Vas Saranga

Acting

Vas Saranga

Place of birth

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

25 titles

Vas Saranga is a Canadian film and television actor, editor, writer and director, best known for his leading role as Reese in the live-action animation hybrid "Mudpit". Already a filmmaker of and an actor in several student short films during high school, he later attended York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Known for

Mayday poster
8.2

Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

Mayday

2003

The Strain poster
7.5

A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself.

The Strain

2014

Orphan Black poster
7.8

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.

Orphan Black

2013

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent poster
7.5

An elite squad of detectives investigate high-profile crime and corruption in metro Toronto.

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent

2024

I Will Find You poster
8.2

Wrongfully imprisoned for murdering his own son, a father sets out on a desperate rescue mission after learning the boy may still be alive.

I Will Find You

2026

Transplant poster
7.5

Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning a coveted residency in the Emergency Department of one of the best hospitals in Toronto, York Memorial.

Transplant

2020

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Firestarter poster
5.4

For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.

Firestarter

2022

The Clue to Love poster
6.0

Ambitious journalist Audrey Harper heads to Hope Cove to write an article on the town’s local newspaper – if she does well, she’s up for a big promotion. While there, she meets the charming and handsome Editor in Chief Morgan Cooper, who helps her as she uncovers the true identity of the paper’s beloved love advice columnist Ask Aunt Hope, famous in the town for healing broken hearts.

The Clue to Love

2021

Baking All the Way poster
5.4

When Julia Wilson, an accomplished pastry chef from Chicago, heads to a small town bakery famous for their gingerbread to complete her Christmas cookbook curated with recipes from across the country, she finds herself at odds with Kris Thompson, the bakery's charming but private owner, who is ambivalent about sharing his secret recipe.

Baking All the Way

2022

Mistletoe Match poster
5.5

This Christmas, Olivia Hayes goes undercover to provide her readers with an in-depth (and cynical!) look at the hugely successful annual Secret Santa for Singles event. There, she meets single dad and handsome widower Thomas who is just as skeptical about the programme as she is. Sparks soon fly, but with a once in a lifetime promotion on the line, will she risk losing it all for the romance she never saw coming?

Mistletoe Match

2022

A Match for the Prince poster
5.8

An acclaimed medieval romance novelist is hired to be a matchmaker for a real-life prince in a desperate attempt to find true love before the fixed royal wedding date. But as their quest draws cues from romance novel clichés, tropes start to become real, and they must decide whether to become the characters in their own fanciful love story or bow to tradition.

A Match for the Prince

2022

The Heiress and the Handyman poster
6.6

After losing her fortune, an heiress moves to a rural farm where she mistakes her handsome neighbour for the handyman. To live up to her family's legacy, he helps her compete at the county fair.

The Heiress and the Handyman

2024

Stealing School poster
5.3

April Chen, a Chinese-Canadian tech prodigy, is accused of plagiarism by an unrelenting teaching assistant and must fight to prove her innocence in a secret trial held before an academic tribunal.

Stealing School

2020

Doubles poster
NR

In small-town Trinidad, Dhani is a dissatisfied man in his early 20s. He hangs out at bars with his high rolling friends, but he doesn’t belong. Dhani always leaves the party early so that he can work the nightshift with his feisty mother, Sumintra selling “Doubles” (the famous Trinidadian street-food). The two share the same dream of opening their very own brick-and- mortar restaurant. After getting humiliated by a girl and Sumintra getting robbed at knife point, Dhani has lost his patience. His land-developing friend, Philip, offers hundreds of thousands of dollars for their land. But, it’s Ragbir, Dhani's estranged father, a successful chef in Toronto, who owns the property. Against Sumintra’s wishes, Dhani decides to go to Toronto to confront Ragbir and get the land signed over to them.

Doubles

2023

2010s · 5 titles

Series credits

Mayday poster
8.2

Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

Mayday

2003

The Strain poster
7.5

A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself.

The Strain

2014

Orphan Black poster
7.8

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.

Orphan Black

2013

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent poster
7.5

An elite squad of detectives investigate high-profile crime and corruption in metro Toronto.

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent

2024

I Will Find You poster
8.2

Wrongfully imprisoned for murdering his own son, a father sets out on a desperate rescue mission after learning the boy may still be alive.

I Will Find You

2026

Transplant poster
7.5

Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning a coveted residency in the Emergency Department of one of the best hospitals in Toronto, York Memorial.

Transplant

2020

Salvation poster
6.6

An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.

Salvation

2017

Save Me poster
NR

Save Me drops us into random lives, mid-sentence. We get to know people through storylines that unravel with humour and pathos and a built-in ticking time bomb - that one of them at some point will be blindsided by a medical emergency. And all of it is rooted in the on-going stories of our regular cast of EMTs who come to the rescue.

Save Me

2017

Mudpit poster
NR

Four teens who are in a band called Mudpit decide to compete in a contest where the prize is a recording contract. They are drawn into a world that is part animated, part reality.

Mudpit

2012