In his two decades in Bollywood, Irrfan Khan has established himself as a character actor par excellence, and in recent years, he has quietly become the most successful Bollywood actor to crossover to the West with appearances in the English-language films The Namesake (2006), A Mighty Heart (2007), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), and New York I Love You (2009). He won two Filmfare Awards for his performances in Haasil (2003) and Life in a…Metro (2007) and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in Slumdog Millionaire. He is set to appear in the Hollywood productions The Amazing Spider-Man and Life of Pi. It’s rumored he may appear in a film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel, Midnight’s Children, directed by Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta.