Kumail Ali Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian and actor.
30 Facts About Kumail Nanjiani
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Kumail Nanjiani is known for his role as Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley and for co-writing and starring in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick.
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Kumail Nanjiani co-hosted the Comedy Central show The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, as well as playing various roles on the comedy series Portlandia.
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Kumail Nanjiani starred as Kingo in the Marvel Studios superhero film Eternals, which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starred as street-level con artist Haja Estree in the Disney+ miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi, and played celebrity scientist Vik in the television series The Boys Presents: Diabolical and The Boys.
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Kumail Nanjiani grew up in Karachi, the first of two sons of a Sindhi Muslim couple Shabana and Aijaz Kumail Nanjiani.
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The BBC radio presenter Shereen Kumail Nanjiani is his second cousin.
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Kumail Nanjiani then moved to Chicago and began performing stand-up comedy at open-mic events.
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In 2007, Kumail Nanjiani wrote and staged an original autobiographical one-man show in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
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Kumail Nanjiani played a delivery man in the 2013 film The Kings of Summer.
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Kumail Nanjiani played the role of Pindar Singh, an agoraphobic fiction nerd working for the title characters.
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Kumail Nanjiani had the recurring roles of Amir Larussa on Newsreaders and Prismo on Adventure Time.
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Kumail Nanjiani voiced Reggie in the video game The Walking Dead: Season Two.
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In July 2014, Kumail Nanjiani hosted a weekly podcast titled The X-Files Files, dedicated to discussion and reminiscences about The X-Files.
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On July 30,2014, Kumail Nanjiani appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor Podcast.
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In 2015, Kumail Nanjiani guest-starred in the Broad City episode "In Heat".
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In July 2015, Kumail Nanjiani provided guest voices on Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero.
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In 2017, Kumail Nanjiani starred in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick, which he wrote with Gordon.
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The film is about their relationship, with Kumail Nanjiani playing himself and Zoe Kazan playing Gordon.
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In 2019, Kumail Nanjiani headlined the first episode of the CBS All Access revival of the anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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In 2020, Kumail Nanjiani lent his voice to Plimpton, an ostrich, in the adventure comedy film Dolittle.
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Kumail Nanjiani wrote for and produced the Apple TV+ anthology series Little America, which premiered in January 2020.
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Kumail Nanjiani starred with Issa Rae in the comedy-chase film The Lovebirds, directed by Michael Showalter, produced by Paramount Pictures, and released by Netflix in May 2020.
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Kumail Nanjiani starred in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals, as Kingo, which was released on November 5,2021.
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Kumail Nanjiani received widespread attention and went viral after sharing pictures of his body transformation for the shooting of Eternals in 2019.
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In March 2021, Kumail Nanjiani was announced as cast in an upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series for Disney+.
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In February 2020, Kumail Nanjiani signed on to star in The Independent, a political thriller to be directed by Amy Rice, though he ultimately dropped out of the role.
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In 2022, Kumail Nanjiani starred in the Hulu miniseries Welcome to Chippendales in the lead role of Somen Banerjee, founder of the Chippendales dance troupe.
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On March 24,2023 it was confirmed that Kumail Nanjiani had joined the cast of the upcoming untitled Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel.
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In 2007, Nanjiani married author, producer, and former couples and family therapist Emily V Gordon at Chicago City Hall.
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Kumail Nanjiani was the producer of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail.