It’s been an especially busy year for Utkarsh Ambudkar, who is in Hulu’s Elizabeth Holmes biopic series “The Dropout,” and also showed up in the films “Marry Me,” “Free Guy” and “Tick, Tick ... Boom!” And then there’s the biggest role of them all, as one of the leads in the freshman hit CBS sitcom “Ghosts,” playing the easygoing husband to a woman who can see ghosts in the rambling old mansion they’ve inherited.
“He is the rare partner who just believes,” said Ambudkar. “It’s like, oh, you see ghosts? Cool. He’s very in love with his wife and invested in her emotional and mental health, and at the same time he’s fascinated with this idea that he gets to live this supernatural dream that sci-fi nerds can only fantasize about, so he’s on board pretty much from the jump.”
The show’s success has upped Ambudkar’s celebrity. “I was running with my son in the neighborhood and someone was like, ‘Are you on ‘Ghosts’? Welcome to the neighborhood!’ And it’s like, I’ve lived here for several years, but thank you?”
