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Madhav Sharma


Madhav Sharma is an Indian-born British actor and theatre director. In 2014 he was one of the three recipients of the first Dadabhai Naoroji Awards.

He was born in Calcutta, where his father K. S. Sitaram Iyer had lived for 35 years. He is the uncle of travel writer Pico Iyer. He studied at the Scottish Church College in Calcutta, India and later, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in Bloomsbury, London.

After graduating from RADA, he decided to pursue a career in theatre and changed his stage surname to Sharma.

He played the role of Patel, a lunar penal colony prisoner in the third episode of the 1973 Doctor Who story Frontier in Space.

He played Siddique in the 2002 theatrical production Calcutta Kosher.

He would next enact the role of Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, in the West End.

He played the part of Prem Mandal in Coronation Street.

He was formerly married to the British actress Jenny Seagrove.



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