Early Life and Education
Chandrasekhar was born in Des Plaines, Illinois, the son of physicians, who are both of Hindu Indian origin and originally from India. Jay is the cousin of actor Sendhil Ramamurthy, who played the role of Mohinder Suresh in the NBC superpowers drama Heroes.
He attended high school at Lake Forest Academy. He graduated from Colgate University in New York, where he was a part of the comedy troupe Charred Goosebeak and a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
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