Denzil Smith

Actor

Birthdate: November 6, 1960 (65 Years Old)

Birthplace: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Denzil Smith is a versatile Anglo-Indian actor, known for playing the role of Jinnah in Viceroy's House (2017), The Lunchbox (2013), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), the Emmy award-winning television series Delhi Crime (2019) and P.O.W. Bandi Yuddh Ke (2016-17) as Lala for which he won the Indian Television Academy Award Best Actor in a Negative Role (2017). Based in Mumbai, Smith began his acting career on stage in 1988 with Pearl Padamsee's Les Liaisons Dangereuse where he first worked with Naseeruddin Shah, becoming a member of Shah's Motley Productions. By 1998, he also began working extensively with Lilette Dubey's PrimeTime Theatre in productions such as On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Sammy, August: Osage County and "Gauhar". These plays toured both India and various cities in North America, UK and Europe, South-East Asia and Australia. One of Smith's early films was Mango Soufflé (2002), which was promoted as "first gay male film from India." He then went on to play a range of characters from a Tibetan Monk in Paap (2003), a gangster against Amitabh Bachchan in Ek Ajnabee (2005), a professor in Braman Naman (2016) and Marathi film Manjha (2017), Manipuri militant in Disney's Jagga Jasoos (2017), the comedic villain in Disney's Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi (2018), detective in Badla (2019) and Dimple Kapadia's spouse in Sanjay in Christopher Nolan's Tenet (2020). More recently, Smith has returned to the small screen as the Maharaja of Kalyan in the British series Beecham House (2019).

Movies

Known For

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3

(2024)

Tenet

Sanjay (2020)

Photograph

Hasmukh Bhai (2019)

Viceroy's House

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (2017)

Jagga Jasoos

(2017)

Denzil Smith Movies

Actor

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2020 |
Tenet
Tenet
2020
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time.
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asSanjay
2019 |
Photograph
Photograph
2019
Drama, Romance
A struggling street photographer in Mumbai, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develop a connection that transforms them in ways they could not expect.
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asHasmukh Bhai
2019 |
Badla
Badla
2019
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A dynamic young entrepreneur finds herself locked in a hotel room with the corpse of her dead lover. She hires a prestigious lawyer to defend her and they work together to figure out what actually happened.
asDetective Sondhi
2018 |
Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
2018
Comedy
Harpreet Kaur, a woman who travels to China to find her fiance, gets mistakenly kidnapped by some thugs whose assignment was to abduct another woman of the same name travelling by the same flight.
asAdnan Chow
2017 |
Viceroy's House
Viceroy's House
2017
Biography, Drama, History, Romance
The final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental cha... Read all
asMuhammad Ali Jinnah
2017 |
Jagga Jasoos
Jagga Jasoos
2017
Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Join Jagga, a gifted teenage detective, who along with a female companion, is on a quest to find his missing father.
2015 |
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015
Comedy, Drama, Romance
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy, posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals, Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel) pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
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asMr. Dharuna
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as Tenzing