Manish Dayal

A talented actor and burgeoning director, Manish Dayal continues to engage audiences with dynamic roles on film and television. Dayal is perhaps best known for his starring role as “Hassan Kadam” in “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” opposite Helen Mirren, directed by Lasse Hallström and produced by Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey. He also starred in “Viceroy’s House,” alongside Gillian Anderson, Hugh Bonneville and Michael Gambon.

Most recently, Dayal appeared opposite Emma Roberts and Kristin Chenoweth in the romantic comedy “Holidate,” directed by John Whitesell and written by Tiffany Paulsen. On television, Dayal has appeared in notable roles in “Halt and Catch Fire” and “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Additional credits include “90210,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “The Good Wife,” “Rubicon,” “Switched At Birth,” “The Sorcerer's Apprentice” and “The Domino Effect.”

The short film “Fifteen Years Later,” in which he stars opposite Matt McGorry and Rachel Brosnahan, marked Dayal’s directorial debut. Currently, he is developing a project based on Anjan Sundaram’s memoir, “Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey into the Congo.”

On stage, he played the lead in The New Group's twice-extended Off-Broadway comedy hit, “Rafta Rafta,” by Ayub Khan Din, named by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 10 best plays of the year.