Parvesh Cheena
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Parvesh Cheena | |
|---|---|
| Born | Parvesh Singh Cheena |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2002–present |
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 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. He also voices Bodhi in T.O.T.S. and Blades in Transformers: Rescue Bots.
Cheena was born in Elk Grove Village, Illinois and is of Punjabi descent.[1] He grew up in Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and went to Waubonsie Valley High School.[2] He studied musical theatre at the Chicago College of Performing Arts.[3]
Career
Cheena's first feature film role was in Barbershop as Samir.[4] He reprised the role in the 2004 sequel, Barbershop 2: Back in Business.[5] 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), Literally, Right Before Aaron (2017), Lady and the Tramp (2019), Definition Please (2020), Music (2021), The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022), and Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023).[6]
Personal life
Cheena is gay. He told Michael Jensen of AfterElton in September 2010 that he came out in college, told his family at age 21, and was in a relationship with a script coordinator at the time.[7] In August 2021, he criticized representation of gay characters in media, telling Insider 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."[8]
He is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[9]
He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.[10]
