Renu Setna | |
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 Mother Courage (1982) with Renyu Setna as the Chaplin | |
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Renu Setna is a British actor. His roles on television include the shopkeeper Mr. Kittel in In Sickness and in Health . [1] and Mr. Ram in the Only Fools and Horses episode Cash and Curry .
Setna began his acting career after winning a scholarship to RADA in 1960. He has played roles in productions from Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Calcutta, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Before this he was employed building houses as a manual labourer in the 1950s.
Setna has appeared in some of Britain's most successful television series: Z-Cars , Doomwatch , I, Claudius , Cloud Burst , It Ain't Half Hot Mum , Only Fools and Horses , Doctor Who , Crossroads , The Bill , Open All Hours , Are You Being Served? , Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , In Sickness and in Health , Minder , Holby City , Silent Witness and Collision . [2] [3] Renu Setna's stage work includes Khahil Gibran at the Commonwealth Theatre in London, [4] Shakespeare roles , [5] Gandhi directed by Peter Stevenson with John Castle in the title role at the Tricycle Theatre, [6] and the role of the Chaplain in Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht also directed by Peter Stevenson [7] for Internationalist Theatre [8] for which he gained good notices in The Stage. [9] [10] [11]
On 19 May 2003, Setna was quoted in BBC News alongside Albert Moses saying that British programmes should be hiring British Asian actors rather than actors from India. [12]
Setna is known for playing Asian characters in British television and films. [13] [14] [15]
He lives in the Wimbledon area of London.[ citation needed ]
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