Samrat Chakrabarti is a British-American film actor and musician of Indian descent.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.
Chakrabarti appeared in the 2004 Spike Lee film She Hate Me as well as such films as Manish Acharya's Loins of Punjab Presents, Bombay Summer, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee and Stray Dolls.
Chakrabarti has also appeared in television productions, including Rescue Me with Denis Leary, Conviction, Law & Order, The Sopranos and FX's Damages.
In 2025, he attended the world premiere of his zombie film Didn't Die at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Samrat Chakrabarti is also an established international musician. In 1994, he founded Brandeis University's award-winning all male a cappella group, VoiceMale, for which he continues to contribute arrangements and original compositions, including "Please Don't Go," which appears on the album Suit Up and arrangements for the national a cappella compilation Voices Only 2009. He won a U.S. CARA for Best Original Pop/Rock Song for his composition "What's It all About."
He is a former member of the a cappella group Five O' Clock Shadow. He was also a part of the group The Hyannis Sound. In 1998, Chakrabarti produced an untitled album for his musical group, JYDE, and composed the song "Startving."
He wrote the music and co-wrote the book and lyrics for the 2012 musical Bumbug the Musical.
Chakrabarti has also composed the theme song "Dhol Beat" for Loins of Punjab, and Sundaram Tagore's Natvar Bhavsar: Poetics of Color.