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- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Born in India and raised in Canada, he is an award-winning screenwriter, short film director and actor with several series regular and recurring character credits. He broke into television as a writer, and is best known as one of the original writers of the classic Muppet TV show Fraggle Rock. He starred in a CBC TV movie he wrote, Best of Both Worlds, which launched his acting career. He was the first visible minority to attend the prestigious Canadian Film Centre as a writer-director, where he was trained by renowned directors Norman Jewison and Daniel Petrie, Sr. as well as famed editor Lou Lombardo and Oscar-winning composer James Horner among many others. His award-winning short films have screened at numerous festivals worldwide. Also a Dora award-nominated stage actor and produced playwright. Member of the Writers Guild of Canada, ACTRA and Canadian Actors Equity as well as a voting member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. He has taught screenwriting and acting at the college level and given seminars across Canada.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Sugith Varughese
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Uncredited, he has been part of the "loop group" for numerous TV series and films since 1992 beginning with Forever Knight, Robocop the Series, and Relic Hunter up to and including season 4 of The Expanse, which he has looped since the pilot. Looping provides background voices to scenes and is done in post-production. It requires being able to improvise in context on cue.
- In February 2020, he began recurring as two different characters on two Canadian prime time TV series, Kim's Convenience (comedy) and Transplant (drama), on two different networks, CBC and CTV.
- In 2018, only a few weeks after appearing in an episode of Northern Rescue starring William Baldwin, he worked with Daniel Baldwin in the feature film, Making A Deal With the Devil.
- Recurs in season one of The Girlfriend Experience in a role originally written as a white male named Gus. After he was cast, the role was renamed Tariq Barr.
- After completing 2 years as a pre-med/drama double major at the University of Saskatchewan, transferred to the Univrtsity of Minnesota and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Theatre Arts.
- Directing is fun and acting is easy. Writing is hard because you start with nothing.
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