He made his film debut later that same year, in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, as the Italian Assassin.
He made his professional screen acting debut in a 1976 episode of The New Avengers, titled 'Target!' as a character named Klokoe. In April 1970, Roy opened on the UK stage in Ray Cooney's Miracle Worker at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea. He later enrolled in The Slim Wood School of Comedy and got his start in the entertainment arena in England in 1970 as a stand-up comic in local cabaret clubs. He studied accounting in London before dropping out at 18.
Roy was born on 1 December 1957 in Nairobi to Indian parents in a Sikh family. At 132 centimetres (4 ft 4 in) tall, he has often been cast as diminutive characters, such as Teeny Weeny in The NeverEnding Story and the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Keenser in Star Trek, and subsequent films (' Kelvin Timeline'), and in television series such as The X-Files, Doctor Who, and Eastbound & Down.
Gurdeep Roy (born Mohinder Purba 1 December 1957), known professionally as Deep Roy, is a Kenyan-British actor, puppeteer, and stuntman.
