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Known For

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Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-03-24

Place of Birth

Singapore

Gurmit Singh

Biography

Gurmit Ottawan Singh is a Singaporean actor, comedian and television personality. He was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1994 to 2014. In November 2014, Gurmit announced that he would leave Mediacorp at the end of his full-time television career at Mediacorp - after exactly 20 years. Gurmit shared that he planned to spend more time with his family. A former artiste of Mediacorp, he is best known for his role in Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, for which he won the Asian Television Awards prize for Best Performance by an Actor (Comedy) five times, from 1998 to 2001 and in 2003. From 2004 to 2005, he won the Highly Commended prize.

Known for

The Amazing Race

The Amazing Race

This reality competition sees teams embark on a trek around the world to amazing destinations where they must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical. Only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. Teams who are the farthest behind will gradually be eliminated as the contest progresses, with the first team to arrive at the final destination winning the race and the $1 million prize.

Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd

Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd

The sitcom centres on an eccentric contractor with his trademark yellow boots, curly afro hair and large facial mole. While it carries the traditions of a sitcom, many unusual elements were used such as flashbacks, quick gags and celebrity cameo appearances.

Parental Guidance

Parental Guidance

Parental Guidance is a Singaporean drama produced by local TV station MediaCorp and airs on MediaCorp Channel 5 on Thursdays at 8.30pm starting on 8 February 2007 to 3 May 2007 for a total of 13 episodes.

Best of Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd

Best of Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd

A building contractor navigates the ups and downs of life and work with his eccentric family members and employees.

One Take

One Take

One Take is a Not Safe For TV (NSFTV) mini web series consisting of nine episodes, each done in a single take. It chronicles the coming-of-age story of three Singaporean youths, James, Claire, and Alicia. over a period of ten years.

Sumolah

Sumolah

Ramlee (Afdlin Shauki) is a Malay boy doomer who can't seem to settle job, much to his Mother's (Kartina Aziz) disappointment. Out of a job and out of money, he stumble upon across a sushi challenge by restaurant owner Honda (Patrik Teoh) Hungry and desperate, Ramlee attempts the challenge, and fails. In compensation, Honda lets Ramlee take a job at the restaurant to pay off his due. Ramlee becomes a member of the shop staff, along with Haris (Awie) and Andy (Radhi Khalid). He learns that a part of his obligation is to participate in the Malaysia Sushi Association Amateur Sumo Wrestling Championships held by Japanese sushi restaurant owners.

Baby Boom

Baby Boom

Baby Boom is a Singaporean TV series aired on MediaCorp Channel 8 in 2003.

The Chosen One

The Chosen One

A tale of forbidden love that defies the limitations of existence.

Captive Audience

Captive Audience

Rejected by the music industry, a disenchanted jazzman decides to perform his music to a different audience — animals at the zoo.

Ah Beng VS Liang Po Po

Ah Beng VS Liang Po Po

Ah Beng’s daughter, Xiao Yun, is kidnapped by a human trafficking syndicate. As police investigations hit a dead end, a devastated father teams up with a group of unlikely yet uniquely skilled individuals — including Liang Po Po — to form a makeshift rescue squad. Together, they infiltrate criminal hideouts and navigate a shadowy underworld filled with deception, violence, and moral grey areas, embarking on a pursuit that is both absurd and perilous. This journey is not only a fight against fate, but a desperate, all-out mission to protect family, dignity, and love.

When Ghost Meets Zombie

When Ghost Meets Zombie

An expressionless zombie allows a free-spirited female ghost to possess him so she can use his body to enter a male beauty pageant.

Taxi! Taxi!

Taxi! Taxi!

"Taxi! Taxi!" is a social comedy set in the metropolitan city-state of Singapore, told through the encounters of two characters who are in what is widely perceived as the most sociable profession on the island taxi drivers. Inspired by famed blogger Dr Cai Mingjie's real life accounts as a taxi driver in his bestseller "Diary Of A Taxi Driver: True Stories From Singapore's Most Educated Cabdriver", the movie follows the trials and tribulations of a retrenched microbiology scientist, Professor Chua, as he turns to taxi driving after several failed job attempts. Along the way, he befriends (although they didn't quite start off as friends from the get-go) a veteran taxi driver, Ah Tau. The two men, who appear to be polar opposites of each other in every aspect from educational levels, personalities, attitudes toward life and even the languages that they speak, eventually find themselves interdependent and influencing each other in ways that they probably had never imagined

Just Follow Law

Just Follow Law

A technician and a senior manager swap bodies after an accident and soon experience each other's struggles within a strictly rule-abiding bureaucracy.

Phua Chu Kang The Movie

Phua Chu Kang The Movie

More than a decade after his yellows boots first kicked up big laughs on TV, Singapore's favourite contractor has finally made the big leap to the silver screen. Now based in Kuala Lumpur, Phua Chu Kang and wife Rosie get a visit from Kang's beloved Ah Ma. But even before she unpacks her luggage, Ah Ma disappears. What happened to her? Did she run away? Why? Or was she kidnapped? Kang's desperate search for Ah Ma leads him in an old folks home and its smarmy CEO, Lim Lau Pek, who offers Kang a lucrative contracting job. But first, he has to beat his arch nemesis, Frankie Foo, who is after the same job. Things take a surprising turn at the old folks home when Lim takes an amorous interest in Rosie, then Kang is accused of killing one of the elderly residents. Is Frankie behind this? What is Lim Lau Pek really up to?

Young & Fabulous

Young & Fabulous

The coming-of-age story of a group of teenage friends—Royston, Violet, and Hao Ren—who strive against all challenges and obstacles to pursue their dreams.