Sendhil Ramamurthy

Sendhil Ramamurthy is an American actor. He is best known for the role as geneticist Mohinder Suresh in the NBC drama Heroes.

Personal life

Ramamurthy was born in Chicago on May 17, 1974. His parents immigrated to the US from India. He has one sister who is a physician. He and his sister were raised in San Antonio. There, he went to Keystone School and graduated in 1991. He is the cousin of film director Jay Chandrasekhar. Ramamurthy is married to actress Olga Sosnovska and the couple has two children. Their daughter, Halina, is four years old, and son, Alex, is two years old.

Ramamurthy attended Tufts University initially as a pre-med major to follow in his parents' footsteps. He was also a member of the Kappa Charge of Theta Delta Chi. He became interested in acting when he took an "Intro to Acting" class during his junior year as part of his graduation requirement. After participating in several plays — including Our Country's Good, he chose to change career goals. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in history and then attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, from which he graduated in 1999.<ref...
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