Anand Desai-Barochia (born 3 July) is a British actor. He is best known for his role as Janzo in

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'' (2018–2021). Desai-Barochia and Piryanka Chopra's joint campaign with ''

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'' India premiered in August 2018. The print campaign subsequently aired shortly after.

Early life

Anand Desai-Barochia was born in

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, a village in

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, North Yorkshire, to a mother who was a

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and a father in the hotel industry. He is of Indian descent. Desai-Barochia was introduced to acting through school, where a teacher gave him the lead role in the graduating play. Desai-Barochia also learned to play the piano to a reasonable standard. At sixteen, after completing his education at Nunthorpe Grammar School, Desai-Barochia auditioned and won a full scholarship to the

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. After graduating, he studied at the Lee Strasburg Theatre & Film Institute in

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in 2010.

Career

Desai-Barochia made his screen debut in 2011 as a choir boy in '' Skins,'' and land small parts in '' The Fresh Beat Band '', '' Days of Our Lives'' and the 2013 film ''

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.'' He secured a larger role as Vikram in the movie ''

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'' in 2016, which premiered at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in

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in 2017 and has appeared in 3 episodes of ''

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'' as Sunil Batth in 2017 to 2018. His most successful role to date has been to play the character Janzo the oddball brewer/alchemist in 49 episodes of

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'' from 2018 to 2020. Desai-Barochia has worked alongside Jessica Green who plays Talon, and

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who plays Garret for two seasons, with a third series filmed in Serbia in late 2020. In 2020, Desai-Barochia appeared in the

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as Lord Hardy. Desai-Barochia was promoted to Associate Producer by

for an extended 13 episodes of series 3 of ''

'' in 2021. The same year Desai-Barochia Signed with Innovative Artists.

Charity work

Desai-Barochia costars alongside '' Piryanka Chopra'' empowring women in India through their joint campaign with ''

''. The campaign was incredibly successful in championing women to have a voice in a country that hasn’t always been so accepting of females at the helm. In India the term “loose” has long been used to denigrate women who choose not to conform to traditional gender norms. Since launch, there have now been over 18 million interactions with women making the first move on ''

'' India. (2021)

Filmography

Film

Television

Self

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Desai-Barochia, Anand Living people 21st-century English male actors Actors from Middlesbrough Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts British male actors of Asian descent English people of Indian descent People from Nunthorpe Year of birth missing (living people)