Kabir Bedi is an Indian actor with a global presence. He began his career in Indian theater and then moved on to Hindi films. Bedi is the only international actor from India to have originated from Bollywood, worked in Hollywood, and become a big star in Europe. As a stage actor, Kabir has performed Shakespeare’s Othello as well as portrayed a mad historical Indian king, Tughlaq, and a self-destructive alcoholic in The Vultures. In London, he also starred in The Far Pavilions, the West End musical adaptation of MM Kaye’s novel, at the Shaftesbury Theater. In Toronto, he played Emperor Shah Jahan at the Luminato Festival, a play written by noted Canadian playwright John Murrell and directed by Tom Diamond.  Kabir Bedi has played some of the choicest extensive roles on American Television – on prime time and day time, series and miniseries –Hallmark’s African Epic Forbidden Territory, Ken Follett’s On Wings of Eagles and Red Eagle being some of the notable roles. In Europe, his greatest success was Sandokan, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate set in British colonial times; an Italian-German-French TV series which broke viewership records across Europe. Kabir recently starred in a prime time Italian television series, Un Medico in famiglia, on RAI TV, the country’s biggest broadcaster.  For over a year, Kabir starred in The Bold and the Beautiful, the second most-watched television show in the world, seen by over a billion people in 149 countries. He recently had his own cinematic talk show on Indian TV, Director’s Cut, a 13-part special series interviewing the country’s leading directors.