"The brain controls every human action; voluntary or involuntary. Every breath, every heartbeat, every emotion. If the soul exists, scientifically speaking... it exists in the brain."

First Appearance: #1.2 "Don't Look Back" (voice); #1.8 "Seven Minutes to Midnight" (actual first appearance)

Location: Madras, India; Brooklyn, NY

Profession: Professor; Genetics researcher; Taxi cab driver.

Known Relatives/Associates: Mohinder Suresh (son); Mrs. Suresh (wife); Shanti Suresh (daughter, deceased); Sylar (Patient Zero); Eden McCain (Next-door neighbor, spy)

Powers: Chandra does not appear to have powers of any kind.

Character Biography: Chandra Suresh was a genetics professor and researcher at the University of Madras in Madras, India. He was also a published author with the book titled Activating Evolution. This book, along with his obsessive, seemingly crazy theories, led to him being stripped of his tenure and he was expelled from the university.

Chandra's son, Mohinder Suresh, went on to take his place as Professor at the university, while Chandra continued to obsess over his genetics research, and the search for his "Patient Zero." This led Chandra to New York City, and to the man known at the time as "Gabriel Gray."

After tracking down Gray, Chandra persuaded him to undergo various tests in an attempt to discover what superpower Gray's genes might contain. This continued to no avail, as Gray soon found out his real power was to take on the powers of others by murdering them. Suresh was left unaware of this fact when Gray came to him with his newfound power. It also seems that Gray was able to sense the powers of others when he mistakenly murdered Chandra, but was actually sensing the power of Chandra's next-door neighbor, Eden McCain.

The untimely death of Chandra Suresh was likely the catalyst for many of the events that have occurred: Gray, a changed man -- with the new name to prove it -- was able to use Suresh's research to track down his victims and steal their powers; Mohinder Suresh arrived in New York to try and solve the mystery behind his father's death, meeting Peter Petrelli and Eden along the way.

Featured Episodes: #1.2 "Don't Look Back" (Voice); #1.8 "Seven Minutes to Midnight"; #1.9 "Homecoming"; #1.10 "Six Months Ago"

Actor Biography: Erick (born Eruch) Avari is a British-Indian actor. He was born April 13, 1952 and raised in Darjeeling, India.

His most notable roles include such films as The Mummy, Stargate, Independence Day, and the comedy Mr. Deeds. Avari was also one of the few to reprise his role from Stargate for the TV-spinoff Stargate SG-1.

There was much confusion over his continuing role in Heroes, when photos of his character Chandra Suresh from the book Activating Evolution were inadvertently replaced with another actor in an episode recap. It later became apparent that this was due to an editing mistake.

Avari is slated for a number of roles in 2007, including the Snakes on a Plane-esque horror/comedy Plane Dead.

Profile Contributors: Jonathan Woollard

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