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name: "Rahul Kohli"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 November 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T13:52:54.508134+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Rahul Kohli

Actor. Born 13 November 1985 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 November 1985, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Also known as:** Рахул Коли, 拉胡爾·寇理
- **Frequently works with:** [Dani Parker](https://film.one/person/dani-parker.md), [Jamie Flanagan](https://film.one/person/jamie-flanagan.md), [Kate Siegel](https://film.one/person/kate-siegel.md), [Kathy Gilroy](https://film.one/person/kathy-gilroy.md), [Mike Flanagan](https://film.one/person/mike-flanagan.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahul_Kohli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19843060, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3418510/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1416505

## Coming up

- *The Exorcist: Martyrs* (2027-03-10)

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Midnight Mass*](https://film.one/tv/midnight-mass.md) (72), [*The Fall of the House of Usher*](https://film.one/tv/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher.md) (65)

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## Fi1m on Rahul Kohli

> Rahul Kohli is the quiet outsider in Mike Flanagan's horror series, watching people he does not trust and being courteous about it. He does his best work listening, and the shows have not yet asked him to do much else.

Watch him in *Midnight Mass* (2021) when somebody else is talking, which on that island is most of the time. Sheriff Hassan, the newcomer who does not share the parish's faith, does most of his work with a face that has learned to expect the worst and be polite about it. We kept watching him in scenes that were not his, because that face told us more about the town than several of the sermons did, and the series has a great many sermons. It is a supporting part played as though the whole story were happening to him, which, quietly, it is.

The career started small, with UK television parts in *EastEnders* and *Holby City* and a short-film debut in 2007. The turn came with *iZombie* (2015–2019), where he played Dr Ravi Chakrabarti, a comic medical examiner, in all 71 episodes, and became a familiar face on American television. From 2020 he joined Mike Flanagan's company for a run of horror series: Owen Sharma in *The Haunting of Bly Manor* (2020), Hassan in *Midnight Mass*, and Napoleon Usher in *The Fall of the House of Usher* (2023). Between them he took a lead in *Next Exit* (2022), a road-trip drama with a supernatural streak, outside the Flanagan circle.

What he brings to the ensemble is warmth without softness. In *Usher* he and Kate Siegel get the sharpest lines, and he can throw one away and make it land harder for the carelessness. He prepares heavily, with accent work and physical change and research into the faith or culture of the man he is playing, and the effort does not show on screen, which is the point of effort. Of Flanagan he has said: "To be honest, the material's fantastic, but I don't really care about the material, I care about the man." That loyalty has served him well and it has also kept him in the same sort of part.

Because the reservation, so far, is not about the acting. It is that the roles have been outsiders and supporting figures in genre television, in series we scored 72 and 65, where the writing is talkative and the best acting is done by the people made to sit still and hear it. Kohli is good at sitting still. He was funnier in *iZombie* than anything Flanagan has let him be, and *Next Exit* suggests he can carry a film. The next interesting thing would be a lead that asks him to stop being polite.

## Biography

Rahul Kohli is a British actor born in London on 13 November 1985. He trained with the Questors Theatre company and made early television appearances in British series including *EastEnders* (2013) and *Holby City* (2012).

