Elyes Gabel Biography

Elyes Gabel (born 8 May 1983) is a British actor. Among his most notable roles he has portrayed are Dr. Gupreet "Guppy" Sandhu in the BBC medical drama Casualty, Dothraki Rakharo in Seasons 1 and 2 of the HBO series Game of Thrones, and P.E. teacher Rob Cleaver in the BBC drama Waterloo Road. He also appeared in the ITV drama Identity and portrayed Detective Adam Lucas in Season 3 of Body of Proof.

Early life

Gabel was born in London, UK, and has lived in Canada, before returning to the UK to live in Bristol and Manchester. He attended St Damian's RC science college in Ashton-Under-Lyne. Gabel trained at Strodes College, the Oldham Theatre Workshop and the Northern Kids Theatre Company. He is a keen sportsman and enjoys tennis and football. In an interview with British magazine "Take It Easy", Gabel stated that he had "touches of Indian" in himself.

Career

Gabel dropped out of drama school to play the part of the mummy Nuff, in the children's television show I Love Mummy. He has also participated in such theatre productions as West Side Story, Oliver! and Diary of Anne Frank.

In 2004, Gabel joined the cast of Casualty as Gurpreet "Guppy" Sandhu. He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2005 National Television Awards for the role. Gabel decided to leave Casualty in 2007 to pursue new acting challenges and concentrate on recording music with his band.

Gabel appeared as Vimel, a trainee priest, in the BBC drama Apparitions, alongside Martin Shaw. The first episode aired on BBC One on 13 November 2008. Gabel went on to appear as Danny in the television horror series Dead Set, in which he is turned into a zombie. He then starred as P.E. teacher Rob Cleaver in the school drama Waterloo Road from series 4, which began on 7 January 2009.

Gabel starred in the 6-part ITV drama Identity as DC Jose Rodriguez, a member of the identity unit. He also played Prince Djem, brother of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire in episode 3 of Showtime's The Borgias. In May 2011, Gabel played the part of Shahrouz in the second series of Psychoville. He was later cast as the Dothraki "Bloodrider" Rakharo in HBO's Game of Thrones.

Gabel starred as Detective Adam Lucas in Season 3 of Body of Proof in 2013. That same year, Gabel appeared in the feature film World War Z, alongside Brad Pitt. He was also cast in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Gabel is currently playing Walter O'Brien in the CBS drama Scorpion, which debuted in 22 September 2014 with 14 millions vieweres.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Boogeyman 3	Ben
2011	Kingdom of Dust	Ahmed
2011	Everywhere and Nowhere	Jaz
2012	Exit Strategy	Tarik Fayad
2012	Widow Detective	Troy Vargas
2013	Welcome to the Punch	Ruan Sternwood
2013	World War Z	Andrew Fassbach
2014	Interstellar		Post-production
2014	A Most Violent Year		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Casualty	Jean-Claude Tournier	Episode: "Breaking Point"
2002	I Love Mummy	Nuff
2004	Doctors	Steve	Episode: "They Never Cut The Cord"
2004	Casualty	Jude	Episode: "Where There's Life..."
2004-07	Casualty	Gurpreet "Guppy" Sandhu	Regular role
2005	Casualty@Holby City	Gurpreet "Guppy" Sandhu	Episode: "Teacher's Pet"
2008	Dead Set	Danny	Episode: 1.1, 1.3 (credit only), 1.5 (credit only)
2008	Apparitions	Vimal	Episode: 1.1
2009	Waterloo Road	Rob Cleaver	Ten episodes
2010	Identity	DC Jose Rodriguez	Six episodes
2011	The Borgias	Prince Djem	Episode: "The Moor"
2011	Psychoville	Sharouz/Shahrauz	Five episodes
2011	Game of Thrones	Rakharo	Seven episodes
2012	Silent Witness	Umar	Episodes: "And Then I Fell in Love: Part 1", "And Then I Fell in Love: Part 2"
2013	Body of Proof	Det. Adam Lucas	Main Character
2014	Scorpion	Walter O'Brien	Main character