Kumail Nanjiani

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1978-02-21 (46 years old)

Place of Birth Karachi, Pakistan

Also Known As Kumail Ali Nanjiani, 쿠마일 난지아니, Κουμάιλ Ναντζιάνι, Кумэйл Нанджиани, クメイル・ナンジアニ, 库梅尔·南贾尼, Κουμέιλ Ναντζιάνι, 庫梅爾·南賈尼, คูเมล นานจิเอนี

Kumail Nanjiani

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
Destroy All Neighbors

as Smelting Refinery Guard

2024
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

as Nadeem Razmaadi

2023
Migration

as Mack Mallard (voice)

2023
2023
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2023
Krapopolis

as Spartan Army Leader (voice)

2023
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

as Self - Haja Estree

2022
Welcome to Chippendales

as Somen 'Steve' Banerjee

2022
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi

as Haja Estree

2022
Murderville

as Kumail Nanjiani

2021
Eternals

as Kingo

2021
Ultra City Smiths

as Arjit Pondicherry

2021
2020
Death to 2020

as Bark Multiverse

2020
The Lovebirds

as Jibran

2020
Dolittle

as Plimpton (voice)

2020
2019
Stuber

as Stu

2019
2019
Bless the Harts

as Jesus (voice)

2019
Bless the Harts

as Jesus Christ (voice)

2019
The Boys

as Kumail Nanjiani (uncredited)

2019
The Twilight Zone

as Samir Wassan

2018
Duck Butter

as Jake

2018
Poop Talk

as Self

2018
Lie Detector

as Self

2017
The Lego Ninjago Movie

as Jay (voice)

2017
The Big Sick

as Kumail Nanjiani

2017
Fist Fight

as Officer Mehar

2017
Big Mouth

as himself (voice)

2016
2016
Brother Nature

as Riggleman

2016
Central Intelligence

as Jared the Airport Security Guard

2016
HarmonQuest

as Eddie Lizzard

2016
HarmonQuest

as Eddie Lizard

2016
Chelsea

as Self

2015
Hell & Back

as Dave the Demon (voice)

2015
2015
2015
Major Lazer

as Thor (voice)

2015
Hot Ones

as Self

2014
Sex Tape

as Punit

2014
The Last of the Great Romantics

as George the Counter Guy

2014
Loaded

as Raza

2014
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

as Cute-ling Mayor (voice)

2014
Bee and PuppyCat

as Howell (voice)

2014
2014
Silicon Valley

as Dinesh Chugtai

2014
TripTank

as Dick Genie (voice)

2014
Broad City

as Benny Calitri

2013
Timms Valley

as Arjit Pondicherry

2013
Hell Baby

as Cable Guy

2013
Bad Milo!

as Bobbi

2013
The Arrangement

as Alfred Dalton

2013
Drunk History

as Lakota Chief

2012
The Five-Year Engagement

as Pakistani Chef

2012
2012
Burning Love

as Zakir

2012
Veep

as Statistician

2011
Franklin & Bash

as Pindar Singh

2011
Portlandia

as Cell Phone Salesman

2011
Portlandia

as Birthday Loan Officer

2011
Portlandia

as Human Bandwidth Manager

2011
Portlandia

as Denim Salesman

2011
Portlandia

as SoCal Waiter

2011
Bob's Burgers

as Skip Marooch (voice)

2011
Bob's Burgers

as Skip (voice)

2010
2010
Conan

as Self

2010
Adventure Time

as Prismo (voice)

2010
Ugly Americans

as Neilando Patel (voice)

2009
Community

as Lapari

2009
Archer

as Farooq Ashkani (voice)

2009
RuPaul's Drag Race

as Self - Judge

2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show

as Self - Guest

2003
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest Host

1997
The View

as Self

1997
The View

as Self - Guest

1993
The X-Files

as Pasha

1989
The Simpsons

as Theo (voice)

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

Producer

A Guy Walks Into a Bar

as Executive Producer

2023
Project Greenlight

as Executive Producer

2022
Welcome to Chippendales

as Executive Producer

2020
The Lovebirds

as Executive Producer

2020
Little America

as Executive Producer

2017
The Big Sick

as Executive Producer

Writer

Sidekicks

as Screenplay

2017
The Big Sick

as Screenplay