Sanjeev Kohli Bio | Wiki
Sanjeev Kohli is a British actor, comedian, and writer. He became famous for his role as shopkeeper Navid Harrid in the BBC sitcom Still Game from 2002 to 2007 and from 2016 to 2019.
Sanjeev also played Ramesh Majhu in the radio sitcom Fags, Mags and Bags from 2007 to present, and A.J. Jandhu in the BBC Scotland soap opera River City from 2015 to present. He has hosted his own television talk show Sanjeev Kohli’s Big Talk, on the BBC Scotland channel since 2019.
Sanjeev Kohli Age
Sanjeev was born on November 30, 1971, in the London Borough of Brent, United Kingdom. He is 50 years old.
Sanjeev Kohli Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in (Approx. 1. 73 m).
Sanjeev Kohli Family
He was born in London to his parents who had emigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1960s from India. Sanjeev’s mother was a social worker and his father was a teacher who became a wealthy property landlord in the Bishopbriggs suburb.
When he was three years old, the family moved to Scotland. Sanjeev’s parents could afford to move him, aged six, and his brothers Hardeep Singh and Randeep Singh to be educated by the Jesuits at St Aloysius’ College. To pay for their children’s education, their parents ran a corner shop.
Sanjeev Kohli Brother
Sanjeev has two brothers Hardeep Singh and Randeep Singh. Randeep Singh is a senior police officer with the Metropolitan Police in London. Hardeep Singh is a presenter of Sikh heritage who has appeared on various radio and television programs. He studied Law at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1990. While at university he worked in a vegetarian restaurant and worked as an usher at the Citizens Theatre.
Sanjeev Kohli Wife
Sanjeev is married to his beautiful wife named Fiona. Together, the couple has three children including Bel Kohli and Ruby. The family resides in Glasgow.
Sanjeev Kohli Education
He was educated by the Jesuits at St Aloysius’ College, a Roman Catholic school in Central Glasgow. Later, Sanjeev enrolled at Glasgow University, initially to study Medicine, but changed course to study Mathematics, gaining a first-class degree, and subsequently studied for a Ph.D.
Sanjeev Kohli Losing Gemma
In December 2006, the Sunday Mail revealed that Sanjeev would be starring in a major ITV thriller, Losing Gemma. Starring alongside Alice Eve, he played “a member of the British High Commission, who helps a young British tourist jailed in Delhi, India”.
Losing Gemma is a two-part British television thriller, based on the debut novel by Writer Katy Gardner. The screen adaptation was written by Robert Murphy, directed by Maurice Phillips, and starred Jonas Armstrong, Alice Eve, Jason Flemyng, and Rachel Leskovac.
Sanjeev Kohli Meet the Magoons
He starred as Surjit Magoon in Meet the Magoons, co-written by his brother Hardeep, for Channel 4. Meet the Magoons is a six-part comedy television series in the United Kingdom that aired in 2005. The main characters are a Punjabi family who lives in Glasgow, and owns an Indian restaurant called “The Spice”. Sanjeev also appeared in several episodes of the BBC comedy series Look Around You as Synthesizer Patel.
Sanjeev Kohli Still Game
He is best known for his role as shopkeeper Navid Harrid in the BBC sitcom Still Game from 2002 to 2007 and from 2016 to 2019. In 2014, Sanjeev joined the rest of the cast of Still Game in the comeback live show at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow. There were 21 performances of the sold-out show.
Still Game is a Scottish sitcom, produced by The Comedy Unit with BBC Scotland. It was created by Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, who played the lead characters, Jack Jarvis, Esq, and Victor McDade, two Glaswegian pensioners.
Sanjeev Kohli Edinburgh Festival
On August 21, 2007, Sanjeev presented a show called 10 Things To Hate About The Edinburgh Festival. He also sometimes appears as a pundit on BBC One Scotland’s Saturday afternoon Sportscene football program.
He made a brief cameo in a speaking role as himself in an episode of BBC’s VideoGaiden, where he received a fish in the mail as a gift from the hosts in an attempt to recreate the Nintendo game Animal Crossing. One of the hosts was Robert Florence, a writer whom Sanjeev worked with on Chewin’ the Fat.
Sanjeev Kohli Movies And Tv Shows
2014 Walter
2014 Still Game: Live at the Hydro
2015 Fried
2015 You Me and the Apocalypse
2015–present River City
2016 Cold Feet
2018 Stan & Ollie
2019 Dark Sense
2019 Shooting Clerks
2020 Lost at Christmas
2009 Hope Springs
2010 Rab C Nesbitt
2010 Angelos Epithemiou’s Moving On
2011 Gary Tank Commander
2012 Fresh Meat
2013 Bob Servant
2013 The IT Crowd
Sanjeev Kohli Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Sanjeev’s estimated net worth is $1 million.
Who Is Sanjeev Kohli
Sanjeev is a British actor, comedian, and writer. He became famous for his role as shopkeeper Navid Harrid in the BBC sitcom Still Game from 2002 to 2007 and from 2016 to 2019. He is married to his wife Fiona with who he has three children including Bel Kohli and Ruby. The family resides in Glasgow.
How Old Is Sanjeev Kohli
He is 50 years old. Sanjeev was born on November 30, 1971, in the London Borough of Brent, United Kingdom.