Utkarsh Ambudkar

Utkarsh Ambudkar (/ˈʊtkɑːrʃ æmˈbʊdkɑːr/ UUT-karsh am-BUUD-kar; 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, and Ghosts. He recently appeared in the Hulu limited series The Dropout (2022).

Utkarsh Ambudkar
Utkarsh Ambudkar
Ambudkar at the 2022 New York Comic Con
Born (1983-12-08) 8 December 1983 (age 40)
Other names
  • UTK the INC
  • UTK
Alma materTisch School of Arts
Occupations
  • Actor
  • rapper
  • singer
Years active2004–present
Spouse
Naomi Ambudkar
(m. 2019)
Children3

He made his Broadway debut in Lin-Manuel Miranda's improvisational hip-hop show Freestyle Love Supreme in 2019.

Early life

Utkarsh Ambudkar was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 8, 1983, to a Marathi father and a Tamil mother. He grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where his parents, who had emigrated from India in the 1980s, were research scientists at the National Institutes of Health. He starred in comedy roles at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland, and he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2004.

Through his mother, Ambudkar is a descendant of the lawyer and jurist Sir Vembakkam Bhashyam Aiyangar.

Career

Ambudkar is a former VJ for MTV Desi. He appeared in the comedy film Pitch Perfect, as the character Donald, and in the television shows The Mindy Project and The Muppets. He was set to star in the Fox series Eat, Pray, Thug, but the show was not picked up. Ambudkar originated the role of Aaron Burr in the developmental readings of Hamilton. He formerly played Raj on the sitcom Brockmire. He played Jern in the 2019 film Brittany Runs a Marathon.

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's third campaign, also hosted by Mercer, as the sorcerer Bor'Dor.

Personal life

Ambudkar married in 2019, and has three children.

He was addicted to alcohol 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."

Discography

  • The Gold Tusk EP (2006)
  • Members Only EP (2012)
  • Vanity (2019)
  • Petty (2019)

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2007 Rocket Science Ram
2008 Last Call Nikash
2012 Pitch Perfect Donald
2015 Freaks of Nature Parminder
2016 Ride Along 2 Amir
Barbershop: The Next Cut 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
The Broken Hearts Gallery 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
Marry Me Coach Manny
The Drop Robbie
2023 World's Best Suresh Patel Also writer
2024 My Dead Friend Zoe Alex Completed

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2006; 2010 The Electric Company UTK; Harry 2 episodes
2011 Danni Lowinski Rasoul Television film
2012 Freestyle Love Supreme UTK Television film
2013–2017 The Mindy Project Rishi Lahiri 10 episodes
2013 China, IL Aladdin Voice, episode: "Wild Hogs"
2016 The Simpsons Jay Voice, episode: "Much Apu About Something"
The Muppets Pizza 3 episodes
2017 White Famous Malcolm 10 episodes
The Problem with Apu Himself Documentary television film
2018 Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Master Controll Episode: "Big Poppy"
Bartlett Sanjay Kahn 4 episodes
2018–2020 Brockmire Raj 5 episodes
Harvey Street Kids Fredo, Teen Boy, Tiny Duck Voice, 17 episodes
2020 Mira, Royal Detective Chikku, Male Judge, Train Engineer, Engineer, Passenger, Uncle Voice, main role
Central Park Songwriter: "The Park Is Mine" (with Rafael Casal)
2021-2023 Never Have I Ever Mr. Manish Kulkarni Recurring (season 2-4)
2021 Blindspotting Niles Turner Guest Star (season 1, episode 8)
Robot Chicken Aang, Sora, Xenomorph Student #1 Voice, episode: "May Cause Numb Butthole"
2021–present Ghosts Jay Arondekar Main role
2021 Special Ravi 3 episodes
2022 The Dropout Rakesh Madhava Recurring
2023 Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Anand Voice, recurring role
Celebrity Jeopardy! Himself Contestant
2024 Avatar: The Last Airbender King Bumi Recurring

Web

Year Title Role Notes
2016 Force Grey: Giant Hunters 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

Theatre

Year Title Role Venue Ref.
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

References

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