Robert Ashby

Rashid Suhrawardy (1940 – 7 February 2019), known professionally as Robert Ashby, was a British actor. He worked on stage, television and film. Early life and career Ashby was born in London 1940 as Rashid Suhrawardy to East Pakistani Bengali politician Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, who served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and a Russian mother of Polish descent, actress Vera Alexandrovna Tiscenko Calder. He received his early education at Charterhouse School and graduated from the University of Oxford. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Described by Pakistan Today as "the quintessential theatre actor", on screen he was known for playing Jawaharlal Nehru in the film Jinnah (1998) and a Doctor Who villain, the Borad, in the serial Timelash (1985). Politics