Birth Name: Dileepan S. Rao

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Birth: July 29, 1973

Ethnicity: Kannadiga Indian

Dileep Rao is an American actor. His roles include Drag Me to Hell, Avatar, and Inception.

He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Indian parents, an engineer father and a physicist mother. His father was born in Karnataka, with origins in Maharashtra. His mother is from Bellary, Karnataka. Dileep is fluent in Kannada. He was raised partly in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, Denver, Colorado, and Claremont, California.

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