Deep Roy

Not to be confused with Kiran Shah.

Deep Roy
Born	Mohinder Purba (1957-12-01) 1 December 1957 Nairobi, Kenya
Occupation(s)	Actor, stuntman, puppeteer
Years active	1976–present

Gurdeep Roy (born 1 December 1957), sometimes credited as Roy Deep, Gordeep Roy, or just Deep Roy, is a Kenyan-born English actor, stuntman and puppeteer of Indian descent.

Early life

Born Mohinder Purba in Nairobi, Kenya to Indian parents, Roy is 4 ft 4 in (132 centimetres) tall.

Career

Because of his short stature, he has played a variety of unusual characters in his acting career. Roy made his professional screen acting debut in a 1976 episode of The New Avengers entitled "Target!" as character named Klokoe. He would later make his film debut that same year, in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, as the Italian Assassin. Another notable early role was as Mr. Sin, the "pig-brained Peking Homonculus", a villain with a distinct appetite for homicide, in the acclaimed Doctor Who story The Talons of Weng-Chiang. In 1979, Roy also played a genetically engineered life form 'Decima' in the 1st season Blake's 7 episode "The Web" as well as the diminutive chess genius, 'The Klute', in the 2nd season Blake's 7 episode "Gambit".

He has played apes in two movies: Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and again in the 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes (Two roles: one as a young gorilla boy and as Thade's niece). His most notable role is playing all the Oompa-Loompas (165 of them) in Tim Burton's 2005 adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Deep had extensive training for the role in dance, yoga, and even some minor instrument playing. He is noted for his frequent collaborations with Tim Burton, appearing in Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride where he supplied General Bonesapart's voice.

He has done many other roles in movies and on television, including The X-Files, Flash Gordon, Return to Oz (as the Tin Woodsman), Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal as a puppeteer extra, The NeverEnding Story as Teeny Weeny, the rider of the "racing snail", Alien from L.A., Howling VI: The Freaks as Mr Toones and Return of the Jedi as Droopy McCool and in The Haunted Mansion.

More recently, he appeared in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as an Egyptian guard and in the 2009 film Star Trek as "Keenser", Montgomery Scott's assistant on the ice planet Delta Vega. Deep played a green man while doing a commercial shoot for Ozocleanse. In one of his more prominent speaking roles, Roy played Aaron, a violent Mumbai-born Mexican criminal, in second season of the HBO comedy, Eastbound & Down. Most recently Deep starred as Sandeep Majumdar in the 2012 award winning short film "The Ballad of Sandeep".

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1976	The Pink Panther Strikes Again	Italian Assassin
1979	Licensed to Love and Kill	Dwarf
	Die Brut des Bösen	Van Bullock
1980	Flash Gordon	Fellini
1982	The Sender
	The Dark Crystal	Additional performer
1983	Mini Gulliver	Mini Gull
1983	Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi	Droopy McCool	Uncredited role
1984	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Primate Sequences
	The NeverEnding Story	Teeny Weeny	Voice dubbed by Frank Lenart
1985	Return to Oz	Tin Man
	Starship	Grid' not 'Kid
1986	Weekend Warriors	Little Girl	Uncredited role
1987	Going Bananas	Bonzo
1988	Alien from L.A.	Mambino
1989	Rising Storm	Joker Arroyo
	Lethal Woman	Grizabella
1990	Disturbed	Marty
1991	Howling VI: The Freaks	Toones	Direct-to-video release
1992	The Resurrected	Main Monster
1993	Freaked	George Ramirez #3
1994	Dickwad	Little Telephone Bully
1995	Under the Hula Moon	Bus Driver
1998	Mafia!	Small Hitman	Uncredited role
2000	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Post Office Clerk
2001	Planet of the Apes	Gorilla Kid/Thade's Niece
2003	The Haunted Mansion	Hitchhiking Ghost
	Big Fish	Mr. Soggybottom
2004	Surviving Eden	Indian Mo
2005	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Oompa-Loompa	Played all of the Oompa-Loompas
	Corpse Bride	General Bonesapart	Voice role
2009	Star Trek	Keenser
	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Egyptian Guard
2012	Zambezia	Mushana	Voice only
2013	Star Trek Into Darkness	Keenser
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	The New Avengers	Klokoe	Episode: "Target!"
1978	Benji's Very Own Christmas Story	Key Elf	Uncredited role TV movie
1977–1986	Doctor Who	Mr. Sin Possican Delegate	7 episodes
1978–1980	Blake's 7	Decima The Klute Moloch Link	4 episodes
1989	Desperado: The Outlaw Wars		Uncredited role
2001	The X-Files	Beggar Man	Season 8, Episode 10: Badlaa
2010	Eastbound & Down	Aaron

External links

• The Ballad of Sandeep" Official Website for the Short Film
• Deep Roy at IMDb
• Deep Roy at AllMovie
• Official website
• Deep Roy at Memory Alpha