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Vinny Chhibber

American actor and producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ138611605 ↗
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Vinny Chhibber is an American actor and producer. He is known for portraying Liam Bhatt in the CBS limited series The Red Line and Jag Bhullar in the second season of ABC's Big Sky. He is also a co-founder of The Salon, a networking and mentorship initiative for South Asian professionals in film and television.

Career

Acting

Raised in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Chhibber graduated from Emory University and trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City before moving to Los Angeles in 2007.

Ahead of the 2018 pilot season, Vanity Fair identified Chhibber as part of a broader increase in South Asian representation on American television.

His early screen work included appearances on Brothers & Sisters, Chuck, Rules of Engagement, Dollhouse, No Tomorrow, Taken, and Here and Now.

In 2019, Chhibber played Liam Bhatt, a series regular in The Red Line, an eight-episode CBS limited series starring Noah Wyle and executive produced by Ava DuVernay and Greg Berlanti. Coverage of the series described Liam as a gay, Muslim, Indian-American teacher. Reviews identified Liam as a notable part of the ensemble.

Later that year, he had a recurring role in the fourth season of TNT's Animal Kingdom and appeared in episodes of CBS's God Friended Me.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Vinny, Chhibber and American can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Vinny Chhibber” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.