# 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.

## 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. 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.

## 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). From 2018 to 2023, he has starred in the Fox TV series The Resident.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2006 | Break the Addiction: An Inconvenient Truth | Kibhnar |
| 2007 | On the Other Side | Jack |
| 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 |
| 2010 | Outsourced | Ravi | Episode: "Jolly Vindaloo Day" |
| 2010 | 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 |
| 2012 | 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 | |