Jim Sarbh

Jim Sarbh (born 27 August 1987) is an Indian theatre actor/director and film actor based in Bombay. His first commercially released film was Neerja, directed by Ram Madhvani, starring Sonam Kapoor in the lead. For his contribution to Indian theatre, he was selected for the Forbes India 30 under 30 list in early 2015.

Early life

Sarbh was born in Mumbai, to a Parsi family. His mother was a physiotherapist, and his father was a master mariner, and later the Regional Director of P&O Ports South and Middle East Asia. He moved to Australia with his family when he was 3 years old and moved back to Mumbai when he was 8. He did most of his schooling in the American school of Bombay. For his undergraduate degree, he studied Psychology at the Emory University in Atlanta.

Career

Post university, Sarbh worked at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta for a year as a literary intern, and performed around Atlanta in The Show!, The Breakup, Tennis in Nablus, and Ice Glen (2009), for which he won a Major Supporting Role Metropolitan Atlanta Theatre Award. After moving back to Bombay in 2012, he has performed in various plays, including, Ok Tata Bye Bye, Limbo, Death of a Salesman, Gates to India Song, Cock, Noises Off, The Glass Menagerie, Eat! and Bull.

In 2015, Sarbh acted in three feature films, Neerja by Ram Madhvani, Yashodhara by Jyoti Patil, 3 ½ Takes by Daria Ghai, and the short films Mama’s Boys by Akshat Verma, and Like Summer Like Rain by Gouri Dutt. He also performed on stage in Vickram Kapadia’s The Merchant of Venice, Kalki Koechlin’s The Living Room, and Rajat Kapoor’s What is Done, is Done. Ajeeb Ashiq by Natasha Mendonca was Sarbh's feature film debut which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2 February 2016.