Emma
01-22-2007, 04:21 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/images/avatars/heroes/101806heroes12.jpg" width="85" height="85" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="left" border="0" alt="Heroes, NBC"> If anyone needs more evidence that creating a popular series is an inexact science, then listen to the story of an actor who narrates and stars in NBC's "Heroes" at 9 tonight on WGRZ-TV.
Sendhil Ramamurthy, who plays Mohinder Suresh, the genetics professor in India whose late father had a list of people with extraordinary abilities, had an extraordinary casting story to tell, too, at an NBC party.
His story shows how one audition can change the world - or at least the TV world. Born in Chicago and raised in San Antonio, the 30-year-old Ramamurthy studied premed at Tufts University.
"I come from a family of doctors - my mom, my dad, my sister, my uncle, my aunt," he explained. "We have every medical profession covered. I don't even need health insurance."
He also has an uncle in Lewiston who is a doctor.
Ramamurthy's parents were hoping his love of acting was just "a phase" and he'd eventually join the family business. "Now I play a doctor on TV and I get paid for it," he said between bites of a roast beef sandwich.
He studied acting at NYU and spent six years acting in England, performing in many Shakespearean plays. He came back to the States a few pilot seasons ago to try television. He immediately got a role in "Grey's Anatomy." He tried out for George O'Malley (T.R. Knight's part).
He was told he was wrong for it but said he got a consolation prize.
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Sendhil Ramamurthy, who plays Mohinder Suresh, the genetics professor in India whose late father had a list of people with extraordinary abilities, had an extraordinary casting story to tell, too, at an NBC party.
His story shows how one audition can change the world - or at least the TV world. Born in Chicago and raised in San Antonio, the 30-year-old Ramamurthy studied premed at Tufts University.
"I come from a family of doctors - my mom, my dad, my sister, my uncle, my aunt," he explained. "We have every medical profession covered. I don't even need health insurance."
He also has an uncle in Lewiston who is a doctor.
Ramamurthy's parents were hoping his love of acting was just "a phase" and he'd eventually join the family business. "Now I play a doctor on TV and I get paid for it," he said between bites of a roast beef sandwich.
He studied acting at NYU and spent six years acting in England, performing in many Shakespearean plays. He came back to the States a few pilot seasons ago to try television. He immediately got a role in "Grey's Anatomy." He tried out for George O'Malley (T.R. Knight's part).
He was told he was wrong for it but said he got a consolation prize.
<a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070122/1064657.asp" target="_blank">Click here for more!</a>