Manish Dayal

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Manish Dayal
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Born
Manish Sudhir Patel

(1983-06-17) June 17, 1983 (age 41) [1] [2]
OccupationActor
Years active2005–present
Children2 [3]

Manish Dayal (born Manish Sudhir Patel; June 17, 1983) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Raj Kher in The CW hit teen series 90210 as well as in the films The Hundred Foot Journey (2014) and Viceroy's House (2017). From 2018 to 2023, he was featured as a main cast member of the Amy Holden Jones-created Fox medical drama series The Resident .

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Early and personal life

Dayal was born to an Indian Gujarati family in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His parents, Hema and Sudhir Patel, are from Gujarat. He has three sisters , including Neisha Patel, who is a vascular neurology fellow at Columbia University Medical Center. He uses his grandfather's first name, Dayal, as his stage surname. [4] He attended Marshall Elementary School and later went to Heathwood Hall in Columbia, South Carolina. He subsequently obtained a degree in International Business from George Washington University. After he graduated in 2005, he moved to New York to pursue his acting career, and five years later he moved to Los Angeles. [5] [6]

Career

Dayal started his career appearing in national commercials for McDonald's, Windows, Nintendo, and Domino's Pizza. In 2008, he played the lead in The New Group's twice-extended off-Broadway show Rafta, Rafta . He also voiced Mohammed, a taxi driver in Rockstar Games's critically acclaimed video game Grand Theft Auto IV. He played a small role in The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Paula van der Oest's Domino Effect. After guest-starring on CSI: Las Vegas on CBS, Dayal went on to play Hal, a code-breaking computer analyst, on the AMC series Rubicon. Dayal also starred in the romantic comedy Walkaway, which explores love and culture set in New York. In 2010 and 2011, he played Ravi, the smug A-team leader on Outsourced , a comedy series from NBC. He also played Raj Kher, an alternative college student recovering from cancer, in the third and fourth seasons of The CW's 90210.

He starred as Hassan Kadam in The Hundred Foot Journey (2014). [7] From 2018 to 2023, he has starred in the Fox TV series The Resident .

Filmography

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Dayal in 2014

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2006Break the Addiction: An Inconvenient TruthKibhnar
2007 On the Other Side Jack [8]
2008Cain's MarkGypsy
2009Karma CallingTrainee
2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice NYU clerk
2010 Walkaway Vinay
2011The CallTaruk
2011The Domino EffectSid
2011The Whirling DervishZahir
2012 White Frog Ajit
2012 Breaking the Girls Tim
2014 The Hundred-Foot Journey Hassan Kadam
2014I'm Obsessed with You: But You've Got to Leave Me AloneCyrus Kapoor
2017 Viceroy's House Jeet Kumar
2020 Holidate Faarooq
2022 Rise Kevin

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2010 Rubicon Hal3 episodes
Outsourced RaviEpisode: "Jolly Vindaloo Day"
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Rishi ParayanEpisode: "Internal Combustion"
2011 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Samir DossEpisode: "To the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap"
2011–2012 90210 Raj Kher 14 episodes
2012 Switched at Birth Scuba4 episodes
The Good Wife DineshEpisode: "Live from Damascus"
2014 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Farid SalimEpisode: "Criminal Stories"
2016 Halt and Catch Fire Ryan Ray8 episodes
2016–2017 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Vijay Nadeer 3 episodes
2018–2023 The Resident Dr. Devon PraveshMain cast; Director: 2 episodes
2019–2021 Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Shashi Dhar (voice)Main role (season 1 and 5), Netflix series
2024 The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Ash Patel4 episodes

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2008 Grand Theft Auto IV Mohammed/Hot dog Vendor
2009 Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Hot dog VendorUncredited
2011 Star Wars: The Old Republic Additional voices
2021Fast & Furious Spy Racers: Rise of SH1FT3RShashi Dhar [9]

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