An American actor who has appeared in both feature films and television series is Dileep A. Rao (born July 29, 1973). He appeared in the sci-fi series Avatar (2009–present), the horror movie Drag Me to Hell (2009), and the thriller Inception (2009) all directed by Christopher Nolan.
After graduating, Rao played the lead in Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink, which had its American premiere. Rao settled in Los Angeles and started acting in local productions at the Berkeley Rep, South Coast Repertory, and the Manhattan Theater Club, among others.
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Rao was born in Los Angeles, California, to an engineer father and an Indian-born physicist mother. He spent his formative years in Claremont, California; Yanbu, Saudi Arabia; and Denver, Colorado.
On June 7, 2002, he participated on Jeopardy! and took home $34,400. Rao was chosen at random from more than 1,600 applicants on June 8, 2008, to play the NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle live on air with Will Shortz.
He made appearances in Drag Me to Hell and Avatar in 2009. As a member of the ensemble cast of Christopher Nolan’s 2010 film Inception, he was nominated for a number of prizes. In the movie, he was a pharmacologist.
