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- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Utkarsh Ambudkar, 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), Blindspotting (2018), Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019), The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020), Free Guy (2021), and Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021). 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). He made his Broadway debut in Lin-Manuel Miranda's improvisational hip-hop show Freestyle Love Supreme in 2019.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpouseNaomi(? - present) (3 children)
- ParentsIndu AmbudkarSuresh V. Ambudkar
- Earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (New York, NY).
- A former VJ for MTV Desi.
- Also goes by the name UTK the INC in the band The Beatards.
- Alumnus of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
- An American actor of South Asian/Indian heritage.
- I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
- I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
- I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.
- It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.
- It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'
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