Samrat Chakrabarti

Samrat Chakrabarti, a British-American actor and musician with Indian heritage, trained at Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theater Training, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts. His screen work includes Spike Lee's 2004 film She Hate Me, Manish Acharya's Loins of Punjab Presents, Bombay Summer and Stray Dolls. On television he has appeared in Rescue Me, Conviction, Law & Order, The Sopranos and Damages, and his zombie film Didn't Die had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2025. As a musician, he started Brandeis University's a cappella group VoiceMale in 1994 and has kept writing arrangements and songs for it; a U.S. CARA honored his song What's It all About as Best Original Pop/Rock Song. He also sang with Five O' Clock Shadow and The Hyannis Sound, and for the 2012 stage musical Bumbug the Musical he composed the score and helped write its book and lyrics.