Rakhee Morzaria

Rakhee Morzaria is a Canadian comedian, actor, and writer. Morzaria is most noted for her starring role as Camille Pham in the television sitcom Run the Burbs,^[1] for which she has also been a writer.^[2] She received two Canadian Screen Award nominations for Best Leading Performance in a Comedy Series for her work on Run the Burbs, at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023 and at the 13th Canadian Screen Awards in 2025.^[3]

Career

Morzaria started in improv comedy at The Second City in Toronto and was awarded the highly competitive Bob Curry Fellowship Program.^[4]

She has also had supporting or guest roles in film and television, and has acted on stage in improv comedy shows including Only Human^[5] and Past Dark.^[6] Kelly Bedard stated, "The standout performers are the incredibly versatile Rakhee Morzaria (her diatribe about dieting secrets is sheer brilliance)".^[7]

Morzaria was the creator and star of the web series Rakhee Morzaria's Note to Self, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Original Digital Program or Series, Fiction at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018.^[8] She also received two Canadian Comedy Award nominations, for Best Performance in a Web Series and Best Writing in a Web Series, at the 19th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2019.

Morzaria was a juror for the HollyShorts Film Festival 20^th Anniversary Jury^[9] and in 2022 Morzaria was the host of the Banff World Media Festival (BANFF), presenting the Rockie Awards International Program Competition.^[10]

Morzaria stars as lead Camille Pham on Run the Burbs on CBC. Radheyan Simonpillai of The Globe and Mail stated "Morzaria (who also writes on the series) is a hilarious force of nature.”^[11]

Awards

Morzaria received the 2023 MISAFF Star presented by ACTRA at the 10th annual Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival in Mississauga, Ontario.^[12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2020	My Spy	Tina
2022	Wedding Season	Rupa
2025	Dinner with Friends	Evie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2017	The Beaverton Digital	Mariam	Episode: "Beaverton Russian Times"
2017–2018	Note to Self	Rakhee	13 episodes
2018	The Beaverton	Val Correia	Episode #2.12
2018	Taken	Cable News Reporter	Episode: "Password"
2018	Soul Decision	Jess	Episode: "The Actors"
2018	#Interns	Intern 3	6 episodes
2019	Pete Samcras	Woman 1 / Mom	2 episodes
2019	How to Buy a Baby	Natasha	Episode #2.6
2019–2020	Running with Violet	Anna	6 episodes
2020	What We Do in the Shadows	Karen	Episode: "Collaboration"
2021	TallBoyz	Another Woman	Episode: "All the Focus Is on the Diamonds"
2021	The Parker Andersons	Sheila	Episode: "This Wasn't the Plan"
2021	Private Eyes	Meera Love	Episode: "Dead Air"
2021	Hudson & Rex	MIrai Sidhu	Episode: "Leader of the Pack"
2021	Canadian Reflections	Amira	Episode: "P!GS"
2022–2024	Run the Burbs	Camille Pham	38 episodes; also story editor
2022–present	Summer Memories	Tall Girl (voice)	14 episodes
2023	Shelved	News Anchor	Episode: "Brave New World SF HUX"