Kumail Nanjiani

Kumail Nanjiani

Kumail Ali Nanjiani (/kʊˈmeɪl ˌnɑːndʒiˈɑːni/; Sindhi: ڪميل علي نانجياڻي‎; Urdu: کمیل علی نانجیانی; born May 2, 1978) is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian and actor. He is 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, they were 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. He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role in The Twilight Zone executive produced by Jordan Peele in 2019. 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 and played various roles on the comedy series Portlandia. He also played Kingo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero film Eternals and What If...? Episode What If... Agatha Went to Hollywood?, con artist Haja Estree in the Disney+ miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi and celebrity scientist Vik in the television series The Boys Presents: Diabolical and The Boys. In 2022, he starred in the lead role of the Hulu miniseries Welcome to Chippendales. In 2023, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie category for his work in Welcome to Chippendales. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kumail Nanjiani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Karachi, Pakistan, 1978-05-02

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1		The Doubtful Guest		0
2	2010	Reggie Watts: Why Shit So Crazy?		58
3	2010	Life As We Know It	Simon	69
4	2012	The Five-Year Engagement	Pakistani Chef	59
5	2013	The Arrangement	Alfred Dalton	46
6	2013	The Kings of Summer	Gary	70
7	2013	Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male	Himself	58
8	2013	Bad Milo!	Bobbi	57
9	2013	Hell Baby	Cable Guy	52
10	2013	Timms Valley	Arjit Pondicherry	62
11	2014	Loaded	Raza	42
12	2014	Sex Tape	Punit	54
13	2014	The Last of the Great Romantics	George the Counter Guy	0
14	2015	Misery Loves Comedy	Self	60
15	2015	Hot Tub Time Machine 2	Brad	52
16	2015	Flock of Dudes	Ro	59
17	2015	Hell and Back	Dave the Demon (voice)	52
18	2015	Addicted to Fresno	Damon	52
19	2015	Hello, My Name Is Doris	Nasir	64
20	2016	Central Intelligence	Jared the Airport Security Guard	64
21	2016	Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates	Keanu	61
22	2016	Brother Nature	Riggleman	51
23	2016	The Late Bloomer	Rich	55
24	2017	Fist Fight	Officer Mehar	61
25	2017	The Big Sick	Kumail Nanjiani	73
26	2017	A Happening of Monumental Proportions	Perry	52
27	2017	The Lego Ninjago Movie	Jay (voice)	65
28	2018	Poop Talk	Self	45
29	2018	Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity	Self	51
30	2018	Duck Butter	Jake	54
31	2019	It Started As a Joke	Self	48
32	2019	Men in Black: International	Pawny (voice)	59
33	2019	Stuber	Stu Prasad	66
34	2019	Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee	Self	70
35	2020	Dolittle	Plimpton (voice)	66
36	2020	Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020	Self	86
37	2020	The Lovebirds	Jibran	61
38	2020	Death to 2020	Bark Multiverse	65
39	2021	Roll Up Your Sleeves	Self	75
40	2021	A Night at the Academy Museum	Self	70
41	2021	Eternals	Kingo	68
42	2022	Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals	Self - Kingo	71
43	2022	Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return	Self - Haja Estree	68
44	2023	Money Shot: The Pornhub Story	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	57
45	2023	Attack of the Doc!	Self	50
46	2023	Migration	Mack Mallard (voice)	74
47	2024	Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire	Nadeem	65
48		Thread: An Insidious Tale		0
49		A Guy Walks Into a Bar		0
50	2024	Destroy All Neighbors	Smelting Refinery Guard	63
51	2025	Ella McCay		0
52		Any Person, Living Or Dead		0
53	2025	Is / Was \ Will		0
54		The Wrong Girls		0
55		Driver's Ed		0
56	2025	Conan O'Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor	Self	70
57	2026	The Breadwinner		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	70
2	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
3	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark		56
4	1989	The Simpsons	Theo (voice)	80
5	1993	The X-Files	Pasha	84
6	1997	The View	Self	45
7	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
8	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
9	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self - Guest Host	55
10	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	57
11	2009	RuPaul's Drag Race	Self - Guest Judge	76
12	2009	Michael & Michael Have Issues	Kumail	58
13	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
14	2009	Community	Lapari	80
15	2009	Archer	Farooq Ashkani (voice)	80
16	2010	Ugly Americans	Neilando Patel (voice)	82
17	2010	Adventure Time	Prismo (voice)	85
18	2010	The Green Room with Paul Provenza	Self	79
19	2010	Conan	Self	71
20	2011	Bob's Burgers	Skip Marooch (voice)	78
21	2011	Bob's Burgers	Skip (voice)	78
22	2011	Portlandia	Cell Phone Salesman	69
23	2011	Portlandia	Birthday Loan Officer	69
24	2011	Portlandia	Human Bandwidth Manager	69
25	2011	Portlandia	Denim Salesman	69
26	2011	Portlandia	SoCal Waiter	69
27	2011	Franklin & Bash	Pindar Singh	72
28	2012	Key & Peele	College Kid #1	76
29	2012	TableTop	Self - Guest	82
30	2012	Veep	Statistician	74
31	2012	The Eric Andre Show	Self	79
32	2012	Burning Love	Zakir	73
33	2012	Bunk		0
34	2013	The Last Leg	Self	56
35	2013	The Jeselnik Offensive	Self	72
36	2013	Drunk History	Lakota Chief	68
37	2013	@midnight with Chris Hardwick	Self	52
38	2014	Broad City	Benny Calitri	71
39	2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones	Self	40
40	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self - Guest	59
41	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
42	2014	TripTank	Dick Genie (voice)	52
43	2014	Silicon Valley	Dinesh Chugtai	81
44	2014	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Self	79
45	2014	The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail	Self	60
46	2014	Garfunkel and Oates	Jordan	69
47	2014	Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero	Cute-ling Mayor (voice)	69
48	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
49	2015	Hot Ones	Self	75
50	2015	The Late Late Show with James Corden	Self	53
51	2015	The Late Late Show with James Corden	Self - Guest	53
52	2015	Major Lazer	Thor (voice)	66
53	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
54	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert		64
55	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
56	2015	The Grinder	Prosecutor Leonard	67
57	2016	Chelsea	Self	51
58	2016	HarmonQuest	Eddie Lizzard	78
59	2016	HarmonQuest	Eddie Lizard	78
60	2017	Big Mouth	himself (voice)	77
61	2018	Lie Detector	Self	100
62	2019	The Twilight Zone	Samir Wassan	67
63	2019	The Boys	Kumail Nanjiani (uncredited)	85
64	2019	Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik	Self	72
65	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		65
66	2019	Bless the Harts	Jesus (voice)	67
67	2020	Reunited Apart	Self	55
68	2021	What If...?	Kingo (voice)	81
69	2021	Only Murders in the Building	Rudy Thurber	85
70	2022	Murderville	Kumail Nanjiani	64
71	2022	The Boys Presents: Diabolical	Vik (voice)	72
72	2022	Obi-Wan Kenobi	Haja Estree	71
73	2022	Bee and PuppyCat	Howell (voice)	82
74	2022	The Jennifer Hudson Show	Self	62
75	2022	Welcome to Chippendales	Somen 'Steve' Banerjee	65
76	2023	Poker Face	Joseph 'Gator Joe' Pilson	76
77	2023	History of the World: Part II		57
78	2023	Project Greenlight	Self	0
79	2023	Dr Phil LIVE!	Self	100
80	2023	Krapopolis	Spartan Army Leader (voice)	75
81	2024	After Midnight	Self	59
82	2024	Grave Conversations	Self	0

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