Raoul Bhaneja
Biography
Raoul Bhaneja, an English-Canadian actor who also works as a musician, writer and producer, studied drama at Ottawa's Canterbury High School arts program and at The National Theatre School of Canada. His first job in television came in 1996 on the CBC comedy The Newsroom, and he was one of the stars of Train 48. He took his first leading film role in Extraordinary Visitor in 1998, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Later features include Ararat (2002), Godsend (2004), Touch of Pink (2004), The Sentinel (2006), Weirdsville (2007), The Right Kind of Wrong (2013), Ice Soldiers (2013), Miss Sloane (2016) and Possessor (2020). A four-time Canadian Screen Award nominee, he has toured a solo stage version of Hamlet and the musical Life, Death and The Blues, and he sings with Raoul and The Big Time, a blues group he formed in 1998 that has won a Maple Blues Award.
52years old
Turns 53 on June 6in 207 days
- Born Manchester
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 14
- Career span
- 24 years2002 to 2026
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Beyond film
In January 2006 Bhaneja debuted Hamlet (solo), a solo take on Shakespeare's Hamlet that Robert Ross Parker directed. It played across Canada, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Off Broadway, and a documentary on it earned a 2008 Gemini Award nomination.
First role
Bhaneja's first television job came in the first season of The Newsroom, a 1996 comedy directed by Ken Finkleman for CBC.
First role
In 1998 Bhaneja landed his first lead part in a feature film, Extraordinary Visitor, acting alongside Andy Jones and Mary Walsh. John Doyle directed it, and it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Beyond film
Bhaneja leads the blues band Raoul and The Big Time, which he started in 1998 and which won a Maple Blues Award. The group put out Hollywood Blvd in 2014, recorded with members of Canned Heat and The Mavis Staples Band.
Beyond film
Bhaneja's stage musical Life, Death and The Blues, a theater and concert hybrid with a live band on stage, toured across Canada and gave over a hundred performances to more than 20,000 patrons.
Behind the camera
At the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg, Bhaneja went on to produce the Canadian premiere of Qui Nguyen's play Vietgone.
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