Hi, my name is Ash T.

No relation to Ice T.

I was born in the rolling foothills of Wise, Virginia decades ago. My parents came from a region of India called Karnataka, and that is why I am bilingual, speaking both English and Kannada.

Although I was in love with acting after performing Gonbei the Duck Hunter at the age of 5, I took the financially safe route of becoming doctor.

And at the height of my career, I was a Transfusion Medicine physician at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center—Ashok Tholpady, MD—having published 22 peer-reviewed articles on Pubmed and many book chapters.

But something was amiss. I wasn’t happy. I wasn’t pursuing my childhood dream of becoming an actor. I felt like I was in the Matrix. I was either going to be a bot and read a script my whole life or I could glitch out and create my own script. I didn’t want to be tied to what my family believed to be my destiny as a doctor.

So I decided to take a leap of faith…I quit my medical career, moved to LA and put my heart and soul into my acting dream.

After many years of hard work, I’m thriving in Hollywood. I’ve been on amazing television shows like Better Call Saul and Dead To Me across Oscar and Emmy winners, gotten representation with prestigious talent agencies like Exclusive Artists, Bankston, and Crossbeam Talent, performed standup and worked in world-class theatre. More to come, but I’m so grateful I took a chance to break free of the mold.