.

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== External links== *{{IMDb name|id=1368647|name=Simon Nagra}} *{{British Comedy Guide|people|simon_nagra}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20200718004426/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bbd69092d ''Simon Nagra''] at the British Film Institute{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert – if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}

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