Art Malik

Born Athar-Ul-Haque Malik at 4.00a.m. on 13th November 1952, in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. At ten he lived in Quetta, near the Afghanistan border. A year later, culturally re-invigorated, he was back in Balham attending the local Grammar School. It was at Bec Grammar, that Art had his first theatrical experience, playing the title role in, "The Pen of my Aunt", in the House Drama Competition. In 1974, after dismally trying his hand at Business Studies, he won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Two very important events happened in the next three years. He stopped going out with his then current girlfriend, and started going out with Gina Rowe, a fellow student, whom he married in 1980, and with whom he has two daughters, Jessica aged 21, and Keira, 19.
In 1982, five years after leaving Guildhall, Art was cast as Hari Kumar in the internationally acclaimed "Jewel In the Crown". It was whilst filming 'Jewel...', that David Lean cast him in "A Passage to India". With the release of these two projects being virtually together in 1984, Art Malik had arrived! For the next few years Art, Gina and their daughters lived nomadic lives on location in Morrocco (Living Daylights), New York (Hothouse), Australia (Shadow of the Cobra), Thailand (Turtle Beach), and India (City of Joy) and in September 1993, to start work on "True Lies". Other films include "A Kid in the Court of King Arthur", "Clockwork Mice" and the BBC tv series Holby City, joining the cast as Professor Zubin Khan. Holby City can be seen in the UK every week on BBC1.

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