Biography
Denzil Leonard Smith (also credited as Denzil L Smith) is an Indian film, television and stage actor and producer. Born on 6 November 1960 in Mumbai, he began his acting career on stage in 1988 and has appeared in over 50 plays and 60 films.
Smith is known for roles including Mr. Shroff in The Lunchbox (2013), Sanjay in Tenet (2020), Mr. Dharuna in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Viceroy's House (2017) and Detective Sodhi in Badla (2019). On television he has appeared in Delhi Crime (2019) and as Lala in P.O.W. Bandi Yuddh Ke (2016–2017), for which he received the Indian Television Academy Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role. He has long associations with Motley Productions and Lillete Dubey’s PrimeTime Theatre, and has performed in international productions including Merchants of Bollywood.
