Meet accidental actor Rati Gupta, the latest face on the smash-hit comedy, The Big Bang Theory
It’s been 12 years of The Big Bang Theory, and the nerdy quartet (and their even funnier halves) have kept us in splits. But the American sitcom, now in its final season, has yet one more comedic card up its sleeve: Indian-American actress Rati Gupta, 35, who plays Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar’s) very practical, very focused and amusingly unapologetic arranged bride-to-be. Seeing arranged marriage on Indian airwaves is one thing, but watching the concept play out on prime-time American TV and reading the op-eds it spurs is quite another. Here, Gupta talks to us about her new vocation and essaying the role of a nonstereotypical woman of colour.
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