Raghuram Shetty

Raghuram Shetty is a multi-talented Hollywood Actor and a Performing Artist born in coastal Karnataka, India. He started acting as a Drama Artist when he was only 8. He learned various advanced Folk and classical Performing Arts of rich coastal India in the young age. In 6th grade, he performed in an all-night Indian musical, Yakshagana, one of the world's most advanced Dance-Drama Theatre. In spite of heavy costumes, he shocked the seasoned performers with series of rigorous dancing and rich improv skills! His high energy, self-esteem and passion to win in every activity in school, helped him to open new pages in the history book throughout his life. He won the "Best Outgoing Student" Awards in every school he went to and was coronated as the "champion of championships" in all 4 years of his engineering college days. He developed scholarly ability in local literature (Tulu, Kannada writer/orator), expertise in a wide variety of folk and classical theaters, award-winning athlete (fast runner, jumper, star player in multiple sports), Best Cadet (National Cadet Corps award), honored yOga / Meditation Guru, noted Hypno therapist, Marshal Art coach("Kalari Pattu"), etc, besides the range of his entertainment expertise. He was also a great community organizer forming various ethnic/cultural /charity groups in every city he lived worldwide. Since designing a high-tech product for ISRO (NASA of India) while in college, he excelled in his IT career both as an engineer and Executive. He's part of many industry leaders (eg: world #1 Apple) across the world and successfully retained "rare all-rounder" title there too! He says "growing up in culture rich east Indian Villages thru high-tech industry life in India / US, with constant delving on so many dimensions of life I touched, helped in developing my own unique acting abilities. I don't act, I simply transform!". He wrote /directed /showcased and performed numerous unique variety shows across India before moving to US in 1994. Upon his arrival in America, being a vibrant storyteller and performer, he partnered with various local American and International cultural and charity organizations to help his life mission of spreading true knowledge "Entertain, Educate, Empower". He trained thousands of kids and adults in various theatrical, yoga, personality development and charity work. He founded "Yakshaloka USA", wrote, directed, and staged over 150 variety shows in major theaters across USA. With his sons winning international acting awards, he moved to LA in 2014 to support family's Hollywood dream. Since his debut as a lead in "Aditi", a short film from USC, he has featured in lead and principal roles in many shorts/feature films, many major National/International Commercials (Super Bowls included!), TV/Internet/Web series, PSAs, Dance and Music Videos, and so on. Unlike the other Hollywood / Bollywood celebrities, he continues to influence the American audience through his expertise in unique Theaters. For example, on 27 Sept 2014, dressed in heavy costumes, he reached out to 40,000+ audience flown to Orange County with 5+ hours of continuous performance which instantly attracted African drummers and local musicians to join his roving entertainment going across the huge fields. This was along the lines of his unique reputation in New England, across East Coast, Florida to all over CA of surprising the mass with unparalleled energy, costumes and hours of performances. IGV announced him as "World #1 Performer of most diverse and vibrant Performing Arts". He lives in Hollywood with his wife and 3 sons, an all actors multi-talented family!