Darrell Faria is a Canadian actor, director and comedian.^[1] He is most noted as a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee, receiving nominations for Best Performance in a Program or Series Produced for Digital Media at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for his comedy web series Chai-T,^[2] and Best Host in a Web Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 as host of the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival's livestreamed awards presentation in 2021.^[3]

A native of Mississauga, Ontario, he is a graduate of the film studies program at Ryerson University,^[1] and was an instructor at the Mississauga Youth Theatre.

Chai-T also earned him a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for Best Male Performance in a Web Series at the 16th Canadian Comedy Awards.^[1]

He has appeared in the films White Night,^[4] I Put a Hit on You and Don't Talk to Irene, and has directed the short film Apples and Oranges^[5] and episodes of Bit Playas, True Dating Stories^[6] and TallBoyz.

In 2020, after their planned wedding was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Faria and his fiancée Shannon made an internet comedy video in which they went around to various spots in Toronto to look for a new venue, before deciding to have an officiant marry them on the balcony of their own condo.^[7] The video was set to a self-performed cover of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's 2018 single "Apeshit".^[7]