Utkarsh Ambudkar

Utkarsh Ambudkar (born December 8, 1983) is an American actor. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is a former VJ for MTV Desi. He is known for his film roles including Pitch Perfect (2012), Game Over, Man! (2018), Blindspotting (2018), Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019), The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020), Free Guy (2021), Tick, Tick… Boom! (2021), and World’s Best (2023). His television roles include The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever, Ghosts, and The Dropout (2022). He made his Broadway debut in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s improvisational hip-hop show Freestyle Love Supreme in 2019.

He can be seen on the New Showtime series White Famous featuring fellow Stella alum Jacob Ming-Trent and starring Jay Pharoah. Utkarsh also originated the role of Aaron Burr in the developmental readings of Hamilton.

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