Name Sugith Varughese Role Director | ||
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Occupation Writer, director, actor Nominations Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series Movies and TV shows Similar People Paul Ziller, Jo Meuris, Matthew Ferguson, Helene Joy, Robin Brule | ||
Sugith Varughese on Little Pretty and The Exceptional
Sugith Varughese (born 1958) is an Indian-born Canadian writer, director and actor.
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- Sugith Varughese on Little Pretty and The Exceptional
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- Background
- Credits
- Film and Television
- Stage
- Writing
- Writing awards
- Directing
- References
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Background
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, 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. 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.
Credits
His credits include the following.
Film and Television
Other credits include Veritas: The Quest; F/X: The Series; Kung Fu: The Legend Continues; Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.
Stage
As a stage actor:
Writing
Stage
Film and Television
Writing awards
Vaurghese has been nominated for a Writers Guild of Canada award five times and won a Writers Guild of Canada award for “Talespinners Collection 2” (NFB). He received a Gemini Award nomination for writing “The Secret Life of Goldfish”. He was a finalist for an ACTRA Award for writing “Best of Both Worlds.” He won the first York Trillium Award – Most Promising Writer, Television from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.