Parvesh Cheena

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Parvesh Cheena
Born
Parvesh Singh Cheena

(1979-07-22) July 22, 1979 (age 42)
Elk Grove Village, Illinois, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active2002–present

Parvesh Singh Cheena (born July 22, 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Gupta in the TV series Outsourced and as Sunil Odhav on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. He also voices Bodhi in T.O.T.S.

Early life[]

Cheena was born in Elk Grove, Illinois, of Indian descent. He grew up in Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and went to Waubonsie Valley High School.[1][2] He studied musical theatre at the Chicago College of Performing Arts.

Personal life[]

Cheena is openly gay.[3] In August 2021, he criticized representation of gay characters in media, telling Insider that "White people were allowed to be gay, in a sense, or be queer as an identifier. People see our color and ethnicity first before our sexuality."[4]

He is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[5]

He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.[6]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year Title Role Notes
2002 Barbershop Samir
2004 Barbershop 2: Back in Business Samir
2007 Because I Said So Foreign Guy
2007 Universal Remote Sammy / Baliff
2008 The Other End of the Line NY cabbie
2008 The Ode Salman
2009 House Broken Zerban
2014 Hello I Must Be Going Abhay
2015 Everything Before Us Eric
2016 Time Toys Franklin
2017 Literally, Right Before Aaron Rohan
2019 Lady and the Tramp Pet Shop Owner
2021 Music Electronics Store Manager

Television[]

Year Title Role Notes
2004 ER Dr. Agbo
2006 The Suite Life of Zack & Cody Mr. Babalabaloo
2006 The West Wing Barista
2006–2007 Help Me Help You Parvesh
2008 Brothers & Sisters Jordan
2007–2008 'Til Death Ken / Leo
2009 My Name Is Earl Savage Indian in Jungle Episode: "My Name is Alias"
2010 Sons of Tucson Stewart
2010 Outsourced Gupta 22 Episodes
2011 The Fresh Beat Band Genie Bollywood Beats – Jai Ho
2012 Squad 85 Alan Rickman
2012–2016 Transformers: Rescue Bots Blades (voice)
2013 Arrested Development Kabir Episode: "Indian Takers"
2013 Sean Saves the World Jerry 7 Episodes
2014 A to Z Dinesh 13 Episodes
2015–2018 The Goldbergs Andy Cesunda 3 Episodes
2016–2018 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Sunil Odhav 7 Episodes
2017 The Odd Couple Neil Armstrong Episode: "Conscious Odd Coupling"
2017 Fresh Off The Boat Mr. O'Connor Episode: "Pie vs. Cake"
2018 The Big Bang Theory Marcus Episode: "The Tenant Disassociation"
2018 Alone Together Neel Episode: "Pootie"
2018 Craig of the Creek Raj (voice) 3 episodes
2018 The Guest Book Sabu 2 Episodes
2019 Code-Switched Parvesh
2019 Mr. Mom Jerry Episode: "Pilot"
2019–present T.O.T.S. Bodhi (voice) Recurring Role
2019-2020 The Rocketeer Deany (voice) Recurring Role
2020 Mira, Royal Detective Manish (voice)
2020 The Owl House Tibbles (voice) Recurring Role
2020 Connecting Pradeep
2021 Mythic Quest Zach 2 episodes
2021 Centaurworld Zulius Main role; 20 episodes
2021 Green Eggs and Ham TBA (Voice) Episode: TBA

References[]

  1. ^ "From small stage to big screen", The Fox Valley Sun, October 10, 2002 (by Judy Buchenot)
  2. ^ Cheena, Parvesh (October 15, 2010). "Twitter @parvesh". Twitter. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
  3. ^ http://www.afterelton.com/people/2010/09/parvesh-cheena-outsourced
  4. ^ White, Abbey; Chik, Kalai (August 31, 2021). "LGBTQ characters of color are making animation history — but creatives of color can't escape the industry's discriminatory past". Insider. Archived from the original on August 31, 2021.
  5. ^ @Parvesh (November 28, 2020). "and yep. I guess this was a duh already but I'm all on board with the @DemSocialists. Already paid up and joined. I…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ^ "Outsourced: Gupta played by Parvesh Cheena". NBC Universal. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010. Retrieved October 15, 2010.

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