squid game fan favorite Anupam Tripathi has signed with CAA on all fronts, The Hollywood Reporter only learned.
The Indian actor moved to Korea on an art scholarship and spent the next decade working mostly in small parts on screen and on stage until he landed his first major role in what became a worldwide sensation for Netflix. As Ali Abdul (aka Player No. 199), the sweet and trusting Pakistani migrant worker trying to earn a living for his wife and child, he had to speak broken Korean with an Urdu accent (while the actor in real life fluent in Korean and Hindi).
Now a SAG Award nominee, Tripathi shares the nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series with the rest of the squid game cast – the first nomination for a series that is not in English.
The actor, who is also fluent in English, will next be featured in Marginal Mediaworks’ upcoming podcast drama scammers† Described as The talented Mr Ripley meets The White TigerTripathi will star in the English-language series written by emerging writers Vishnu Vallabhaneni and Karan Sunil.
Tripathi is still operated by B&C Content of Beverly Hills and Seoul.