Rajiv Surendra, author portrait
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Rajiv Surendra

Born and raised in Toronto, RAJIV SURENDRA is a film and television actor and son of Tamil immigrants. He attended a special-arts high school, Wexford School for the Arts, specializing in painting, sculpting and pottery, and continued his studies at University of Toronto. Although Rajiv is best known for playing Kevin Gnapoor in the film Mean Girls, he is more recently a professional calligrapher, potter, painter and writer.

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