From Telugu film debut to Globe list

what did the 67th Annual Golden Globes,held in California on Sunday,and the Telugu film industry have in common? The answer is Thomas Jane, a nominee for the Best Performance by an Actor in a television series (Comedy) for Hung , a HBO series, who made his debut in 1987 not in a Hollywood film but a Telugu film the romantic-comedy Padamati Sandhya Ragam. The actor has also been a part of films like the Boogie Nights (1997), The Thin Red Line (1998), Thursday (1998), Magnolia (1999), Deep Blue Sea (1999), The Mist (2007), among others.

"I did an Indian film when I was 17 years old, and that's how I got into acting. I was living in Maryland,and some Indians came to Washington DC looking for a blonde kid to appear in an Indian film. It was like a Romeo and Juliet love story between a white American and an Indian girl. They wanted me to stay in India and I did another film over there, they gave me an apartment, a car and I was an Indian movie star at 17. But then I decided to return to America, studied acting," says Thomas Jane on his IMDB page.

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