Amita Rao
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
Amita Rao is an American comedian and actress known for Deli Boys (2025), Adults (2025) and Sick Day (2024). She attended drama school prior to moving to Chicago to train in long-form improvisational comedy at the Annoyance Theatre and at The Second City and performed with comedy troupe Gag Reflex. She portrayed Nandika in 2025 Hulu comedy series Deli Boys. She had a dramatic role in 2024 suspense thriller television series The Emperor of Ocean Park. She portrays Issa in FX comedy series Adults (originally developed under the name Snowflakes), created by The Tonight Show writers Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw and executive producer by Nick Kroll, about five housemates in Queens, New York but filmed in Toronto. Her character was described as "loud, dramatic [and] sexually liberated" by Time (magazine) and "unapologetically brash".
TV Credits
Adults
Character: Issa
A group of twenty-somethings in New York trying to be good people, despite being neither "good" nor "people" yet....
After Midnight
Character: Self
Celebrated comedian Taylor Tomlinson hosts the smartest show on television about the dumbest things on the internet alongside a panel of guests from the worlds of entertainment, comedy, music, and beyond....
Deli Boys
Character: Nandika
When their convenience store-magnate father suddenly dies, a pair of pampered Pakistani American brothers lose everything and are forced to reckon with their Baba’s secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld....
Emperor of Ocean Park
Character: Receptionist
Set in the worlds of politics, Ivy League academia, and the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard. It centers on Talcott Garland, an Ivy League law professor whose quiet life is shattered when his father, Judge Oliver Garland, dies of an apparent heart attack. The nature of the judge’s death is questioned by Tal’s sister, Mariah, a former journalist and inveterate conspiracy theorist, who believes that the judge, a failed Black nominee to the Supreme Court, met with foul play....
Movie Credits
SICK DAY
Character: Elara
A burnt out assistant's perfect plan to get sent home sick is derailed when a swarm of locusts invades Los Angeles....