‘Deli Boys’: Comedy Series Adds 10 To Season 1 Cast

Rosy Cordero
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EXCLUSIVE: The Onyx Collective for Hulu comedy series Deli Boys is rounding out its cast with 10 including Kevin Corrigan (Ray Donovan), Alexandra Ruddy (City of Lies), Tim Baltz (The Righteous Gemstones) and Zainne Saleh (The Binge).

In Deli Boys, when their convenience store-magnate father suddenly dies, a pair of pampered Pakistani American brothers (Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh) lose everything and are forced to reckon with their Baba’s secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld.

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Alfie Fuller, Poorna Jagannathan and Brian George also star.

The full list of new additions can be found below.

Corrigan recurs as Chickie Lozano, an old-school, Italian American crime boss in Philadelphia. He is terrifying yet charming. Ruddy recurs as Agent Mercer, a female FBI agent excluded from the boys club of the agency and on a mission to prove herself. Baltz recurs as Director Simpson, the regional director of the FBI and Agent Mercer’s boss who fancies himself an American hero. Saleh recurs as Bushra, Mir’s (Asif Ali) fiancé, smart and ambitious but carries herself as if she were a Pakistani princess.

Sakina Jaffrey recurs as Seema, Bushra’s (Zainne Saleh) mother and a powerful woman who thinks her daughter deserves better. Amita Rao recurs as Nandika, who is into cosplay and Raj (Saagar Shaikh). She works the front counter of her parents’ Indian restaurant.

Anish Jethmalani recurs as Patika, a docile man who owns a failing Indian restaurant with his family. Minita Gandhi recurs as Latika, the wife of Patika (Anish Jethmalani) who runs their restaurant and the show. Geoffrey Arend guest stars as Ralph, the temperamental cocaine “chef” of the Dar operation, with Azhar Usman in the recurring guest star role of Feraz.

The half-hour, 10-episode series is created by Abdullah Saeed and developed by Jenni Konner and Nora Silver under Jenni Konner Productions. Michelle Nader, who also serves as showrunner, is an executive producer alongside Saeed, Konner and Silver. Nisha Ganatra is executive producer and director on the pilot, with Vali Chandrasekaran as a non-writing executive producer on the pilot.

Corrigan is repped by CESD and Authentic Talent and Literary Management; Ruddy is repped by Heroes and Villains Entertainment, Gersh, Ginsburg Daniel Kallis; Baltz is repped by El Centro, Gersh; Saleh is repped by Innovative Artists and Vault Entertainment; Jaffrey is repped by Greene Talent; Rao is repped by Grossman & Jack Talent, Authentic Management and GGSSC, LLP; Jethmalani is repped by Stewart Talent and Venture Entertainment; Gandhi is repped by Limitless Management and Gray Talent Group; Arend is repped by CESD and Door 24. Usman is repped by Artists First and Felker Toczek Suddleson.

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