Navin Chowdhry (born 1 January 1971)[1] is a British television actor. At age 15, he made his acting debut in the 1988 film, Madame Sousatzka with Shabana Azmi and Shirley MacLaine.[2] His next major role was as I.T. teacher Kurt McKenna in the successful comedy show Teachers from 2001–2003,[3] and is also well known for playing PC Sanjay Singh in Dalziel and Pascoe. Navin also appeared as a possible rapist in Judge John Deed. Chowdhry appeared in Waking The Dead, Series 3, Episode 3, entitled "Breaking Glass", opposite Trevor *** and Sue Johnston. In the episode, he portrays the psychologically affected "Rainman". He then starred in the Channel 4 drama series NY-LON as Raph.[4] On 30 October 2005, he appeared on stage at the Old Vic theatre in London in the one-night play Night Sky alongside Christopher Eccleston, Bruno Langley, David Warner, Saffron Burrows and David Baddiel. In 2005 he made a guest appearance in Doctor Who, then starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. In 2006, he appeared in the *** Three drama series Sinchronicity, playing Mani. In 2009, he appeared in two episodes of the Channel 4 series Free Agents and featured in Skellig. In 2010, he starred in the *** television pilot Reunited, playing Danny.[5] Chowdhry has also produced projects such as the award-winning short film "This ******* Business" and a short play entitled Mashed.[2]