Sugith Varughese

Sugith Varughese (born 1958) is a Canadian writer, director and actor. 2Background Born in Cochin, Kerala, India into a Syrian Christian family ("Varughese," also sometimes spelled "Varghese" and "Verghese" and variously pronounced, is Malayalam for "George"), he immigrated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as a child when his neurosurgeon father obtained a professional appointment there. His family's native language is Malayalam; having grown up in anglophone western Canada he naturally speaks English with a Canadian accent but from time to time affects an assortment of South Asian accents when playing dramatic roles that call for them. Sugith Varughese was raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, began university studies at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon with a double major in pre-medicine and drama, and continued on to an undergraduate degree in drama at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a Master of Fine Arts at York University in Toronto. He went on to write, act in and direct film and television productions in Canada and the USA. He was the first visible minority accepted to attend the Canadian Film Centre as a writer-director. As a director, he has been nominated for and won several Canadian film and television and international film festival awards. He holds a black belt in karate. 2Credits His credits include the following. 3Acting As a film and television actor: More than 90 credits including “Orphan”, "Solar Attack" (as the character Patel), and “Mission to Mars.” Other television credits include “Suits”, “The Strain” and “Degrassi: The Next Generation”. He was a series regular in the comedy CBC-TV’s “An American in Canada” aka “Frostbite” in Australia (Gemini nomination for Best Ensemble Performance) and played recurring characters in Omni TV’s nighttime soap “Metropia”, CBC-TV’s “Little Mosque on the Prairie”, season one of “The Girlfriend Experience” on Starz and “Kim's Convenience” on CBC-TV. He starred in “Home on the Range” for CBC-TV which won a gold prize for best TV pilot at the Houston Film Festiva