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Raoul Bhaneja

Raoul Bhaneja is an English-Canadian actor, musician, writer and producer.

Bhaneja was born in Manchester. His father is an Indian Sindhi, and his mother is Irish. He is a graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada and Ottawa's Canterbury High School's Arts Canterbury programme for drama.

Raoul Bhaneja has appeared in more than a hundred and fifty film and television projects in addition to a long list of theatre productions and is also a four time Canadian Screen Award nominee.

His first job in television was in the first season of the 1996 cutting edge comedy The Newsroom, directed by Ken Finkleman for CBC. He was one of the stars of the television series Train 48, which produced over 300 episodes in two years and was broadcast on Global.

Bhaneja's first starring role in a feature film was with Andy Jones and Mary Walsh in Extraordinary Visitor in 1998. Directed by John Doyle, it debuted at The Toronto International Film Festival. Other features include Atom Egoyan's Ararat, The Sentinel opposite Michael Douglas, Godsend with Rebecca Romijn, Touch of Pink with Jimi Mistry and Kyle MacLachlan, Weirdsville with Wes Bentley, the romantic comedy The Right Kind of Wrong, the U.S. independent film As Good As You, Portrait of a Serial Monogamist, Ice Soldiers, Miss Sloane, opposite Jessica Chastain, HBO Films Fahrenheit 451 and the 2020 Sundance breakout Possessor opposite Christopher Abbot.

His television roles include series regular Medhi on The Trades (TV series) and recurring roles such as the crooked Southern lawyer Richard Shirley on Blindspot (NBC), Titans (Netflix), Departure (Peacock/GlobalTV), The Dresden Files (SyFy), Pure (WGN), Rogue (Direct), The Best Laid Plans, Crawford, Sunshine Sketches, At The Hotel (CBC) with guest-star appearances on Grey's Anatomy (ABC), Hudson and Rex (CITY), V-Wars (Syfy), Rookie Blue (Global & ABC), Remedy (Global), Motive (CTV), Beauty and The Beast, Nikita (The CW), Bitten, Alphas (Syfy), Warehouse 13 (Syfy), Frankie Drake, The Ron James Show, The Republic of Doyle, Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Private Eyes, Saving Hope (CTV), The Listener (CTV), Flashpoint (CTV), The Art of More (Sony Crackle), Suits (USA) and many others.

Bhaneja narrated the 2020 novel, Afterlife Crisis, by Randal Graham.

In January 2006 Bhaneja debuted in Hamlet (solo), a one-man version of Shakespeare's Hamlet directed by Robert Ross Parker, which has been performed across Canada including an engagement at The National Arts Centre in the fall of 2013, in the United Kingdom at The Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as well as in New York City on a number of occasions, including Off Broadway. The production is the subject of a documentary, directed by Jeff Stephenson, that was later nominated for the 2008 Gemini Award.

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