Deep Roy

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Deep Roy (also Gordeep Roy ; * December 1, 1957 in Nairobi , Kenya , as Mohinder Purba ) is a short British actor , stuntman , screenwriter and puppeteer .

Live and act

Roy is the son of Indian parents. One of his ancestors was the Indian Maharajah Vinepal. He is 1.32 meters tall. After his father moved to Great Britain with the family , Deep Roy began working in cabarets as a stand-up comedian . Roy got his first TV role in 1976 in an episode of the crime series Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone ( The New Avengers ) and in the same year he also appeared in his first movie, in Blake Edwards ' Inspector Clouseau, the "best" man at Interpol ( The Pink Panther Strikes Again ), in which he played a short agent who was supposed to bring Inspector Clouseau “around the corner” at the Munich Oktoberfest . In 1977, he was in several episodes of the British science fiction series Doctor Who seen and played in 1985 the "Tin Man" in the Disney - Fantasy Film Oz - A fantastic world ( Return to Oz ).

Because of his small body size, Roy played a number of unusual characters in film and television and, as a stuntman , was repeatedly used as a “double” for child actors and “other things”. Cinema-goers know him as "tiny" with his racing snail in Wolfgang Petersen's film adaptation of The Neverending Story (1984) and as androids in Redwing - Escape from the Black Droids (1984). He appeared twice in monkey costumes, once with " Tarzan " Christopher Lambert in Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ( Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes , 1984) and once in the remake of Planet of the Apes (2001), where he acted two characters - a young monkey and the "daughter" of an ape senator.

In the film The Dark Crystal ( The Dark Crystal , 1982) slipped Roy as an additional puppeteer in one of the fantasy characters of Jim Henson , and Return of the Jedi ( Return of the Jedi , 1983) he was in the costume of Droopy McCool in the band at the court of the villain "Jabba the Hutt". In 2000, Deep Roy stood alongside Jim Carrey in the movie The Grinch ( How the Grinch Stole Christmas ) before the camera.

In the eighth season of the television series The X-Files - The X Files ( The X-Files ), episode here and not here ( Badlaa , airs on Jan. 21, 2001), he played an Indian beggar.

After the turn of the century, Deep Roy realized a number of film projects with the US director Tim Burton . In addition to Planet of the Apes , Burton used it in Big Fish (2003), and Deep Roy was one of the speakers in the animated film Corpse Bride ( Corpse Bride , 2005). He played his "largest" role in Burton's remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , 2005). With the help of a computer, he embodied all employees in the factory, the so-called “ Oompa Loompas ”. For the role, Roy had to complete extensive training and learn to sing, dance and play various instruments.

In 2009, Roy starred in Transformers: Revenge . In the same year he played the alien character Keenser for the first time in Star Trek , whose role he also embodied in the sequels Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond .

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SURNAME Roy, deep
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Purba, Mohinder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Nairobi , Kenya