Sagar Radia is an English television and film actor. Since 2020, he has portrayed Rishi Ramdani in the HBO series Industry .
He was brought up in Harrow, London. His mother was a teacher at a primary school and his father worked in the post office. His sister works in finance. He studied at City, University of London [1] and worked in marketing before focusing in acting. [2]
He had an early role in Casualty . He appeared in Peter Kosminsky’s Britz alongside Riz Ahmed, playing brothers, and had a recurring role in ITV series The Good Karma Hospital . He was also understudy to Jesse Eisenberg in the theatre production The Spoils at Trafalgar Studios in London in 2016. [2] [3] [4]
In 2020, he could be seen as Rishi Ramdani in the first series or HBO series Industry , with the character gaining more screen time in the sophomore season and a series regular in season three in 2024 with the character described as a "fan favourite". [5] The episode White Mischief in the third series focused centrally on him, with the episode being praised as a “standout” episode of the series as he struggles with debt, with his character described "as hubristic and greedy as Adam Sandler’s Howard Ratner in Uncut Gems ", a film which Radia said he watched prior to filming the episode. [6] [7] [8]
In 2022, he began production on the interactive romantic comedy video game 10 Dates. [9] He appeared in the 2023 British film Unicorns . [10] He has a role in BBC Alba Scotland-set drama An t-Eilean (The Island). [11]
A keen football fan, he supports Manchester United. He lives in London. When he was a struggling actor he worked in retail in the department store Selfridges . [12]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Britz | Rafiq Wahid | |
| 2014 | Doctors | Wasim Malik | 1 episode |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation | Controlled Lab technician | |
| 2015 | Holby City | Zayn | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Stan Lee's Lucky Man | PC Tariq | 1 episode |
| 2017-2019 | The Good Karma Hospital | AJ Nair | 15 episodes |
| 2020-present | Industry | Rishi Ramdani | 23 episodes |
| 2023 | Unicorns | Faiz | |
| 2025 | An t-Eilean | DCI Ahmed Halim |