Rakhee Morzaria

Rakhee Morzaria is a South Asian 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 a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performer, Comedy at the 13th Canadian Screen Awards in 2025 for her work on the series ^[3] and at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023 for her work on the series.

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

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"