Rajjiv Gidwani

Rizwan Manji plays Rajiv Gidwani, the assistant manager of the Mid America Novelties call center in India, who dreams of someday taking over as manager in order to move out of his parents’ house and get married. He is desperate for Todd (Ben Rappaport) to either succeed quickly or fail and go home, so he can replace him as the manager of the call center.

Prior to "Outsourced," he was cast as a series regular in the ABC pilot "Fourplay" from executive producers David Kohan and Max Mutchnick ("Will & Grace"). Recently Manji has been seen on "Glee," "How I Met Your Mother," and "Hawthorne," as well as recurring on "FlashForward," "Three Rivers," and "Better off Ted." Manji also recurred as Ahman on the final season of "24," though he is probably best known for playing the cantankerous butler, Rami, on the series "Privileged."

His film credits include supporting roles in "Charlie Wilson’s War," "Transformers," and the upcoming "Morning Glory."

Manji was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and was raised in Calgary, Alberta where he attended Crescent Heights High School. His ancestry is from a small village in Gujarat, India, however both his parents were raised and met in Tanzania, East Africa. Manji graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. He currently makes Studio City, Calif., his home.