Raj Ghatak is renowned as an award winning actor of great versatility, with credits covering stage and screen. As an ethnically ambiguous actor, Raj has played many different nationalities, ranging from Puerto Rican, Latino, Afghan as well as the South Asian countries. He recently completed a theatrical production of the critically acclaimed The Kite Runner (playing Afghan), for which he won a Best Actor award. Raj was cast after an international search as a lead role in double Oscar winner A R Rahman's Bombay Dreams, produced by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber. Raj was nominated for Best Actor, as well as Best Supporting Performance in a Musical, and was shortlisted as being one of the top 50 British Asian artists in the United Kingdom. Raj has worked internationally many times, and regularly in the most prestigious theatres in London and the rest of the UK. He is often found to be in award winning and nominated projects on screen and stage. Raj has been at the forefront of the wave of British Asian talent within the UK, working in independent film alongside commercial film and television. He played Grayson in the BAFTA winning Dead Set, and the lead role of Mitu in the award nominated film Diary of A Thagee. He recently completed Christopher Robin for Disney, BAFTA winning Hetty Feather and Taboo with Tom Hardy. |