Kumail Nanjiani


    Starbirth:
    February 21, 1978
Birthplace:
Karachi, Pakistan
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Overview

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.


MOVIECHARACTERYEAR
Destroy All Neighbors Smelting Refinery Guard 2024
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Nadeem Razmaadi 2024
Migration Mack Mallard (voice) 2023
Attack of the Doc! 2023
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 2023
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return Self - Haja Estree 2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals Self - Kingo 2022
Eternals Kingo 2021
A Night at the Academy Museum Self 2021
Roll Up Your Sleeves Self 2021
Death to 2020 Bark Multiverse 2020
The Lovebirds Jibran 2020
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 Self 2020
Dolittle Plimpton (voice) 2020
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee Self 2019
Stuber Stu 2019
Men in Black: International Pawny (voice) 2019
It Started As a Joke Self 2019
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize Self 2018
Duck Butter Jake 2018
Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity Self 2018
Poop Talk Self 2018
The Lego Ninjago Movie Jay (voice) 2017
A Happening of Monumental Proportions Perry 2017
The Big Sick Kumail Nanjiani 2017
Fist Fight Officer Mehar 2017
The Late Bloomer Rich 2016
Brother Nature Riggleman 2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Keanu 2016
Central Intelligence Jared the Airport Security Guard 2016
Hello, My Name Is Doris Nasir 2015
Hell & Back Dave the Demon (voice) 2015
Addicted to Fresno Damon 2015
Flock of Dudes Ro 2015
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Brad 2015
Misery Loves Comedy Self 2015
The Last of the Great Romantics George the Counter Guy 2014
Sex Tape Punit 2014
Loaded Raza 2014
Timms Valley Arjit Pondicherry 2013
Hell Baby Cable Guy 2013
Bad Milo! Bobbi 2013
Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male Himself 2013
The Kings of Summer Gary 2013
The Arrangement Alfred Dalton 2013
The Five-Year Engagement Pakistani Chef 2012
Life As We Know It Simon 2010
Reggie Watts: Why Shit So Crazy? 2010
The Doubtful Guest
Any Person, Living Or Dead
Thread: An Insidious Tale
A Guy Walks Into a Bar
Ella McCay
SHOWCHARACTERYEAR
Chelsea Self <mt>
Community Lapari <mt>
Franklin & Bash Pindar Singh <mt>
Bunk <blank> <mt>
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail Self <mt>
The Green Room with Paul Provenza Self <mt>
Silicon Valley Dinesh Chugtai <mt>
HarmonQuest Eddie Lizzard <mt>
Saturday Night Live Self - Host <mt>
The Twilight Zone Samir Wassan <mt>
Portlandia SoCal Waiter <mt>
Ultra City Smiths Arjit Pondicherry <mt>
The View Self <mt>
Drunk History Lakota Chief <mt>
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Self <mt>
The X-Files Pasha <mt>
Hot Ones Self <mt>
Off Camera with Sam Jones Self <mt>
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Self <mt>
Adventure Time Prismo (voice) <mt>
Garfunkel and Oates Jordan <mt>
Conan Self <mt>
The Late Late Show with James Corden Self <mt>
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Self <mt>
Bless the Harts Jesus (voice) <mt>
Burning Love Zakir <mt>
Welcome to Chippendales Somen 'Steve' Banerjee <mt>
Ugly Americans Neilando Patel (voice) <mt>
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Self - Guest <mt>
The Ellen DeGeneres Show Self - Guest <mt>
Big Mouth himself (voice) <mt>
LIVE with Kelly and Mark <blank> <mt>
Late Night with Seth Meyers Self <mt>
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Self <mt>
Murderville Kumail Nanjiani <mt>
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero Cute-ling Mayor (voice) <mt>
The Boys Presents: Diabolical Vik (voice) <mt>
The Simpsons Theo (voice) <mt>
Bob's Burgers Skip (voice) <mt>
Bob's Burgers Skip Marooch (voice) <mt>
Major Lazer Thor (voice) <mt>
Bee and PuppyCat Howell (voice) <mt>
RuPaul's Drag Race Self - Judge <mt>
Veep Statistician <mt>
The View Self - Guest <mt>
The Jeselnik Offensive Self <mt>
Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik Self <mt>
HarmonQuest Eddie Lizard <mt>
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert <blank> <mt>
Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space Howell (voice) <mt>
Reunited Apart Self <mt>
History of the World: Part II <blank> <mt>
Saturday Night Live Self - Cameo (uncredited) <mt>
Project Greenlight Self <mt>
The Eric Andre Show Self <mt>
Broad City Benny Calitri <mt>
Portlandia Cell Phone Salesman <mt>
Portlandia Birthday Loan Officer <mt>
Portlandia Human Bandwidth Manager <mt>
The Late Late Show with James Corden Self - Guest <mt>
Portlandia Denim Salesman <mt>
Obi-Wan Kenobi Haja Estree <mt>
The Jennifer Hudson Show Self <mt>
TripTank Dick Genie (voice) <mt>
The Kelly Clarkson Show <blank> <mt>
The Boys Kumail Nanjiani (uncredited) <mt>
@midnight with Chris Hardwick Self <mt>
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Self <mt>
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Self - Guest <mt>
Krapopolis Spartan Army Leader (voice) <mt>
Bless the Harts Jesus Christ (voice) <mt>
Archer Farooq Ashkani (voice) <mt>
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