Samrat Chakrabarti

Education

Harvard University.

Career

He performed in Indian community functions in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was exposed to music, poetry and the plays of Rabindranath Tagore. Acting career

Having acted all through school, Chakrabarti"s feature film debut came in 2004 in Spike Lee"s She Hate Maine. Early in his career, he starred opposite Molly Shannon in The Wedding Weekend and then in Manish Acharya"s Loins of Punjab Presents.

He also had a role in the Australian film, The Waiting City.

Chakrabarti starred opposite Rebecca Hazelwood in Kissing Cousins and made an appearance in the Yash Raj-produced Bollywood film, New New York Chakrabarti played the character Rishi, a menacing gangster in Ajay Naidu’s Ashes.

He will be seen soon in Murder in the Dark, produced by Napoleon Dynamite’s Chris Wyatt. Chakrabarti has also appeared in television productions.

He has appeared on In Treatment (Home Box Office) as Irrfan Khan’s son, 30 Rock (National Broadcasting Company) opposite Alec Baldwin, Bored to Death (Home Box Office), Blue Bloods (Columbia Broadcasting System) opposite Tom Selleck, Law & Order: Criminal Intent (National Broadcasting Company) opposite Chris Noth, Law & Order (National Broadcasting Company), Love Monkey (Columbia Broadcasting System), The Sopranos (Home Box Office) opposite James Gandolfini, and All My Children.

Chakrabarti was a recurring character on Forex’s Damages opposite Ted Danson. Music career

Samrat Chakrabarti is also an established international musician. In 1994, he founded Brandeis University"s award-winning all male a cappella group, VoiceMale, for which he continues to contribute arrangements and original compositions, including "Please Don"t Go," which appears on the album Suit Up and arrangements for the national a cappella compilation Voices Only 2009.

He was also a part of the group The Hyannis Sound.

In 1998, Chakrabarti produced an untitled album for his musical group, JYDE, and composed the song "Startving". Chakrabarti has also composed the theme song "Dhol Beat" for Loins of Punjab, the and Sundaram Tagore’s Natvar Bhavsar: Poetics of Color.

Achievements

• His film, The War Within, was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award while Bombay Summer, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee won Best Film at the 2009 MIAAC Film Festival. He won a United States. CARA for Best Original People’s/Rock Song for his composition "What"s lieutenant all About".

Membership

He is a former member of the a cappella group Five O" Clock Shadow.