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Samrat Chakrabarti
সম্রাট চক্রবর্তী सम्राट चक्रबर्ती
Samrat Chakrabarti; সম্রাট চক্রবর্তী सम्राट चक्रबर्ती;
	Chakrabarti in 2010
Born	22 August 1975 (age 49); London, England
Education	Brandeis University (BA); Harvard University (MFA);
Occupation(s)	Actor, musician
Years active	2003–present

Samrat Chakrabarti (born 22 August 1975) is a British-American film actor and musician of Indian descent.

Early life

Born in London to Bengali immigrant parents from Kolkata. He performed in Indian community functions in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was exposed to music, poetry and the plays of Rabindranath Tagore.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Acting

Having acted all through school, Chakrabarti's feature film debut came in 2004 in Spike Lee's She Hate Me. Early in his career, he starred opposite Molly Shannon in The Wedding Weekend and then in Manish Acharya's Loins of Punjab Presents. He also had a role in the Australian film, The Waiting City. His film, The War Within, was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award while Bombay Summer, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee won Best Film at the 2009 MIAAC Film Festival. Chakrabarti starred opposite Rebecca Hazelwood in Kissing Cousins and made an appearance in the Yash Raj-produced Bollywood film, New York. Chakrabarti played the character Rishi, a menacing gangster in Ajay Naidu's Ashes. He will be seen soon in Murder in the Dark, produced by Napoleon Dynamite's Chris Wyatt.^{[citation needed]}

Chakrabarti has also appeared in television productions. He has appeared on In Treatment (HBO) as Irrfan Khan's son, 30 Rock (NBC) opposite Alec Baldwin, Bored to Death (HBO), Blue Bloods (CBS) opposite Tom Selleck, Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC) opposite Chris Noth, Law & Order (NBC), Love Monkey (CBS), The Sopranos (HBO) opposite James Gandolfini, and All My Children. Chakrabarti was a recurring character on FX's Damages opposite Ted Danson.^{[citation needed]}

Music

Samrat Chakrabarti is also an established international musician. In 1994, he founded Brandeis University's award-winning all male a cappella group, VoiceMale, for which he continues to contribute arrangements and original compositions, including "Please Don't Go," which appears on the album Suit Up and arrangements for the national a cappella compilation Voices Only 2009. He won a U.S. CARA for Best Original Pop/Rock Song for his composition "What's It all About". He is a former member of the a cappella group Five O' Clock Shadow. He was also a part of the group The Hyannis Sound. In 1998, Chakrabarti produced an untitled album for his musical group, JYDE, and composed the song "Startving".^{[citation needed]}

Chakrabarti has also composed the theme song "Dhol Beat" for Loins of Punjab, and Sundaram Tagore's Natvar Bhavsar: Poetics of Color.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	She Hate Me	Ahmad
2005	Arya	Raj Singh	Tamil film
2005	The War Within	Pakistani Interrogator
2006	The Bong Connection	Rakesh	Bengali film
2007	Loins of Punjab Presents	Trance Sen
	Karma Calling	Rohit Rao
	Kissing Cousins	Amir
2009	New York	Yakub	Hindi film
2010	Ashes	Rishi
2010	Gangor	Ujan
2012	Midnight's Children	Wee Willie Winkie
2012	Price Check	Eddie
2013	Vishwaroopam	Deepak Chatterjee	Tamil film
2013	Vishwaroop	Deepak Chatterjee	Hindi film
2014	The Ladies of the House	Derek	English
2014	Unfreedom	Anees
2015	Beyond the Mask	Basil
2016	Wiener-Dog	Dr. Farhard Rahman
2017	Viceroy's House	Moshin
2018	The Kindergarten Teacher	Sanjay Roy
2018	Nancy	Raj
2018	Vishwaroopam 2	Deepak Chatterjee	Tamil film
2018	Vishwaroop 2	Deepak Chatterjee	Hindi film
2019	Stray Dolls	Sal
2020	I'll Meet You There	Dr. Sahil Khan
2021	Leylak	Abdul	Short film

Television roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	The Sopranos (HBO)	Dr. Onkar Singh	Episode: "Marco Polo"
	Law & Order (NBC)	Hydar Raheem	Episode: "Enemy"
	Hope and Faith (ABC)	DJ	Episode: "Jack's Back"
2006	Love Monkey (CBS)	Engineer	Episode: "Opportunity Knocks"
2007	Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC)	Tariq Amir	Episode: "World's Fair"
2008	All My Children (ABC)	Saad Pertiwi	Episode: #1.10018
2009	Damages (FX)	Manu Singh	Episodes: "They Had to Tweeze That Out of My Kidney" and "New York Sucks"
2009	Celebrity Ghost Stories (The Biography Channel)	Pharmacist	(TV Series documentary)
2010	Bored to Death (HBO)	Akhil	Episode: "Forty-Two Down!"
	In Treatment (HBO)	Arun Sanyal	Episode: "Sunil: Week One"
	30 Rock (NBC)	Ramesh	Episode: "College"
2013	The Carrie Diaries (The CW)	Doc	Episode: "I Heard a Rumor"
2013	Blue Bloods (CBS)	Parmar Hameed	Episode: "Mistaken Identity"
2014	Law & Order: SVU (NBC)	Mr. Salim	Episode: "Criminal Stories"
2015	Mr. Robot (USA Network)	Rohit "Ron" Mehta	Episode: eps1.0_hellofriend.mov
2016	NCIS: New Orleans (CBS)	Jenner Blye	Episode: "Sister City: Part 1"
2016	NCIS (CBS)	Jenner Blye	Episode: "Sister City: Part 2"
2017	Bull (CBS)	Sean Laheri	Episode: "What's Your Number?"
2017	The Problem with Apu (TruTV)	Himself	Documentary
2020	Homeland (Showtime)	Ambassador Rashad	Episode: "Designated Driver"
2020	Little Voice (Apple TV+)	Anil	5 episodes
2021	Bull (CBS)	Jai	Episode: "The Boy Who Cried Murder"

Videogames

Year	Title	Role
2005	SOCOM 3 U.S. Navy SEALs	Additional South Asia AO voices
	Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories	—
	SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo	Additional South Asia AO voices
2013	Grand Theft Auto V	The Local Population
2014	Far Cry 4	Additional voices

Samrat Chakrabarti