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British actor (born )

Nitin Chandra Ganatra (born 30 June ^[1]) is a British actor. He is known for portraying Masood Ahmed in the BBCsoap opera, EastEnders (–), for which he won a British Soap Award.

Early life

Ganatra was born on 30 June in Kenya. Both sides of his family have origins in Gujarat, India, which was explored on-screen in the series of Who Do You Think You Are?^[2] His great-grandfather arrived in Kenya in the late s, as one of 32, contracted labourers to build the Uganda Railway.^[3] One of under 10, to stay in the country after the railway's completion, his grandfather and his father later joined the family's general trading business.^[3]

After Kenya gained independence from the United Kingdom and forced the native Indian population to choose between Kenya and their British passports in , Ganatra, aged 3, moved with his family to Coventry, where the family still owned a corner shop.^[3][