Mindy Kaling comes with an estimated net worth of $15 million. She’s 5’4 and weighs 160 pounds. She was born to two Hindu immigrants from India. Her dad, Avu, is an architect and her mom was a gynecologist. Since she was a kid she went by her middle name, Mindy. Kaling graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols in 1997. Kaling matriculated to Dartmouth College and became an associate of the school’s comedy troupe. Kaling graduated in 2001 with a B.A. in Playwriting.
Kaling debuted her play “Matt & Ben” in 2003. Kaling impersonated Ben Affleck in the play, which she co-composed along with her school buddy. Time magazine named her production among the”Top Ten Theatrical Occasions of The entire year.” Kaling was likewise featured in the Comedy Death-Ray CD in 2005 at the same time. In 2005 Mindy Kaling was cast as Kelly Kapoor about the comedy show The Officeand remained until the sitcom finished in 2013. In the year 2012, the American actress was cast as the title character in Fox’s The Mindy Project.
Mindy Kaling has additionally appeared in numerous Hollywood movies.
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Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Television producer, Television Director, Voice Actor
Education
Dartmouth College, Buckingham Browne & Nichols
Nationality
United States of America
Parents
Avu Chokalingam, Swati Roysircar
Siblings
Vijay Chokalingam
Nicknames
Vera Chokalingam , Vera Mindy Chokalingam
Awards
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, Glamour Award for Woman of the Year, Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Humor, Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Pe...
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress: Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series, Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series, TCA Award fo...
Movies
Inside Out, Ocean's Eight, The Night Before, Wreck-It Ralph, No Strings Attached, Despicable Me, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, This Is the End, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Five-Year Engagement, License to Wed, Unaccompanied Minors, Riley's First Date?, A Wrinkle in Time
TV Shows
The Mindy Project, The Office, The Office: Subtle Sexuality, House Poor, The Office: The 3rd Floor
Star Sign
Cancer
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Quote
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Most people want to ask about my size and how brave I am. I'm like, 'I'm not brave, I'm just not really skinny.'"
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I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else, because most of the time everyone is stressed out.
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As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.
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[from Twitter] My heart wants white jeans but my head says no. Kidney says go for it, spleen is ambivalent. Ovaries say no comment, rather rudely actually.
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I want it both ways. David Brent wants to run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds. And I definitely feel that way, too.
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Well, all the guys want to have sex with me all the time. Every day I come to work it's nonstop sexual harassment. They had to have some people from General Electric come down and talk to us about it. There's a lawsuit that's about to happen. But other than that, it's been great. - on being one of only 2 female writers on a staff of 14 for The Office (2005)
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Fact
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Counts Fawlty Towers (1975) among some of her earliest comedic writing influences.
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Is of Indian-American descent.
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Mindy Kaling's mother was an ob-gyn doctor, inspiring many of the story lines in The Mindy Project (2012).
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One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2013).
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Her mother Swati, an ob/gyn physician, once worked in the same Boston hospital with Ronald Krasinski, the internist father of her The Office (2005) (TV) co-star, John Krasinski.
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Is close friends with Web analyst and actor David Harris, who briefly appears in her new comic memoir "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)'.
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Was the first female member of The Office (2005) (TV) writing staff when she began there at age 24.
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Co-wrote the acclaimed play "Matt and Ben", a comedy about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. She played the role of Ben.
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Graduated from Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1997 along with Alison Folland.
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Graduated from Dartmouth College, where she was a member of The Dog Day Players improv troupe, and where she also wrote a comic strip for the campus newspaper called 'Badly Drawn Girl'.
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Her middle name, Mindy, was taken from the TV show, Mork & Mindy (1978) (TV). Her mother was pregnant with her in Nigeria and that was the only American show they got there. When she met Robin Williams and told him the story, he didn't believe her.