Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Local Hero

As if Eva Longoria and Ricardo Chavira aren't enough, it looks like San Antonio has another actor on a big hit show that it can lay claim to. And this show happens to be Heroes, that addictive super hero drama I post about here on occasion:
Did you know that Sendhil Ramamurthy, who plays Mohinder — the genetics professor in India who inherited a list of people who have extraordinary powers — grew up in San Antonio?

According to his mom, Rajam, a neonatologist at UT Health Science Center, her son was born in Chicago, but the family moved to the Alamo City when he was very young.

Ramamurthy graduated from Keystone School here, but left the city to attend Tufts University. He didn't major in drama, but acted in several plays and fell in love with acting.

His mom was initially surprised by her son's choice of careers as he comes from a family of doctors. However, she and her husband — an anesthesiologist at the health science center — now are bursting with pride over their son's talent and success.

The only real disappointment here is that Ramamurthy's character, Mohinder, hasn't really been given anything significant to do on the show, other than wander into the narrative and impart bits of information that dispells the ignorance of other characters to a small degree. I'd thought early on that Mohinder would be the focal character of the show, since he's apparently "normal" but that was before Hiro and Peter Petrelli started stealing the limelight. Maybe Mohinder will step up in the second half of the season...

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