Manish Dayal (born Manish Sudhir Patel; June 17, 1983) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the CW teen drama series 90210 (2011–2012) 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 Fox medical drama series The Resident.
Early and personal life
Dayal was born to an
Gujarati people family in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His parents, Hema and Sudhir Patel, are from
Gujarat,
India. 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.
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.
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
Taxicab 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
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).
Filmography
Film
|
|
| 2006 | Break the Addiction: An Inconvenient Truth | Kibhnar | |
| 2008 | Indian Beauty | Jack | |
| Cain's Mark | Gypsy | |
| 2009 | Karma Calling | Trainee | |
| 2010 | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | NYU clerk | |
| Walkaway | Vinay | |
| 2011 | The Call | Taruk | |
| The Domino Effect | Sid | |
| The Whirling Dervish | Zahir | |
| 2012 | White Frog | Ajit | |
| Breaking the Girls | Tim | |
| 2014 | The Hundred-Foot Journey | Hassan Kadam | |
| I'm Obsessed with You (But You've Got to Leave Me Alone) | Cyrus Kapoor | |
| 2017 | Viceroy's House | Jeet Kumar | |
| 2020 | Holidate | Faarooq | |
| 2022 | Rise | Kevin | |
Television
|
|
| 3 episodes |
| Episode: "Jolly Vindaloo Day" |
| Episode: "Internal Combustion" |
| Episode: "To the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap" |
| 14 episodes |
| 4 episodes |
| Episode: "Live from Damascus" |
| Episode: "Criminal Stories" |
| 8 episodes |
| 3 episodes |
| Main cast; Director: 2 episodes |
| Main role (season 1 and 5), Netflix series |
| 4 episodes |
|
Video games
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|
| 2008 | Grand Theft Auto IV | Mohammed/Hot dog Vendor | |
| 2009 | | Hot dog Vendor | Uncredited |
| 2011 | | Additional voices | |
| 2021 | Fast & Furious Spy Racers: Rise of SH1FT3R | Shashi Dhar | |
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