Ajay Friese

Ajay Friese (Ajay Parikh-Friese) is an American/Canadian actor and musician. He was a series regular during all three seasons of the Netflix sci-fi drama Lost in Space (2018), and has held recurring roles on four other Netflix Original Series, including Riverdale (2017) and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016). His debut in film came in 2019 as a lead in the critically acclaimed Riot Girls (2019) (from the executive producer of Insidious (2010)). He is cast as the lead in the upcoming crime/mystery feature film Coming Soon, from the producer of The Witch (2015), and is also set to play Deshad in the upcoming Apple+ film The Beanie Bubble, produced by Ron Howard and starring Elizabeth Banks and Zach Galifianakis. Friese's acting career began in live theatre, with more than a dozen credits including Oliver Twist in Oliver! and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. While thrilled to have acted with several professional theatre and opera companies, his role as The Phantom in his hi