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name: "Anoop Desai"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 December 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:14:39.841450+00:00"
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# Anoop Desai

Actor. Born 20 December 1986 in North Carolina, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 December 1986, North Carolina, USA
- **Also known as:** Totem, Anoop Manoj Desai

## Biography

Anoop Manoj Desai is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He first gained national attention as a sixth-place finalist on the eighth season of *American Idol* in 2009. He subsequently released music under the pseudonym TOTEM and made his professional screen debut in 2020.

Desai has appeared in television series including *Billions* (2020), *Little Voice* (2020), *Russian Doll* (2022), *Evil* (2022), *What We Do in the Shadows* (2022–2023) as the Djinn, *Under the Bridge* (2024) as Raj Masihajjar, and *St. Denis Medical* (2025) as Ben Harris. His film roles include Josh in *The Adults* (2023) and Robert in *Babygirl* (2024).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Babygirl* (2024), Fi1m 73, as Robert — [page](https://film.one/film/babygirl.md)

## Also known for

- *Evil* (2019), Larry
- *Billions* (2016), Dev Satyal
- *Russian Doll* (2019), Salim
- *What We Do in the Shadows* (2019), Djinn
- *Under the Bridge* (2024), Raj Masihajjar
- *The Adults* (2023), Josh
- *Little Voice* (2020), Ravi
- *St. Denis Medical* (2024), Ben Harris

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