Raj Ghatak
- Actor
Raj Ghatak is renowned as an award winning actor of great
versatility, with credits on stage, screen and hundreds of voice overs/audio work.
Raj has played many different nationalities as an ethnically ambiguous actor, ranging from Puerto Rican, Latino, Afghan, Mexican as well as the South Asian countries. He played the lead role in the theatrical production of the critically acclaimed The Kite Runner (playing Afghan), for which he won a Best Actor award.
Raj has been at the forefront of the wave of British Asian talent within the UK, working in independent film alongside commercial film and television. He played series regular Grayson in BAFTA winning Dead Set, and was in BAFTA winning Taboo with Tom Hardy. Raj can be seen in 2 seasons of RTS winning Ackley Bridge, BAFTA nominated Ghosts, was a semi recurring role of love rat Aashiq Sawney in Doctors, and Christopher Robin for Disney.
Raj was cast after an international search as a lead role in double Oscar winner A R Rahman's Bombay Dreams, produced by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber. Raj was nominated for Best Actor, as well as Best Supporting Performance in a Musical, and was shortlisted as being one of the top 50 British Asian artists in the United Kingdom. Raj has worked internationally many times, and is often found to be in award winning and nominated projects on screen and stage.
Raj has played many different nationalities as an ethnically ambiguous actor, ranging from Puerto Rican, Latino, Afghan, Mexican as well as the South Asian countries. He played the lead role in the theatrical production of the critically acclaimed The Kite Runner (playing Afghan), for which he won a Best Actor award.
Raj has been at the forefront of the wave of British Asian talent within the UK, working in independent film alongside commercial film and television. He played series regular Grayson in BAFTA winning Dead Set, and was in BAFTA winning Taboo with Tom Hardy. Raj can be seen in 2 seasons of RTS winning Ackley Bridge, BAFTA nominated Ghosts, was a semi recurring role of love rat Aashiq Sawney in Doctors, and Christopher Robin for Disney.
Raj was cast after an international search as a lead role in double Oscar winner A R Rahman's Bombay Dreams, produced by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber. Raj was nominated for Best Actor, as well as Best Supporting Performance in a Musical, and was shortlisted as being one of the top 50 British Asian artists in the United Kingdom. Raj has worked internationally many times, and is often found to be in award winning and nominated projects on screen and stage.
