1. Aasif Mandvi was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2006 to 2017.
28 Facts About Aasif Mandvi
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Aasif Mandvi was born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India, to a Dawoodi Bohra Muslim family.
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Aasif Mandvi's family moved to England, when he was a year old, settling in the West Yorkshire city of Bradford.
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Aasif Mandvi attended the independent Woodhouse Grove School, and he identifies as a "working-class kid from Bradford".
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Aasif Mandvi later moved to New York City, where he began appearing in off-Broadway productions.
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Aasif Mandvi won an Obie Award for his one-man show Sakina's Restaurant.
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Aasif Mandvi played Melchior in On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and appeared in the docudrama Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom at the Culture Project.
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In 2012, Aasif Mandvi starred in Disgraced at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater.
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Aasif Mandvi played the lead role of Amir, a Pakistani- American lawyer struggling with his identity and Islam in the drama by Ayad Akhtar.
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Aasif Mandvi was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for his performance.
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Aasif Mandvi made his television debut as a doorman at the Miami Biltmore Hotel in the episode "Line of Fire" of the series Miami Vice.
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Aasif Mandvi was hired immediately and appeared on the show the same day.
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Aasif Mandvi often appears in segments satirizing and commenting on Islamic, Middle-Eastern, and South-Asian-related issues.
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In October 2013, during a segment on The Daily Show, Aasif Mandvi interviewed Don Yelton of the North Carolina Republican Party office.
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Aasif Mandvi was the lead actor, co-writer and producer of the web series Halal in the Family, which premiered on Funny or Die in 2015.
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In 2016, Aasif Mandvi joined the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously as one of its celebrity correspondents.
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In 2019, Aasif Mandvi was cast in the Robert and Michelle King supernatural drama series Evil on CBS as Ben Shakir, a carpenter who works as a technical expert, equipment handler and debunker of supernatural phenomena.
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Aasif Mandvi played minor roles in the films The Siege and Die Hard with a Vengeance as well as the title role in Merchant Ivory Productions' film The Mystic Masseur.
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Aasif Mandvi was in commercials by Domino's Pizza and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
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Aasif Mandvi played the tone deaf doorman Khan in Music and Lyrics.
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Aasif Mandvi played a dentist alongside Ricky Gervais in the 2008 romantic comedy Ghost Town, as well as office employee Bob Spaulding in The Proposal, starring Sandra Bullock.
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Today's Special, which Aasif Mandvi co-wrote with Jonathan Bines, premiered at the London Film Festival in October 2009 and New York's Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival on 11 November 2009.
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Aasif Mandvi appeared in It's Kind of a Funny Story, a coming-of-age film written and directed by Anna Boden with Ryan Fleck, adapted from the 2006 novel by Ned Vizzini.
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Aasif Mandvi co-starred as a Guantanamo captive in the film The Response, a script based on the transcripts of Combatant Status Review Tribunals convened in Guantanamo in 2004.
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Aasif Mandvi played the role of Mr Chetty in the 2013 comedy The Internship and portrayed Ash Vasudevan in the 2014 film Million Dollar Arm.
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On 27 August 2017, Aasif Mandvi married his girlfriend of three years, Shaifali Puri, an author and humanitarian, at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA.
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Aasif Mandvi is involved with disaster-relief organizations such as the charity initiative Relief 4 Pakistan, which assists in flood relief in Pakistan.
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Aasif Mandvi is a supporter of the Endometriosis Foundation of America.