Acting
Sep 8, 1998
Centreville, Virginia, USA
Amita Rao
Acting
Biography
Amita Rao is an American comedian and actress known for Deli Boys (2025), Adults (2025) and Sick Day (2024). She attended drama school prior to moving to Chicago to train in long-form improvisational comedy at the Annoyance Theatre and at The Second City and performed with comedy troupe Gag Reflex. She portrayed Nandika in 2025 Hulu comedy series Deli Boys. She had a dramatic role in 2024 suspense thriller television series The Emperor of Ocean Park. She portrays Issa in FX comedy series Adults (originally developed under the name Snowflakes), created by The Tonight Show writers Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw and executive producer by Nick Kroll, about five housemates in Queens, New York but filmed in Toronto. Her character was described as "loud, dramatic [and] sexually liberated" by Time (magazine) and "unapologetically brash".
Feature Films (4)
A burnt out assistant's perfect plan to get sent home sick is derailed when a swarm of locusts invades Los Angeles.
SICK DAY
Julia, an ambitious game designer, and Charlie, a struggling musician, are at a loss for how to repair their volatile relationship. After attending a couples-therapy seminar run by mysterious twin healers, they find that the ups-and-downs of their relationship have supernatural effects on the world around them. With earthquakes, the stock market, and entire nations at risk, Charlie and Julia must confront whether their passionate love can survive amidst so much chaos.
Wishful Thinking
After being dogged on by his friend, Li Angorola, a young comedian, Rocco Meo, looks to find something he can fall back on in case of his eminent demise in comedy. Will he be able to pick up a new skill or lose all social awareness in the process?
Real Talk with Rocco Meo - Responsibility
Follows the overworked and underpaid employees of a struggling tech startup on the day of a high-stakes AI product launch that could make them millions. But when the company’s secretive invention begins turning against them, the staff finds itself trapped in a chaotic fight for survival…at least until the checks clear.
See Bot Run
Television & Series (3)
A group of twenty-somethings in New York trying to be good people, despite being neither "good" nor "people" yet.
Adults
Celebrated comedian Taylor Tomlinson hosts the smartest show on television about the dumbest things on the internet alongside a panel of guests from the worlds of entertainment, comedy, music, and beyond.
After Midnight
When their convenience store-magnate father suddenly dies, a pair of pampered Pakistani American brothers lose everything and are forced to reckon with their Baba's secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld.