Art Malik

About:

Born Athar Ul-Haque Malik in Bahawalpur Pakistan, Art Malik as he has become widely known, moved with his parents to South London in 1955 where his father would pursue his career in ophthalmic surgery. He was educated in England (apart from a year at school in Quetta, Balochistan when he was ten) and he finished his education by training to become an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

He began his career somewhat auspiciously working with both the Old Vic and The Royal Shakespeare Company but his wider fame was ensured with a phenomenal year in 1984 in which he starred in the widely acclaimed British television mini-series The Jewel in the Crown, and in David Lean’s phenomenally successful film adaptation of E M Forster’s A Passage to India and the equally popular television adaptation of M M Kaye’s The Far Pavilions.

To cement his role as one of Pakistan’s most successful exports he then proceeded to star in such blockbusters as The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton’s 1987 Bond movie and True Lies (1994) with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Along side his film success has been a series of theatrical hits in particular Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink and a brace of highly popular doctors on television, first in ABC’s Hothouse and then on the BBC’s Holby City.

He lives in London with his wife the actress Gina Rowe and their two children Jessica and Keira.

Selected Filmography:

Nina's Heavenly Delights
The Path to 9/11 (TV)
Dalziel and Pascoe (TV)
Holby City (TV Series)
True Lies