Anand Desai-Barochia

Anand Desai-Barochia (born 3 July) is a British actor. He is best known for his role as Janzo in the CW fantasy series The Outpost (2018–2021). Desai-Barochia and Piryanka Chopra's joint campaign with Bumble India premiered in August 2018. The print campaign subsequently aired shortly after. Early life Anand Desai-Barochia was born in Nunthorpe, a village in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, to a mother who was a neuroradiologist and a father in the hotel industry. He is of Indian descent. Desai-Barochia was introduced to acting through school, where a teacher gave him the lead role in the graduating play. Desai-Barochia also learned to play the piano to a reasonable standard. At sixteen, after completing his education at Nunthorpe School, Desai-Barochia auditioned and won a full scholarship to the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London. After graduating, he studied at the Lee Strasburg Theatre & Film Institute in Los Angeles in 2010. Career Desai-Barochia made his screen debut in 2011 as a choir boy in Skins, and land small parts in The Fresh Beat Band , Days of Our Lives and the 2013 film Cavemen. He secured a larger role as Vikram in the movie The Tiger Hunter in 2016, which premiered at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica, California in 2017 and has appeared in 3 episodes of Emmerdale as Sunil Batth in 2017 to 2018. His most successful role to date has been to play the character Janzo the oddball brewer/alchemist in 49 episodes of The CW's The Outpost from 2018 to 2020. Desai-Barochia has worked alongside Jessica Green who plays Talon, and Jake Stormoen who plays Garret for two seasons, with a third series filmed in Serbia in late 2020.