Renu Setna

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Renu Setna is a British actor. His roles on television include the shopkeeper Mr. Kittel in In Sickness and in Health.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00tkjz3/episodes/guide|date=May 2003|title=BBC One - In Sickness and in Health - Episode guide|work=BBC|via=bbc.co.uk}} and Mr. Ram in the Only Fools and Horses episode Cash and Curry.

Career

Setna began his acting career after winning a scholarship to RADA in 1960. He has played roles in productions from Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Calcutta, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Before this he was employed building houses as a manual labourer in the 1950s.

Setna has appeared in some of Britain's most successful television series: Z-Cars, Doomwatch, I, Claudius, Cloud Burst, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Only Fools and Horses, Doctor Who, Crossroads, The Bill, Open All Hours, Are You Being Served?, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, In Sickness and in Health, Minder, Holby City, Silent Witness and Collision.{{cite web |url=https://digiguide.tv/celebrity/Renu+Setna/17218/|date=2018|title=TV roles played by Renu Setna|author=Digitv Guide |work=digiguide|via=digiguide.tv}}{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/hustle/guest_stars.shtml|date=2018|title=BBC Hustle role played by Renu Setna|author=BBC Drama |work=BBC|via=bbc.co.uk}}

Renu Setna's stage work includes Khahil Gibran at the Commonwealth Theatre in London,{{cite web |url=http://www.virtualpune.com/html/channel/art/prophet/profit.shtml|date=1985|title=Khahil Gibran |author=Khahil Gibran |work=Renu Setna|via=virtualpune.com}} Shakespeare roles ,{{cite web |url=https://bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/people/renu-setna|date=2018|title=Renu Setna's Shakespeare roles |author=Warwick University |work=bbashakespaere|via=warwick.ac.uk}} Gandhi directed by Peter Stevenson with John Castle in the title role at the Tricycle Theatre,{{cite web |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/f840621e-1ea9-3ae8-8245-80b219636f05|accessdate=2 July 2018|title=Renu Setna in Gandhi at the Tricycle Theatre |author=Archives Hub |work=Tricycle Theatre|via=jisc.ac.uk}} and the role of the Chaplain in Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht also directed by Peter Stevenson{{cite web |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/ha/mother-courage-and-her-children/production/wb2

|title=Mother Courage and Her Children cast and crew retrieved from Theatricalia.com|author=theatricalia |work=Cast and crew of Mother Courage Internationalist Theatre|via=Theatricalia.com}} for Internationalist Theatre{{cite web |url=https://archiv.adk.de/objekt/2583471|date=2018|title=Mother Courage and Her Children archiv|author=Graham |work=Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv Aufführungsmaterial|via=archiv.adk.de}} for which he gained good notices in The Stage.{{cite web|url= https://archive.org/details/PeterStevensonSignificantPieceOfEpicTheatreWithMultinationalCast |title=Art of Keeping alive |author=Peter Hepple|date=13 May 1982|work=The Stage|via=Internet Archive}}{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=art%20of%20keeping%20alive%20%20the%20stage%20may%20%201982&retrievecountrycounts=false|title=Screenshot of British Newspaper Archive The Stage review of Mother Courage Art of Keeping alive no 8|author=Peter Hepple|date=13 May 1982|work=The Stage|via=britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk}}{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0785992/publicity?ref_=nm_pdt_pub_sm|title=Renu Setna IMDB publicity|author=IMDB|date=13 May 1982|work=IMDB|via=imdb.com}}

On 19 May 2003, Setna was quoted in BBC News alongside Albert Moses saying that British programmes should be hiring British Asian actors rather than actors from India.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3040829.stm|date=May 2003|title=Indian actor hits back in soap row|work=BBC News}}

Roles

Setna is known for playing Asian characters in British television and films.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L5jLCgAAQBAJ&pg=PR10|title=Paving the Empire Road: BBC television and black Britons|first=Darrell|last=Newton|date=19 July 2013|publisher=Manchester University Press|accessdate=25 December 2019|via=Google Books|isbn=9781847794604}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t2CCDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA132 |title=Cinema and Community|author= D. McKiernan| page =132 |isbn=9780230582804|date=21 May 2008|publisher=Springer }}{{cite news |last1=Midgley |first1=Dominic |title=Why are BBC bosses so nervous about making It Ain't Half Hot Mum available again |url=https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/617487/BBC-bosses-It-Aint-Half-Hot-Mum |access-date=11 February 2021 |work=Daily Express |date=6 November 2015 |language=en}}

He lives in the Wimbledon area of London.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}