Anupam Tripathi

Anupam Tripathi (Hindi: अनुपम त्रिपाठी; born 2 November 1988) is an Indian actor based in South Korea.

His first main role as Ali Abdul in Netflix's South Korean survival drama series Squid Game (2021) garnered him worldwide recognition.

[2] He had a minor role as a bomb expert fighting for Korean independence in the play 불량청년, which was selected for the 36th Seoul Theater Festival,[4] 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).

[2] Tripathi's first main cast credit was as the undocumented Pakistani worker Ali Abdul on the Netflix original series Squid Game (2021).

[6][7] 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.