1. Mindy Kaling wrote two memoirs both reaching The New York Times Best Seller list.
32 Facts About Mindy Kaling
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Mindy Kaling received a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop.
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Vera Mindy Chokalingam was born June 24,1979, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to father Avudaiappan Chokalingam and mother Swati Chokalingam.
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Mindy Kaling graduated from Dartmouth in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in playwriting.
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Mindy Kaling has said that she never saw a family like hers on TV, which gave her a dual perspective she uses in her writing.
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Mindy Kaling thinks the "everyone against me" mentality is what she learned as a child of immigrants.
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Mindy Kaling named her Mindy Project character Mindy Lahiri after author Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Mindy Kaling said one of her worst job experiences was as a production assistant for three months on the Crossing Over With John Edward psychic show.
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Mindy Kaling devised her stage name after discovering while doing stand-up comedy that emcees would have trouble pronouncing her last name, Chokalingam, and sometimes made jokes about it.
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Mindy Kaling toured solo and with Craig Robinson, who was later a fellow cast member of The Office.
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Mindy Kaling took on the role of Kelly Kapoor, debuting in the series' second episode, "Diversity Day".
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Mindy Kaling is featured on the CD Comedy Death-Ray and guest-wrote parts of an episode of Saturday Night Live in April 2006.
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Mindy Kaling directed the Season 6 episode "Body Language," which marked her television directorial debut.
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Mindy Kaling starred in the 2009 film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian as a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum tour guide.
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Mindy Kaling left The Office after the ninth-season episode "New Guys", but returned to guest-star in its final episode.
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Mindy Kaling published a third memoir, Nothing Like I Imagined, with Amazon Original Stories in 2020.
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Mindy Kaling made an appearance as Vanetha in The Five-Year Engagement in 2012.
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Also in 2012, Mindy Kaling founded the production company, Mindy Kaling International.
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In March 2017, Mindy Kaling announced that the show's sixth season, which would air starting September 2017, would be the last.
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Mindy Kaling voiced Taffyta Muttonfudge in Disney's animated comedy film Wreck-It Ralph and Disgust in Pixar's 2015 film Inside Out.
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In 2017, NBC created Champions, where Mindy Kaling is a co-creator, writer, and producer.
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Mindy Kaling had a recurring guest role on the show, which premiered March 8,2018, on NBC.
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In 2020, Mindy Kaling created the Netflix series Never Have I Ever with Lang Fisher, a comedy partially based on Mindy Kaling's childhood story growing up in the Boston area.
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CNN and Teen Vogue have described the series as a watershed moment for South Asian representation in Hollywood, and praised Mindy Kaling for breaking South Asian stereotypes.
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Mindy Kaling co-created the Netflix sports comedy Running Point, which premiered in 2025.
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Mindy Kaling has three children: a daughter, born in December 2017, a son, born in September 2020 and a daughter born in February 2024.
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Mindy Kaling has kept the paternity of her children private.
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Mindy Kaling is an adherent of Hinduism and has expressed her desire to give her children a Hindu upbringing.
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In 2012, Mindy Kaling was included in the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.
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In October 2023, Mindy Kaling took to social media to stand alongside Israel.
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Mindy Kaling was recognized by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.
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In March 2023, Mindy Kaling was awarded the 2021 National Medal of Arts from the US president Joe Biden in the White House.