Manu Narayan

Manu Narayan

Born: August 16, 1973
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Manu Narayan (born August 16, 1973) is an American actor, film producer, singer, songwriter, composer and saxophonist. He served as a Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University, his alma mater, from 2013-2016.

Narayan was hailed as a "promising young star...a compelling actor and outstanding singer who can light up a stage with sheer force of personality," by UPI in 2004 when he made his Broadway debut in the Andrew Lloyd Webber, A.R. Rahman musical Bombay Dreams, originating the role of the "hero" Akaash. Narayan co-starred as Rajneesh alongside Mike Myers in the Paramount Pictures' feature film The Love Guru (2008).

Movies for Manu Narayan...

Anything's Possible
Title: Anything's Possible
Character: Sasan
Released: July 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Anything’s Possible is a delightfully modern Gen Z coming-of-age story that follows Kelsa, a confident high school girl who is trans, as she navigates through senior year. When her classmate Khal gets a crush on her, he musters up the courage to ask her out, despite the drama he knows it could cause. What transpires is a romance that showcases the joy, tenderness, and pain of young love.
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Keeping Company with Sondheim
Title: Keeping Company with Sondheim
Character: Self / Theo
Released: May 27, 2022
Type: Movie
Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott’s creative process of bringing a reimagined gender-swapped production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring rehearsal and performance footage, plus new interviews with Elliott, Sondheim, Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone and members of the original 1970 cast, the broadcast tells the story of the show’s Broadway debut in a city on the verge of bankruptcy to its reimagination 50 years later as both Broadway and New York City emerge from one of the greatest crises in contemporary history.
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Title: And Just Like That…
Character: Dr. Vikash Patel
Released: December 9, 2021
Type: TV
This new chapter of “Sex and the City” follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.
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Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
Title: Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
Character: Self - Performer
Released: April 26, 2020
Type: Movie
To celebrate the 90th birthday of Broadway songwriting great Stephen Sondheim, an A-list group of performers sing songs of inspiration from his songbook in a concert event filmed in their homes. Hosted and co-produced by Raúl Esparza, the acclaimed one-night-only event was created as a benefit for ASTEP (Artists Striving to End Poverty).
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The Assistant
Title: The Assistant
Character: Amir (voice)
Released: January 31, 2020
Type: Movie
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
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Title: Emergence
Character: Justin
Released: September 24, 2019
Type: TV
A police chief takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
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Title: Prodigal Son
Character: Dr. Fred Chabra
Released: September 23, 2019
Type: TV
The son of a notorious serial killer becomes an acclaimed criminal psychologist who uses his unique insight into how killers think to help the NYPD.
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Title: Bull
Character: George
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: TV
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.
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99 Homes
Title: 99 Homes
Character: Khanna
Released: September 25, 2015
Type: Movie
After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Arjun
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Title: The Following
Character: Reece
Released: January 21, 2013
Type: TV
Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature, escapes from death row. The FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy to consult on the case, as he was the one responsible for Carroll’s capture in 2003. Ryan, working closely with an FBI team, including Mike Weston and FBI Specialist Debra Parker, piece together the ever-growing web of murders orchestrated by the devious Carroll.
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Title: Deception
Character: Doctor
Released: January 7, 2013
Type: TV
A detective goes undercover to investigate the murder of her best friend.
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Title: Unforgettable
Character: Sami
Released: September 20, 2011
Type: TV
Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember everything. She reluctantly joins the New York City Police Department's Queens homicide unit after her former boyfriend and partner asks for help with solving a case. The move allows her to try to find out the one thing she has been unable to remember, which is what happened the day her sister was murdered.
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A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song
Title: A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song
Character: Ravi
Released: September 5, 2011
Type: Movie
In this modern telling of the classic tale, aspiring singer Katie Gibbs falls for the new boy at her performing arts high school. But Katie's wicked stepmother and stepsister are scheming to crush her dream before she can sing her way into his heart.
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Walkaway
Title: Walkaway
Character: Darius
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Four intersecting stories, each exploring different aspects of love and companionship, as four friends struggle to find their way through the meanders of Indian matrimony, in a bittersweet attempt to combine their deep-rooted tradition and 'modern' New York life in perfect harmony
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Title: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Character: Quant Analyst (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 2010
Type: Movie
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.
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The Last Airbender
Title: The Last Airbender
Character: Fire Nation Head Prison Guard
Released: June 30, 2010
Type: Movie
The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
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Title: Rubicon
Character: Bob Standard
Released: June 13, 2010
Type: TV
An intelligence analyst at a national think tank in New York City called the American Policy Institute discovers that he may be working with members of a secret society that manipulates world events on a grand scale.
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Title: Nurse Jackie
Character: Paramedic
Released: June 8, 2009
Type: TV
Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a handful of secret strategies to relieve the pain, and stay one step ahead of total disaster.
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The Love Guru
Title: The Love Guru
Character: Rajneesh
Released: June 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skills are put to the test when he must get a brokenhearted hockey player's marriage back on track in time for the man to help his team win the Stanley Cup.
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Title: Lipstick Jungle
Character: Development Person #2
Released: February 7, 2008
Type: TV
Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also served as executive producer alongside showrunner/head writer Oliver Goldstick. The pilot was directed by Gary Winick.
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Quarter Life Crisis
Title: Quarter Life Crisis
Character: Jonathan
Released: May 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Dumped on his 27th birthday by his college sweetheart for being indecisive, Neil makes a silly bet that takes him on a wild ride through New York’s singles scene, accompanied by four testosterone-packed imbecile buddies and one crazy scheming New York taxi driver. On these madcap adventures Neil journeys from life choice paralysis to real life manhood.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Eric Choudry
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Henry
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Clap Clap
Title: Clap Clap
Character: Jay
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Sabaash Naidu
Title: Sabaash Naidu
Character: CIA Agent
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Sabaash Naidu is a cancelled Indian trilingual comedy-adventure film written, co-produced and directed by Kamal Haasan. Starring Haasan in the lead, he will reprise the role of Balram Naidu, one of the characters which he played in Dasavathaaram (2008). The film also stars his daughter Shruti Haasan and Ramya Krishnan in major roles.