Innate inside Evanston, Illinois, the son of Indian immigrants to the U.S., Naidu was born and raised in Chicago. One of many acting graduates from either Martin Luther King Junior Laboratory School. As an actor, he trained by owning a American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.

In screen, Naidu has appeared in the cult film Office Space, when well as K-Pax, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and American Chai. He co-starred in the sitcom LateLine and had guest starring roles on the television dramas The Sopranos and The West Wing. Inside 1996, Naidu received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his role in the independent film SubUrbia. He has likewise been exposed inside the dull artistic theatre, music & dance projects in the U.S., Britain, & Indithe, and performs by having a musical organization known as Bhom Shankar around New York City.