Kumail Nanjiani
Kumail Ali Nanjiani (born May 2, 1978) is a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, and screenwriter. He is primarily known for his role as Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley (2014–2019) and for co-writing and starring in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick (2017). For co-writing the latter with his wife, Emily V. Gordon, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Nanjiani has also voiced Prismo on the animated series Adventure Time and starred in the TNT series Franklin & Bash and the Adult Swim series Newsreaders. He also 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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- Born:
- Feb 21, 1978 In Karachi, Pakistan
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 88
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Doubtful Guest
- Latest Project:
- Series Welcome to Chippendales 2022-11-22
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Doubtful Guest | 2024 | |
| Movie | Any Person, Living Or Dead | 2024 | |
| Movie | The True American | Rais Bhuiyan | 2024 |
| Series | Murderville | Unknown | 2022-02-03 |
| Movie | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals | Self - Kingo | 2022-02-16 |
| Movie | Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return | Self - Haja Estree | 2022-09-08 |
| Series | Obi-Wan Kenobi | Haja Estree | 2022-05-26 |
| Series | The Boys Presents: Diabolical | Vik (voice) | 2022-03-03 |
| Series | Welcome to Chippendales | Somen "Steve" Banerjee | 2022-11-22 |
| Series | Ultra City Smiths | Arjit Pondicherry | 2021-09-13 |
| Movie | A Night at the Academy Museum | Himself | 2021-10-12 |
| Movie | Eternals | Kingo | 2021-11-03 |
| Movie | Roll Up Your Sleeves | Self | 2021-04-18 |
| Movie | Dolittle | Plimpton (voice) | 2020-01-02 |
| Movie | Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 | Himself - 'Animal Crossing' Segment (voice) | 2020-05-16 |
| Movie | Death to 2020 | Bark Multiverse | 2020-12-27 |
| Movie | The Lovebirds | Jibran | 2020-05-22 |
| Series | The Twilight Zone | Samir Wassan | 2019-04-01 |
| Movie | It Started As a Joke | Himself | 2019-03-10 |
| Movie | Stuber | Stu | 2019-07-11 |
| Series | Bless the Harts | Jesus (voice) | 2019-09-29 |
| Movie | Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee | Self | 2019-12-20 |
| Movie | Men in Black: International | Pawny (voice) | 2019-06-12 |
| Movie | Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity | Himself | 2018-04-06 |
| Movie | Julia Louis-Dreyfus: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize | Self | 2018-11-19 |
| Movie | Duck Butter | Jake | 2018-04-27 |
| Movie | Fist Fight | Officer Mehar | 2017-02-16 |
| Movie | A Happening of Monumental Proportions | Perry | 2017-05-05 |
| Movie | The Lego Ninjago Movie | Jay (voice) | 2017-09-21 |
| Movie | The Big Sick | Kumail Nanjiani | 2017-03-30 |
| Series | Big Mouth | himself (voice) | 2017-09-29 |
| Series | Chelsea | Self | 2016-05-11 |
| Movie | Brother Nature | Riggleman | 2016-09-09 |
| Movie | Central Intelligence | Jared the Airport Security Guard | 2016-06-15 |
| Movie | The Late Bloomer | Rich | 2016-10-07 |
| Series | HarmonQuest | Eddie Lizzard | 2016-07-14 |
| Movie | Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates | Keanu | 2016-07-07 |
| Series | Hot Ones | Self | 2015-03-12 |
| Series | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self | 2015-03-23 |
| Movie | Misery Loves Comedy | Self | 2015-01-23 |
| Movie | Hot Tub Time Machine 2 | Brad | 2015-02-20 |
| Series | Major Lazer | Thor (voice) | 2015-04-17 |
| Movie | Addicted to Fresno | Damon | 2015-10-02 |
| Movie | Hell & Back | Dave the Demon (voice) | 2015-10-02 |
| Movie | Hello, My Name Is Doris | Nasir | 2015-11-27 |
| Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
| Series | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self | 2015-08-02 |
| Movie | Flock of Dudes | Ro | 2015-06-13 |
| Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Unknown | 2014-02-25 |
| Series | Off Camera with Sam Jones | Self | 2014-02-06 |
| Series | Silicon Valley | Dinesh Chugtai | 2014-04-06 |
| Series | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest | 2014-02-17 |
| Movie | Loaded | Raza | 2014-03-08 |
| Series | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | Self | 2014-04-27 |
| Series | Garfunkel and Oates | Jordan | 2014-08-07 |
| Series | Bee and PuppyCat | Howell (voice) | 2014-11-06 |
| Series | Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero | Cute-ling Mayor (voice) | 2014-12-05 |
| Movie | The Last of the Great Romantics | George the Counter Guy | 2014-07-17 |
| Movie | Sex Tape | Punit | 2014-07-17 |
| Series | The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail | Himself | 2014-07-24 |
| Movie | The Arrangement | Alfred Dalton | 2013-01-01 |
| Movie | The Kings of Summer | Gary | 2013-01-19 |
| Movie | Bad Milo! | Bobbi | 2013-08-28 |
| Movie | Timms Valley | Arjit Pondicherry | 2013-12-31 |
| Movie | Hell Baby | Cable Guy | 2013-09-06 |
| Movie | Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male | Himself | 2013-07-21 |
| Series | Drunk History | Lakota Chief | 2013-07-09 |
| Series | Bunk | Unknown | 2012-06-08 |
| Series | TableTop | Unknown | 2012-04-02 |
| Series | Burning Love | Zakir | 2012-06-01 |
| Movie | The Five-Year Engagement | Pakistani Chef | 2012-04-27 |
| Series | Franklin & Bash | Pindar Singh | 2011-06-01 |
| Series | Portlandia | Various | 2011-01-21 |
| Series | Bob's Burgers | Skip Marooch (voice) | 2011-01-09 |
| Series | Ugly Americans | Neilando Patel (voice) | 2010-03-17 |
| Movie | Reggie Watts: Why Shit So Crazy? | 2010-07-01 | |
| Series | Conan | Self | 2010-11-08 |
| Movie | Life As We Know It | Simon | 2010-10-02 |
| Series | The Green Room with Paul Provenza | Himself | 2010-06-10 |
| Series | Adventure Time | Prismo | 2010-04-05 |
| Series | Community | Lapari | 2009-09-17 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self | 2003-01-26 |
| Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self - Guest | 2003-09-08 |
| Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
| Series | The X-Files | Pasha | 1993-09-10 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Theo (voice) | 1989-12-17 |
| Series | LIVE with Kelly and Ryan | Unknown | 1988-09-05 |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | 1975-10-11 |