Sagar Radia

He was brought up in Harrow, London. His mother was a teacher at a primary school and his father worked in the post office. His sister works in finance. He studied at City, University of London^[1] and worked in marketing before focusing in acting.^[2]

He had an early role in Casualty. He appeared in Peter Kosminsky’s Britz alongside Riz Ahmed, playing brothers, and had a recurring role in ITV series The Good Karma Hospital. He was also understudy to Jesse Eisenberg in the theatre production The Spoils at Trafalgar Studios in London in 2016.^[2][3][4]

Since 2020, Radia has played trader Rishi Ramdani in the HBO series Industry. The character gained more screen time in the sophomore season and became a series regular in season three in 2024, with the character described as a "fan favourite".^[5] The episode White Mischief in the third series focused centrally on him, with the episode being praised as a “standout” episode of the series as he struggles with debt, with his character described "as hubristic and greedy as Adam Sandler’s Howard Ratner in Uncut Gems", a film which Radia said he watched prior to filming the episode.^[6][7][8]

In 2022, he began production on the interactive romantic comedy video game 10 Dates.^[9] He appeared in the 2023 British film Unicorns.^[10] He has a role in BBC Alba Scotland-set drama An t-Eilean (The Island).^[11]

A keen football fan, he supports Manchester United. He lives in London. When he was a struggling actor he worked in retail in the department store Selfridges.^[12]