Anupam Tripathi
Biography
Anupam Tripathi (born 2 November 1988) is an Indian actor based in South Korea. He has appeared in various South Korean television series and films. His first main role as Ali Abdul in Netflix's South Korean survival drama series Squid Game (2021) garnered him worldwide recognition.
Tripathi began acting in Korean plays and commercials during his third year of university. His first feature film credit was as an unnamed Sri Lankan man in Ode to My Father (2014).
He had a minor role as a bomb expert fighting for Korean independence in the play which was selected for the 36th Seoul Theater Festival, and had various minor unnamed roles in television series like Hospital Playlist (2020), Rain or Shine (2017), and films such as Space Sweepers (2021) and Asura: The City of Madness (2015). Many of his roles relate to being a migrant worker in Korean society.
Tripathi's first main cast credit was as the undocumented Pakistani worker Abdul Ali on the Netflix original series Squid Game (2021). Director Hwang Dong-hyuk said that it was "hard to find good foreign actors in Korea" and that he cast Tripathi because of his emotional acting capabilities and fluency in Korean.
Following the series' international success, Tripathi's follower count on Instagram increased from 10,000 to over 2.5 million in a matter of days.
