Rohan Chand

Rohan Chand is an American actor who began his career as a child after being discovered by a casting director while playing baseball. He made his film debut as Adam Sandler's adopted son in Jack and Jill (2011). He then appeared in the 2011 Homeland episode Crossfire as Issa Nazir, the young son of a terrorist. In Lone Survivor (2013) he played the son of an Afghan who aids a Navy SEAL, speaking Hindi and Urdu. That same year he took a main role in Bad Words (2013), playing a spelling bee entrant who befriends Jason Bateman's character; critics widely praised his performance, and Variety predicted more big screen opportunities. He played the young version of the main character in The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), a Lasse Hallström film starring Helen Mirren. He later starred as Mowgli in Andy Serkis's Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018).