Suraj Sharma

Suraj Sharma is an Indian actor who began his screen career with the title role in Life of Pi (2012). After several rounds of auditions, he won the part of Pi Patel over 3,000 other young men, and his performance under director Ang Lee brought positive reviews and a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination. He later played Aayan Ibrahim in the fourth season of the Showtime thriller Homeland and played Rinku Singh in Million Dollar Arm (2014), a sports biopic. His film work also includes the comedy drama Umrika (2015), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the slasher sequel Happy Death Day 2U (2019), and the Indian American drama The Illegal (2021). On television, he took the part of Rakesh Singh in the CBS comedy drama God Friended Me, which aired from 2018 to 2020, and he joined the cast of the How I Met Your Mother spinoff How I Met Your Father, which premiered in January 2022.