Kumail Nanjiani

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Kumail Nanjiani (born February 21, 1978 in Karachi , Pakistan ) is a Pakistani- American actor and stand-up comedian.

life and career

Kumail Nanjiani was born in February 1978 in Karachi , Pakistan . Nanjiani grew up in Karachi and attended the Karachi Grammar School there . One of his classmates there was Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy . At 18 he moved to America and attended Grinnell College in Iowa , where he graduated in 2001. He completed a double degree in computer science and philosophy.

Kumail Nanjiani is related to the Pakistani-Scottish radio host Shereen Nanjiani .

In July 2011, he started a video game podcast with Ali Baker called The Indoor Kids . In August of that year, Baker left the show, and Nanjiani began taping the show with his wife, Emily V. Gordon . In addition to his own podcast, he was a frequent guest on Dan Harmons Podcast Harmontown , in which he played with Harmon Dungeons & Dragons under the name Chris de Burgh . In 2013 he played a cameo role as the delivery boy in the film The Kings of Summer .

In addition to his frequent guest appearances on comedy shows such as Portlandia , he played Pindar Singh, a supporting role in the TNT series Franklin & Bash , and a guest role as a statistician on the HBO series Veep .

Since April 2014 he has played the role of Dinesh on the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley . In 2017 he appeared in The Big Sick . Nanjiani also wrote the script for the film together with Emily V. Gordon , which was nominated for the 2018 Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay. In the same year he was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Web links

Commons : Kumail Nanjiani  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Twitter / TVsJonDore: Happy Birthday Kumail Nanjiani !! . Twitter.com. February 21, 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ Eric Konigsberg: It's Not a Bad Time to Be Funny in the City . In: New York Times , October 30, 2009. Retrieved March 4, 2014. 
  3. ↑ Interview with Comedian Kumail Nanjiani '01 . Grinnell College . September 22, 2010. Archived from the original on March 18, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 22, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grinnell.edu
  4. ↑ a b Lucas Kavner: 'Silicon Valley,' a Comedy Central project and a killer bidet joke: Kumail Nanjiani has it all . In: Washington Post , April 4, 2014. Retrieved April 14, 2014. 
  5. ↑ Shereen Nanjiani : Extended Interview with Kumail Nanjiani . In: Shereen . BBC Radio Scotland . September 1, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
  6. ↑ Kevin Allison : Live From San Francisco! . In: Risk! . February 11, 2013. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
  7. ^ Ali Baker, Kumail Nanjiani: # 1 Steve Agee . In: The Indoor Kids . Nerdist Industries . July 15, 2012. Archived from the original on May 4, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 17, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nerdist.com
  8. ↑ The Kings of Summer Red-Band trailer . Collider.com. May 20, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
  9. ↑ David Sims: Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male . The AV Club . July 23, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
  10. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Nanjiani, Kumail
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani-American actor and stand-up comedian
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Karachi , Pakistan