Raj Ghatak

For the National:

The Father and the Assassin

Training

Raj Ghatak trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and QMU.

Theatre

In London’s West End: The Secret Garden, Hector, Bombay Dreams, West Side Story and the multi-Olivier Award-winning Life of Pi.

Other productions include: Amir in The Kite Runner UK tour; Miss Meena and the Masala Queens for RIFCO; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at Sheffield Crucible; This Tuesday at the Arcola; The Bad, Sad and the Broken Hearted and Soho Cinders at Soho Theatre; The Low Road, The Spiral, Free Outgoing and Unheard Voices at the Royal Court; Golgotha at Tristan Bates; The Great Extension, High Heel Parrotfish and Airport 2000 for Theatre Royal Stratford East; AmDram the Musical and Simply Cinderella at Leicester Curve; Hijra at the Bush and West Yorkshire Playhouse; My Dad’s Corner Shop at Birmingham Rep; Don’t Look at My Sister Innit! and Arrange That Marriage for Bloomsbury Theatre; Bollywood or Bust at Watermans Art Centre; East is East at Oldham Coliseum; Nagwanti for Tara Arts.

Ackley Bridge, The Amazing Mr Blunden, Ghosts, BAFTA winning Taboo, The 7.39, Dead Set, Doctors, EastEnders, Hetty Feather, Sinchronicity, All About Me and Hard Cash.

Film

Blimp, Hostages, An Evening With Taglioni, Christopher Robin, Defrosted, Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie, Job’s Dinner, Diary of a Thagee, Dangerous Parking, Karma Magnet, Starter for 10, The Lives of the Saints and Birthday Girl.

Awards

Bombay Dreams – WhatsOnStage nomination, Best Supporting Performance in a Musical

The Kite Runner – Eastern Eye ACTA Award, Best Actor

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – WhatsOnStage Award, Best Musical Winner

(Updated September 2023. Photograph by Marc Cartwright)