Ravi Patel

Ravi Patel is an American actor, director, writer, editor, and producer. He was born in Freeport, Illinois to Indian American parents. He grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 with double majors in Economics and International Studies. An investment banker after college, Patel co-founded poker magazine All In while living in L.A. An emcee job with improvised stand-up in between acts, led to auditions, Patel's first agent, and two dozen commercials in a year. He has been in over 70 national commercials, films and TV shows, most notably Transformers, Scrubs, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Comedians, Hawaii Five-O, Easy Money, Past Life, Master of None, and Grandfathered. Patel co-directed and starred in Meet the Patels, an autobiographical documentary that he made with his sister, Geeta Patel which won the audience award at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival.