![]() In 1980 he married his agent, Jennifer Sorrell. Madhur Jaffrey continued acting and became a famous food writer, while Jaffrey moved to London, working for the Urdu section of the BBC World Service and taking other odd jobs until he found regular work in West End theatre. He was accompanied by his fellow actor and girlfriend Madhur Bahadur, whom he married in 1958 they had three children before divorcing in 1966. In 1956 he moved to New York on a Fulbright Scholarship to study drama, continuing to perform Shakespeare. ![]() He worked as an English announcer for All India Radio, where he began to write and perform, and joined a theatre group in Delhi, performing classics of English literature by Shakespeare, Wilde and others. He worked across theatre, film, television and radio, while taking equally seriously the role of bon vivant and playboy in his private life, as described in his 1998 autobiography, Saeed: An Actor’s Journey.īorn in born in Malerkotla, then a Muslim princely state in Punjab, to a peripatetic medical doctor, Jaffrey took his degree in English from the prestigious Allahabad University. ![]() Saeed Jaffrey was one of the few Indian actors who became as famous in the West as in his home country, and was equally loved for his popular comedies and his serious roles. Saeed Jaffrey, centre, in Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players (1977) ![]()
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