Rish Shah

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Rish Shah
Born
Rishabh Shah

(1997-12-17) 17 December 1997 (age 26)
Enfield, London, England
Alma mater King's College London
OccupationActor
Years active2017–present

Rishabh "Rish" Shah (born 17 December 1997) is an English actor. He had his breakout role as Kamran in the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel (2022). He has also appeared in the short film The Long Goodbye (2020), the feature films The Sweet East (2023) and Do Revenge (2022), and the Netflix thriller series Obsession (2023).

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Early life

Rish Shah was born and raised in Enfield, North London. His parents are from Mumbai and Vadodara. [1] He attended Grange Park Primary School and then Haberdashers' Boys' School. [2] [3] He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Linguistics from King's College London. [4]

Career

In 2017, Shah appeared in the Merdel Theatre Company production of The Plains of Delight at Clapham Fringe Festival and the Fullscreen web series PrankMe by Hazel Hayes. In 2019, he made his television debut with guest appearances in Russell T Davies' Years and Years and the medical soap opera Doctors , both on BBC One. He also had stage roles in You're Dead, Mate at the Nutshell in Winchester and Torch Song Trilogy at the Turbine Theatre in London. [5]

Shah appeared in Riz Ahmed's 2020 Oscar winning short film The Long Goodbye as Ahmed's younger brother. Shah took over the role of Kirin Kotecha in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from Adam Fielding for the character's return in 2020. [6] He was named a 2021 Brit to Watch by Variety . [4]

Shah made his feature film debut in 2021 as Ravi in the Netflix film To All the Boys: Always and Forever and Varun Dutta in the romantic comedy film India Sweets and Spices opposite Sophia Ali. [7]

The following year he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe and made his debut as superpowered teen Kamran in the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel . He went on to play Russ in the Netflix comedy film Do Revenge . [8] [9] He starred in the Netflix limited thriller series Obsession and will appear in the Amazon film Sitting in Bars with Cake .

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2020 The Long Goodbye KarimShort film
2021 To All the Boys: Always and Forever Ravi
India Sweets and Spices Varun Dutta
2022 Do Revenge Russ
2023 The Sweet East Mohammad
Sitting in Bars with Cake Owen

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2019 Years and Years Ahmed1 episode
Doctors Rajdeep MishraEpisode: "Failing to Stop"
2020 Casualty Virat Dewala1 episode
Emmerdale Kirin Kotecha5 episodes
2022 Ms. Marvel Kamran5 episodes (main cast)
Marvel Studios: Assembled HimselfDocumentary; episode: "Assembled: The Making of Ms Marvel"
2023 Obsession Jay Farrow4 episodes

Web

YearTitleRoleNotes
2017PrankMeAsif4 episodes

Stage

YearTitleRoleNotes
2017The Plains of DelightJerryClapham Fringe Festival
2019You're Dead, MateThe ManThe Nutshell, Winchester
Torch Song Trilogy Alan Turbine Theatre, London

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