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Ravi Vasant Patel (born December 18, 1978) is an American actor. He and his sister wrote and directed an autobiographical documentary, Meet the Patels.[1]

Ravi Patel
Patel at the Past Life panel at the San Diego Comic-Con 2009
Born	Ravi Vasant Patel (1978-12-18) December 18, 1978 (age 43) Freeport, Illinois U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2006–present
Spouse	Mahaley Patel ​ (m. 2015)​
Children	1

Early life and education

Patel was born in Freeport, Illinois to Indian American parents, the son of financial consultant father Vasant Patel and real estate agent mother Champa Patel. He grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 with double majors in Economics and International Studies. His sister, Geeta Patel, is a writer and director.[2] An investment banker after college, Patel co-founded poker magazine All In while living in LA.

Career

Television and film

An emcee job with improvised stand-up in between acts, led to auditions, Patel's first agent, and two dozen commercials in a year. He has been in over 70 national commercials, films and TV shows, most notably Transformers, Scrubs, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Comedians, and Hawaii Five-O.

In 2008-09, Patel appeared as George Patil in six episodes on The CW's Easy Money. In 2010, he starred in Past Life on Fox.[3]

Patel co-directed and starred in Meet the Patels, a documentary that he made with his sister, Geeta Patel which won the audience award at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival.[4] The film portrays Patel's autobiographical[5] journey of trying to find an Indian wife.[6][7][8] The duo have a deal with Fox Searchlight Pictures to write and direct a narrative remake of the film.[9][10]

Patel worked in multiple episodes of the Aziz Ansari series Master of None.[10] From 2015 to 2016, Patel appeared on the John Stamos TV series Grandfathered.[7]

In 2020, Patel also created the CNN-produced docuseries Pursuit of Happiness which aired on HBO Max.[11] Patel has also worked in Indian Cinema in the show Bhaag Beanie Bhaag.

Other

Patel is the co-founder of This Bar Saves Lives,[12] which donates a meal packet for every granola bar they sell. He is an active investor in start-ups in health and wellness.[13]

Personal life

Patel is married to actress Mahaley Patel with whom he has a daughter named Amelie.[14]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Boys & Girls Guide To Getting Down	Rajiv
2007	Transformers	Telephone Operator
2008	Hotel California	Sam
2009	Powder Blue	Sanjay
2010	The Last Hurrah	Ara
2011	Five	Dr. Desai
2014	Meet the Patels	Himself
2015	Puerto Ricans in Paris	Hassan
2016	Get a Job	Wick
2017	Band Aid	Bobby
2018	The Black String	Dr. May
2019	Long Shot	Tom
	Come As You Are	Mo
	Boy Genius	Mr. Hume	Film also released as Emmett
2020	Butter	Dr. Bean
	Wonder Woman 1984	Babajide
2022	The Valet	Kapoor
	The Time Capsule	Roger
2023	Harold and the Purple Crayon		Post-production[15]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Lawyer
2007	Scrubs	Dr. Patel	2 episodes
2008-2009	Easy Money	George Patil
2009	Static	Various roles	6 episodes
2010	Past Life	Dr. Rishi Karna	Regular
	Look	Vinnay
2011	Outsourced	Kamran	Episode: "Todd's Holi War"
	Svetlana	Vivek	2 episodes
	Game for gamers	Ravi	2011-
2012	Bones	Poorab Sangani	1 episode
	Perception	Dr. Harvey Kapoor	1 episode
	The New Normal	Amir	4 episodes
2013-2014	Super Fun Night	Alexander Rosenhoff	4 episodes
2014	The Michael J. Fox Show	Ranesh	1 episode
	Trophy Wife	Dr. Scharma	1 episode
	Hawaii Five-O	Dr. Sanjeet Dhawan	1 episode
2015	Childrens Hospital	Dr. Sunnit Bharta	1 episode
	The Conmedians	Casey	1 episode
	Another Period	Mohandas Gandhi	1 episode
	Master of None	Ravi Patel	2 episodes 2015/17
2015-2016	Grandfathered	Ravi Gupta	22 episodes 2015/16
2016	Grey's Anatomy	Timir Dahr	Episodes: "Both Sides Now" & "Roar"
2016-17	Wrecked	Tank Top	6 episodes 2016/17
2017	Superstore	Rex Joshi	Episode: "Rebranding"
	The Great Indoors	Lalit Pajala	Episode: "Mason Blows Up"
	Santa Clarita Diet	Ryan	1 episode
	American Housewife	Grant	5 episodes 2017/19
2018	Living Biblically	Doug	3 episodes
	Door No. 1	Shane	1 episode
	The Cool Kids	Dr. Chad	Episode: "Sid Comes Out"
2019	Fam	Joe	1 episode
2020	Ravi Patel's Pursuit of Happiness	Himself
	Bhaag Beanie Bhaag	Ravi	6 episodes
TBA	Three Women	Dr. Henry	Upcoming series
TBA	Justified: City Primeval	Rick Newley	Upcoming series

References

External links

• Ravi Patel at IMDb
• Ravi Patel interview on the Tavis Smiley Show

На других языках

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[de] Ravi Patel

Ravi Vasant Patel (* 18. Dezember 1978 in Freeport, Illinois) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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- [en] Ravi Patel (actor)

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