Mindy Kaling has received numerous accolades for her work, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for six Primetime Emmy Awards.
33 Facts About Mindy Kaling
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Mindy Kaling first gained recognition starring as Kelly Kapoor in the NBC sitcom The Office, for which she served as a writer, executive producer, and director.
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Mindy Kaling had roles in comedy films, such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, No Strings Attached, The Five-Year Engagement, The Night Before, A Wrinkle in Time and Ocean's 8, and Late Night, the last of which she wrote and produced.
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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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Mindy Kaling's parents are from India and met while working at the same hospital in Nigeria.
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Mindy Kaling graduated from Dartmouth College in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in playwriting.
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Mindy Kaling was a classics major for much of college and studied Latin, a subject she had been learning since the seventh grade.
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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 as well as with Craig Robinson before he was on The Office.
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Mindy Kaling wrote a blog, Things I've Bought That I Love, which reemerged on her website on September 29,2011.
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Mindy Kaling took on the role of character 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's contract was set to expire at the end of Season 7.
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Mindy Kaling left The Office after the ninth-season episode "New Guys".
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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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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 ordered 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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In February 2021, HBO Max announced they had ordered the adult-oriented Scooby-Doo spin-off series Velma, with Mindy Kaling executive producing as well as voicing the titular character.
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Mindy Kaling is set to co-write the third installment in the Legally Blonde series with Dan Goor.
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Mindy Kaling is committed to re-team with Dan Goor to write and star alongside Priyanka Chopra in a comedy about an Indian-American wedding under Universal.
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Mindy Kaling has two children: a daughter, Katherine, born in December 2017, and a son, Spencer, born in September 2020; she has kept the paternity of her children private.
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In 2012, Mindy Kaling was included in the Time 100 list of influential people.
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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.