Mistry was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England to an Indian Hindu father and an Irish Roman Catholic mother. He went to St James' Catholic High in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport from 1985-1988 before his family relocated to Cardiff where he attended Radyr Comprehensive School. He then trained at the Birmingham School of Acting.
Career
Mistry first gained exposure playing a gay doctor, Fred Fonseca, on the British soap opera EastEnders. He also played a gay man in Touch of Pink, a romantic comedy about a Canadian Ismaili Muslim man and his troubled relationships with his lover and his mother.
His debut film was East in East where he is half British half Pakistani. He then starred in his first American film, The Guru, where he played Ramu Gupta, an Indian dance teacher who moves to America to be a star. Mistry next starred in the British comedy The Truth About Love.
In 2007, he started filming for the new E4 teen drama, Nearly Famous. The show subsequently began airing in November 2007. He also starred in the 2007 Canadian film Partition, a historical drama set during the partition of India, directed by Vic Sarin and also starring Kristin Kreuk and Neve Campbell. In 2009 Mistry starred in And The Beat Goes On, a feature length documentary which sees Mistry journeying to Ibiza to discover the true spirit of the Island. Directed by Steve Jaggi and featuring numerous famous DJs including David Guetta, Pete Tong and Paul Oakenfold. The film had been a pet project of Mistry's for nearly five years, but only took off when director Steve Jaggi was attached. Mistry stars also 2010 in the Thriller "Basement" on the side from Danny Dyer and Emily Beecham under the direction from Asham Kamboj.
Personal life
Mistry has been with his wife, Meg Leonard, since 1993 and they married in 2001. He, his wife and their daughter, Elin Leonard Mistry (born May 13, 2001), reside in the suburb of Edgbaston in the city of Birmingham.[
