Manish Dayal

Manish Dayal (born Manish Sudhir Patel; June 17, 1983) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the CW teen drama series 90210 (2011–2012) as well as in the films The Hundred Foot Journey (2014) and Viceroy's House (2017). From 2018 to 2023, he was featured as a main cast member of the Fox medical drama series The Resident.

Manish Dayal
Dayal at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival premiere of Viceroy's House
Born	Manish Sudhir Patel (1983-06-17) June 17, 1983 (age 41)[1][2] Orangeburg, South Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2005–present
Children	2[3]

Early and personal life

Dayal was born to an Indian Gujarati family in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His parents, Hema and Sudhir Patel, are from Gujarat. He has three sisters, including Neisha Patel, who is a vascular neurology fellow at Columbia University Medical Center. He uses his grandfather's first name, Dayal, as his stage surname.^[4] He attended Marshall Elementary School and later went to Heathwood Hall in Columbia, South Carolina. He subsequently obtained a degree in International Business from George Washington University. After he graduated in 2005, he moved to New York to pursue his acting career, and five years later he moved to Los Angeles.^[5][6]

Career

Dayal started his career appearing in national commercials for McDonald's, Windows, Nintendo, and Domino's Pizza. In 2008, he played the lead in The New Group's twice-extended off-Broadway show Rafta, Rafta. He also voiced Mohammed, a taxi driver in Rockstar Games's critically acclaimed video game Grand Theft Auto IV. He played a small role in The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Paula van der Oest's Domino Effect. After guest-starring on CSI: Las Vegas on CBS, Dayal went on to play Hal, a code-breaking computer analyst, on the AMC series Rubicon. Dayal also starred in the romantic comedy Walkaway, which explores love and culture set in New York. In 2010 and 2011, he played Ravi, the smug A-team leader on Outsourced, a comedy series from NBC. He also played Raj Kher, an alternative college student recovering from cancer, in the third and fourth seasons of The CW's 90210.

He starred as Hassan Kadam in The Hundred Foot Journey (2014).^[7] From 2018 to 2023, he has starred in the Fox TV series The Resident.

Filmography

Dayal in 2014

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Break the Addiction: An Inconvenient Truth	Kibhnar
2007	On the Other Side	Jack	[8]
2008	Cain's Mark	Gypsy
2009	Karma Calling	Trainee
2010	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	NYU clerk
2010	Walkaway	Vinay
2011	The Call	Taruk
2011	The Domino Effect	Sid
2011	The Whirling Dervish	Zahir
2012	White Frog	Ajit
2012	Breaking the Girls	Tim
2014	The Hundred-Foot Journey	Hassan Kadam
2014	I'm Obsessed with You: But You've Got to Leave Me Alone	Cyrus Kapoor
2017	Viceroy's House	Jeet Kumar
2020	Holidate	Faarooq
2022	Rise	Kevin

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Rubicon	Hal	3 episodes
	Outsourced	Ravi	Episode: "Jolly Vindaloo Day"
	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Rishi Parayan	Episode: "Internal Combustion"
2011	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Samir Doss	Episode: "To the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap"
2011–2012	90210	Raj Kher	14 episodes
2012	Switched at Birth	Scuba	4 episodes
	The Good Wife	Dinesh	Episode: "Live from Damascus"
2014	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Farid Salim	Episode: "Criminal Stories"
2016	Halt and Catch Fire	Ryan Ray	8 episodes
2016–2017	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Vijay Nadeer	3 episodes
2018–2023	The Resident	Dr. Devon Pravesh	Main cast; Director: 2 episodes
2019–2021	Fast & Furious: Spy Racers	Shashi Dhar (voice)	Main role (season 1 and 5), Netflix series
2024	The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon	Ash Patel	4 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Grand Theft Auto IV	Mohammed/Hot dog Vendor
2009	Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars	Hot dog Vendor	Uncredited
2011	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Additional voices
2021	Fast & Furious Spy Racers: Rise of SH1FT3R	Shashi Dhar[9]