Kohli gained prominence as Ravi Chakrabarti in the CW series *iZombie* (2015–2019). He has worked repeatedly with director Mike Flanagan, playing Owen Sharma in *The Haunting of Bly Manor* (2020), Sheriff Hassan in *Midnight Mass* (2021) and Napoleon Usher in *The Fall of the House of Usher* (2023).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Fall of the House of Usher* (2023), Fi1m 65, as Napoleon Usher — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher.md)
- *Midnight Mass* (2021), Fi1m 72, as Sheriff Hassan — [page](https://film.one/tv/midnight-mass.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Exorcist: Martyrs* (2027), Acting
- *Iron Lung* (2026), as Additional Voices (voice)
- *The Mighty Nein* (2025), series, as Verrat (voice), Verrat / Guard (voice)
- *The Comic Shop* (2025), series, Acting
- *We Were Liars* (2025), series, as Ed
- *The Life of Chuck* (2025), as Bri
- *The Electric State* (2025), as Miles Watlow
- *A Final Merry* (2024), as Comms Operator
- *Twilight of the Gods* (2024), series, as Egill (voice)
- *Natural Six* (2024), series, as The Card With No Name
- *Death and Other Details* (2024), series, as Sunil Ranja
- *The Fall of the House of Usher* (2023), series, as Napoleon Usher — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher.md)
- *Citadel* (2023), series, as Charles Bantam
- *Next Exit* (2022), as Teddy
- *The Midnight Club* (2022), series, as Vincent Beggs
- *Midnight Mass* (2021), series, as Sheriff Hassan — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/midnight-mass.md)
- *The Haunting of Bly Manor* (2020), series, as Owen Sharma
- *Harley Quinn* (2019), series, as Scarecrow (voice)
- *Love, Death & Robots* (2019), series, as Vave O'Claw (voice)
- *Happy Anniversary* (2018), as Ed
- *Gangsters Gamblers Geezers* (2016), as Dev
- *Supergirl* (2015), series, as Jack Spheer
- *iZombie* (2015), series, as Ravi Chakrabarti
- *Happy New Year* (2014), as DJ
- *Red vs. Blue* (2003), series, as Male Tex (voice)
- *Holby City* (1999), series, as Cal Nelson
- *Deepest, Darkest*, Acting
- *Born to Be King*, as Harry

## Gallery

- ![Rahul Kohli](https://film.one/media/person/721610/gallery-1daf288b2701.jpg) Rahul Kohli — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Rahul_Kohli_April_2015.jpg/1280px-Rahul_Kohli_April_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Aly Michalka and Rahul Kohli @ Izombie panel SDCC 2016](https://film.one/media/person/721610/gallery-29c023e113e5.jpg) Aly Michalka and Rahul Kohli @ Izombie panel SDCC 2016 — https://www.flickr.com/photos/zuko33/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Aly_Michalka_and_Rahul_Kohli.jpg/1280px-Aly_Michalka_and_Rahul_Kohli.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ben Blacker, Rob Thomas, Malcolm Goodwin, Rose McIver, Rahul Kohli, Diane Roggiero-Wright, David Anders and Robert Buckley speaking at the 2015 Wondercon, for "](https://film.one/media/person/721610/gallery-c541a9f4abfc.jpg) Ben Blacker, Rob Thomas, Malcolm Goodwin, Rose McIver, Rahul Kohli, Diane Roggiero-Wright, David Anders and Robert Buckley speaking at the 2015 Wondercon, for " — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ben_Blacker%2C_Rob_Thomas%2C_Malcolm_Goodwin%2C_Rose_McIver%2C_Rahul_Kohli%2C_Diane_Roggiero-Wright%2C_David_Anders_%26_Robert_Buckley_%2816872126079%29.jpg/1280px-Ben_Blacker%2C_Rob_Thomas%2C_Malcolm_Goodwin%2C_Rose_McIver%2C_Rahul_Kohli%2C_Diane_Roggiero-Wright%2C_David_Anders_%26_Robert_Buckley_%2816872126079%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![iZombie panel at the 2017 Comic-Con International: Robert Buckley and Rahul Kohli](https://film.one/media/person/721610/gallery-ee85368851a9.jpg) iZombie panel at the 2017 Comic-Con International: Robert Buckley and Rahul Kohli — https://www.flickr.com/people/vagueonthehow, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/IZombie_%2836174156180%29.jpg/1280px-IZombie_%2836174156180%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![iZombie panel at the 2017 Comic-Con International: Robert Buckley, Rahul Kohli, Rob Thomas, Rose McIver, Diane Ruggiero-Wright, Malcolm Goodwin, David Anders an](https://film.one/media/person/721610/gallery-b0760d367dd4.jpg) iZombie panel at the 2017 Comic-Con International: Robert Buckley, Rahul Kohli, Rob Thomas, Rose McIver, Diane Ruggiero-Wright, Malcolm Goodwin, David Anders an — https://www.flickr.com/people/vagueonthehow, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/IZombie_%2836432685571%29.jpg/1280px-IZombie_%2836432685571%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rahul Kohli speaking at the 2015 Wondercon, for "iZombie", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used el](https://film.one/media/person/721610/gallery-68badd20c2ca.jpg) Rahul Kohli speaking at the 2015 Wondercon, for "iZombie", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used el — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Rahul_Kohli_%2816438196723%29.jpg/1280px-Rahul_Kohli_%2816438196723%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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