Spotlight on Sendhil Ramamurthy of NBC’s ‘Heroes’

December 10, 2007 by cd

Actor and physician Sendhil Ramamurthy was born on May 17, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois, best known for his role as Mohinder Suresh on the hit tv series “Heroes“. His parents are both Indian physicists, too. Ramamurthy grew up in San Antonio, Texas with his sister and was a graduate of Keystone School.

After high school, he went to become pre-med student at Tufts University, where he became a member of the Theta Delta Chi Kappa fraternity. It was also in the said university where Ramamurthy first felt an attraction towards the art of acting, and he pursued this attraction by performing in several school productions. When he acquired his degree in history, he enrolled at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, and from there went on to work for other theater companies around Manhattan. As of 2007, his television credits include Ellen, Casualty, Guiding Light, Grey’s Anatomy and Numb3rs.

Currently, he is busy with his role on the NBC hit series, Heroes. Mohinder finds himself thrust into the dangerous, yet exciting, world of the extraordinary when his father, a geneticist, is murdered for uncovering the mystery behind the evolution of man into beings with superhuman powers. Mohinder must protect the information that his father left behind, all the while trying to figure out the questions that continue to shroud his father’s work.