Rushi Kota

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Rushi Kota
Born (1987-04-16) April 16, 1987 (age 37)
Secunderabad, India
Education Farmingdale State College (BS)
Harvard University (MFA)
OccupationActor
Years active2010–present
Children1

Rushi Kota (born April 16, 1987) is an Indian American actor. He is known for his role as Prashant in the Netflix show Never Have I Ever, and as Dr. Vik Roy in Grey's Anatomy . [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Early life and education

Kota was born in Secunderabad, India. He was raised by his mother in Queens, New York. [3] [4] [5] Initially he wanted to go into automotive engineering, so he doubled majored in Industrial Management Technology and Business Administration at Farmingdale State College. [2] [5]

Due to the Great Recession, he decided to take a different career path. This led him to pursue acting in New York. After two years of acting, he got accepted into Harvard University's MFA program for Acting. This led to an internship in Russia at Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theater School. [2] [5]

Career

Kota has appeared in TV shows such as The Royals, General Hospital , CBS's Extant with Halle Berry, Ryan Murphy's 9-1-1, Freeform's Famous in Love , and Funny or Die's ESL: English is the Second Language. [2] [5]

He has appeared in films like The Divorce Party starring Matilda Lutz and Thomas Cocquerel, Useless Humans, and The One I wrote For You directed by Andrew Lauer and starring Kevin Pollack and Cheyenne Jackson. [1] [2] [5]

He also done some stage work such as Guards At The Taj at the Marin Theater Company, [6] Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity with the Capital Stage Company, Boston Abolitionist Project, Great Catherine, Blanco Posnet, and Hansel and Gretel at the American Repertory Theater, and Imaginary Invalid at Moscow Art Theatre. [2]

His first major recurring role was in 2017 on Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Vik Roy where he appeared for 16 episodes. [1] [7]

After that, he appeared on shows like iCarly, Ordinary Joe , [8] Never Have I Ever , and CSI: Vegas . [1] [3] [9]

Personal life

He is married and has one child. [1] [10] His acting influences are Ryan Reynolds, Idris Elba, and Chadwick Boseman. [11]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotesRef(s)
2010Afghan HoundThird Incarnation of ZemarFirst Movie Role according to IMDb
2014The One I Wrote for YourJoe Barry [5]
2017Super Mehra BrosAJ MehraLead Role in Movie
2019 The Divorce Party Young Executive [5]
2020 Useless Humans Louis [5]
2021PhobiasBilly McNerny [7]
2023ScrambledJeff
Dumb Money Baiju Bhatt [12] [13]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef(s)
2014 The Royals Jay DFirst Television Role according to IMDb
2015 General Hospital Dr. Curtis
The 101Jay D
Extant Humanich Tech [5]
2016FruitlessParvesh
ESL - English as a Second LanguageJeevanTV Movie [5]
Terms and ConditionsDustin
2017 Famous in Love Lenny [5]
2017–2018 Grey's Anatomy Dr. Vikram Roy [8] [14]
2018Grey's Anatomy: The WebisodesDr. Vikram Roy [14]
2019ArrangedRaj
2020–2022 Never Have I Ever Prashant [5] [8] [9]
2021 iCarly Luke Tyler
Ordinary Joe Sai [8]
2022 CSI: Vegas Damien Pak

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