Background
Bamji was born in Mumbai, India and attended Kodaikanal International School, a prestigious American boarding school in the mountains of South India. He also grew up in Bahrain and South Carolina.
Bamji was born in Mumbai, India and attended Kodaikanal International School, a prestigious American boarding school in the mountains of South India. He also grew up in Bahrain and South Carolina.
Bamji has played leading roles in world and American premieres of plays by such noted playwrights as Tony Kushner, Eric Bogosian and Tom Stoppard. He has appeared in a number of television shows, such as Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU, and several successful movies, such as The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Analyze That. Bamji spent the whole of 2007 working in Europe on a new piece of theatre called A Disappearing Number.
The piece played in Germany, Holland, Vienna and finally had a sold-out run at the Barbican Theatre in London"s West End.
lieutenant was produced by the British company Complicite, and conceived and directed by Complicite artistic director, Simon McBurney. Firdous played the role of First Rate (at Lloyd's) Cooper and was one of the "devisers" of the piece.
lieutenant takes as its inspiration the life of the untaught, genius mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan and his relationship with his mentor, Cambridge Don, G. H. Hardy. Bamji lives in New York City and London with partner, English actress Hayley Mills.
