Parvesh Singh Cheena is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Gupta in the TV series ''Outsourced'' and as Sunil Odhav on ''

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''. He also voices Bodhi in '' T.O.T.S.'' and Blades in '' Transformers: Rescue Bots''.

Early life

Cheena was born in

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and is of Indian descent. He grew up in Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and went to Waubonsie Valley High School. He studied musical theatre at the Chicago College of Performing Arts.

Career

Cheena's first feature film role was in '' Barbershop'' as Samir. He reprised the role in the 2004 sequel, '' Barbershop 2: Back in Business''. His other film roles include '' Because I Said So'' (2007), '' The Other End of the Line'' and '' The Ode'' (2008), '' House Broken'' (2009), '' Just Before I Go'' (2014), '' Everything Before Us'' (2015), ''Time Toys'' (2016), ''

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'' (2017), ''

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'' (2019), '' Definition Please'' (2020), ''

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'' (2021), '' The Bob's Burgers Movie'' (2022), and '' Sometimes I Think About Dying'' (2023).

Personal life

Cheena is gay. He told Michael Jensen of

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in September 2010 that he

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in college, told his family at age 21, and was in a relationship with a script coordinator at the time. In August 2021, he criticized representation of gay characters in media, telling

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that "White people were allowed to be gay, in a sense, or be queer as an identifier. People see our color and ethnicity first before our sexuality." He is also a member of the

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. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

Official site
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