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Utkarsh Ambudkar ( ; born December 8, 1983), also known by his stage name UTK the INC, is an American actor, rapper, and singer. He is known for his film roles including Pitch Perfect (2012), Game Over, Man! (2018), Blindspotting (2018), Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019), The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020), Free Guy (2021), Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021), and World's Best (2023). His television roles include The Mindy Project, White Famous, Never Have I Ever, Mira, Royal Detective, and Ghosts. He also appeared in the Hulu limited series The Dropout (2022).
He made his Broadway debut in Lin-Manuel Miranda's improvisational hip-hop show Freestyle Love Supreme in 2019.
Through his mother, Ambudkar is a descendant of the lawyer and jurist Sir Vembakkam Bhashyam Aiyangar.
He played Skatch, a con artist, in a deleted scene of the 2020 Disney live-action remake of Mulan. That same year, he appeared in Disney's Godmothered, and then in the 2021 action comedy Free Guy. In 2020, Ambudkar debuted as the mongoose Chikku in the Disney Junior animated series Mira, Royal Detective. He is currently starring in the CBS supernatural sitcom Ghosts (2021).
He was a member of the musical group "The Beatards." Since 2005, Ambudkar has been a part of hip-hop improv group Freestyle Love Supreme under the name UTK the INC. As part of the group, he participated in the limited television series for Pivot in 2014 and made his Broadway debut in the group's self-titled show on October 2, 2019.
Ambudkar has appeared in several Youtube sketch comedy skits including the comedy groups CollegeHumor and Key & Peele. Ambudkar starred in Force Grey: Giant Hunters (2016) and Force Grey: Lost City of Omu (2017), a Dungeons & Dragons actual play web series with Matthew Mercer as the Dungeon Master, where he played the character Hitch, a rogue with a nefarious past. In 2023, he appeared as a guest player in Critical Role third campaign, also hosted by Mercer, as the sorcerer Bor'Dor.
He struggled with alcoholism in the early 2010s. In a 2023 interview, he revealed that he has been sober for eight and a half years. He also stated that his lack of sobriety at the time was why he was replaced as Aaron Burr in Hamilton. He told The New York Times in 2019: "It was ego, it was being a daily marijuana user, it was partying at night, it was being preoccupied, growing up as a brown person, feeling unattractive, and seeking validation of the opposite sex to sort of fill a hole, my self-worth."
| 2007 | Rocket Science | Ram | |
| 2008 | Last Call | Nikash | |
| 2012 | Pitch Perfect | Donald | |
| 2015 | Freaks of Nature | Parminder | |
| 2016 | Ride Along 2 | Amir | |
| Raja | |||
| 2017 | Basmati Blues | Rajit | |
| 2018 | Blindspotting | Rin | |
| Game Over, Man! | Bae Awadi | ||
| 2019 | Brittany Runs a Marathon | Jern Dahn | |
| 2020 | Mulan | Skatch | Deleted scene |
| Max Vora | |||
| Godmothered | Grant | ||
| 2021 | Tom & Jerry | Real Estate Rat (voice) | |
| Free Guy | Mouser | ||
| Tick, Tick... Boom! | Todd | ||
| 2022 | The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild | Orson (voice) | A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information. |
| Marry Me | Coach Manny | ||
| The Drop | Robbie | ||
| 2023 | World's Best | Suresh Patel | Also writer and producer |
| 2024 | My Dead Friend Zoe | Alex | |
| Doin' It |
| 2010— 2011 | UTK; Harry | 2 episodes | |
| 2011 | Danni Lowinski | Rasoul | Television film |
| 2012 | Freestyle Love Supreme | UTK | Television film |
| 2013–2017 | Rishi Lahiri | 10 episodes | |
| 2013 | China, IL | Aladdin (voice) | Episode: "Wild Hogs" |
| 2016 | Jay (voice) | Episode: "Much Apu About Something" | |
| Pizza | 3 episodes | ||
| 2017 | White Famous | Malcolm | 10 episodes |
| Himself | Documentary television film | ||
| 2018 | Master Controll (voice) | Episode: "Big Poppy" | |
| Bartlett | Sanjay Kahn | 4 episodes | |
| 2018–2020 | Brockmire | Raj | 5 episodes |
| Harvey Street Kids | Fredo (voice) | 17 episodes | |
| 2020 | Mira, Royal Detective | Chikku (voice) | Main cast |
| Central Park | Songwriter: "The Park Is Mine" (with Rafael Casal) | ||
| 2021–2023 | Never Have I Ever | Mr. Manish Kulkarni | Recurring (season 2-4) |
| Blindspotting | Niles Turner | 2 episodes | |
| 2021 | Robot Chicken | Aang, Sora, Xenomorph Student (voice) | Episode: "May Cause Numb Butthole" |
| 2021–present | Ghosts | Jay Arondekar | Main role |
| 2021 | Special | Ravi | 3 episodes |
| 2022 | The Dropout | Rakesh Madhava | Recurring role |
| 2023 | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Anand (voice) | Recurring role |
| Celebrity Jeopardy! | Himself | Contestant (season 2) | |
| 2024 | King Bumi | Recurring role | |
| Yo Gabba Gabbaland | Himself | Episode: "Little" | |
| 2025 | Running Point | Malkeet Dasari | Episode: "Doljanchi" |
| SuperKitties | Champster Glamster (voice) | Recurring role |
| 2009 | Hardly Working | Self (Freestyle Love Supreme) | Guest role; 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Hitch | Main role; 6 episodes | |
| 2017–2018 | Force Grey: Lost City of Omu | Main role; 20 episodes | |
| 2023 | Critical Role (campaign three) | Bor'Dor Dog'Son | Guest role; 5 episodes |
| 2026 | Achmed Khan | Animated special | |
| 2004 | History of the Word | Ali | Crossroads Theatre | |
| 2005 | The Me Nobody Knows | Performer | Staged Reading, Vineyard Theatre | |
| The Snow Queen | Kay | Urban Stages | ||
| 2007 | History of the Word | Ali | Washington Irving High School LaGuardia Performing Arts Center | |
| 2008 | Rafta, Rafta... | Etash Tailor | Acorn Theater/The New Group, Off-Broadway | |
| Animals Out of Paper | Suresh | McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Off-Broadway | | |
| 2009 | Dov and Ali | Ali | Cherry Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway | |
| 2010 | The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity | Vigneshwar Paduar | Second Stage Theatre, Off-Broadway | |
| 2012 | Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them | Rahim | Second Stage Theatre, Off-Broadway | |
| 2013 | Hamilton | Aaron Burr | Vassar College, Workshop | |
| 2019 | Freestyle Love Supreme | Himself | Greenwich House Theater, Off-Broadway | |
| 2019–20 | Booth Theatre, Broadway |
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