Biography

A 35-year member of the Screen Actors Guild and designated by a major publication as one of the "Top 50 Most Influential South Asians In the World," Nigam is a respected pioneer for having broken barriers so that a career in the entertainment industry is now deemed a viable profession for his community.

Nigam and Alec Baldwin recently partnered to launch the production banner Persona Entertainment to produce film and television content. Nigam is an executive producer on "Crescent City" in which he stars opposite Baldwin, Terrence Howard and Esai Morales. He is a producer alongside Baldwin on "Rust," a Western for writer/director Joel Souza and which stars Baldwin in the title role opposite Frances Fisher, Jensen Ackles, and Travis Fimmel. Nigam is an executive producer on the newly released "97 Minutes" and has a starring role along with Baldwin and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. He is also an executive producer on the recently released feature "Supercell" on which he has a supporting lead role alongside Baldwin, Skeet Ulrich and Anne Heche. Nigam was a producer on "Murder At Yellowstone" starring Gabriel Byrne, Thomas Jane and Richard Dreyfuss, and on Souza's "Crown Vic," serving as its lead producer with Baldwin and starring Thomas Jane, Luke Kleintank, Bridget Moynahan and David Krumholtz; the movie had its World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival and subsequently released theatrically. Previously, Nigam served as the lead producer on the feature film "Bayou Caviar," Oscar Winner Cuba Gooding Jr.'s directorial debut in which Gooding also stars opposite Oscar Winner Dreyfuss, Famke Janssen, and Katharine McPhee; the movie was released theatrically. Prior to that Nigam was the lead producer, writer, and a lead actor alongside Jason Lee in the movie "Growing Up Smith" which had a theatrical release and garnered TIME Magazine's "Pick of the Week" designation.

Nigam is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. A veteran actor, he is known as "Pandit Raj" on Netflix in Mindy Kaling's "Never Have I Ever" and his recurring role as "Dr. Raj" on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" since the pilot episode. He recurred on HBO's "True Detective, Season Two" and has had over 50 prime time guest appearances in shows like "So Help Me Todd," "Animal Kingdom," "Battle Creek," "Revenge," "Children's Hospital," "Ghost Whisperer," "Lie To Me," "Crash," "Supernatural," "CSI," "CSI: New York," "Medium", "Huff," "Shark," "ER' and "NYPD Blue." He was one of the leads in the ABC miniseries "Tom Clancy's NetForce" and Showtime's "Silver Strand." In film, he is known for his memorable performances in "Trafficked" with Ashley Judd and as a supporting lead in Universal/Focus Features' "Bad Words" for director Jason Bateman. He will next be seen in "Of Gods and Kings" for director Joe Estevez. He has appeared as a supporting lead in Hallmark's "Back When We Were Grownups" with Faye Dunaway and Peter Fonda for director Ron Underwood; as a lead in 20th Century Fox's "The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest" with Rosario Dawson; and a supporting lead in Universal's "Speaking of Sex" with Bill Murray and director John McNaughton. Nigam has also appeared in blockbuster movies Warner Bros.'s "Terminator: Salvation" and Paramount's "Cloverfield."

In theater, Nigam starred alongside fellow-NYU alumnus and friend Philip Seymour Hoffman in the highly regarded production of "The Merchant of Venice," directed by legendary stage director Peter Sellars; the play ran at The Royal Shakespeare Company in London and The Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Recently, Nigam created the role of Archit in "A Nice Indian Boy" for director Snehal Desai, which had its world premiere at East West Players (Los Angeles).

Nigam resides in Los Angeles, California.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Manoj J. Mishra, MJM Public Relations