Born Athar Ul-Haque Malik in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, Art Malik moved with his parents to South London in 1955.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 hugely 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.
Since then he has been frequently seen on television, in film and on stage.
