1. Shaun Majumder is best known for his role on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, where he worked from 2003 until 2018.
15 Facts About Shaun Majumder
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Shaun Majumder won a Gemini Award for his work on the series in 2006.
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Shaun Majumder has said that because he was raised by a white mother and around white people, he had no idea he "was anything but white".
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Shaun Majumder was very close to his mother who he says raised them selflessly so that he and his sister were unaware of the extreme poverty in which they lived.
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Shaun Majumder's mother died of a heart attack in 2003.
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Shaun Majumder feels a debt of love to Newfoundland which has influenced him and his work, and has given him a rhythm of appreciation for what he has.
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Shaun Majumder started his entertainment career as an announcer for the YTV game show CLIPS, and soon was hosting the network's popular morning kids show Brain Wash, where he was known as Ed Brainbin.
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Shaun Majumder was a star of Cedric the Entertainer Presents, aired in the United States on the Fox network, and appeared in an NFB documentary on aspiring Canadian comics, The Next Big Thing.
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Shaun Majumder caused some minor controversy when "Raj" posed in the MegaStars group picture during the 2003 Heritage Classic NHL outdoor ice-hockey game.
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In 2006, Shaun Majumder won a Gemini Award for his work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
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Shaun Majumder made a guest appearance on two episodes of the television series 24, playing Hasan Numair.
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Shaun Majumder played Dr Freddy Sahgal in the short-lived Fox TV series Unhitched, which aired in March 2008.
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From 2013 to 2014, Shaun Majumder starred in the documentary TV series Shaun Majumder Manor, which documented his quest to develop the tourism potential in his picturesque hometown of Burlington, Newfoundland.
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On 21 December 2012, Shaun Majumder married American actress Shelby Fenner.
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Shaun Majumder lived in Los Angeles but moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2025.