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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 2, 1978
Place of Birth
Karachi, Pakistan
Also Known As
- Kumail Ali Nanjiani
- 쿠마일 난지아니
- Κουμάιλ Ναντζιάνι
- 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
- کمیل نانجیانی
Kumail Nanjiani
2.6 Popularity
Biography
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
0.0
Peyton
The Breadwinner
2026
0.0
Parker Harrison
The Screener
2026
6.5
Self
Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts
2025
5.1
Trooper Nash
Ella McCay
2025
10.0
Mr. Rivers
Driver's Ed
2025
0.0
Is / Was \ Will
2025
6.1
Smelting Refinery Guard
Destroy All Neighbors
2024
10.0
Self
Grave Conversations
2024
8.2
Xander Harkness
Fallout
2024
6.5
Nadeem
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024
Credits
The Breadwinner
as Peyton
2026
0.0
The Screener
as Parker Harrison
2026
0.0
Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts
as Self
2025
6.5
Ella McCay
as Trooper Nash
2025
5.1
Driver's Ed
as Mr. Rivers
2025
10.0
Is / Was \ Will
2025
0.0
Destroy All Neighbors
as Smelting Refinery Guard
2024
6.1
Grave Conversations
as Self
2024
10.0
Fallout
as Xander Harkness
2024
8.2
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
as Nadeem
2024
6.5
After Midnight
as Self
2024
5.9
Migration
as Mack Mallard (voice)
2023
7.4
Krapopolis
as Spartan Army Leader (voice)
2023
7.2
Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake
as Prismo (voice)
2023
8.7
Dr Phil LIVE!
as Self
2023
10.0
Project Greenlight
as Self
2023
0.0
Attack of the Doc!
as Self
2023
5.0
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
5.8
History of the World: Part II
2023
5.6
Poker Face
as Joseph 'Gator Joe' Pilson
2023
7.5
Welcome to Chippendales
as Somen 'Steve' Banerjee
2022
6.3
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
5.6
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
as Self - Haja Estree
2022
6.8
Bee and PuppyCat
as Howell (voice)
2022
8.4
Obi-Wan Kenobi
as Haja Estree
2022
7.0
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
as Vik (voice)
2022
7.1
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals
as Self - Kingo
2022
7.1
Murderville
as Kumail Nanjiani
2022
6.4
Eternals
as Kingo
2021
6.8
A Night at the Academy Museum
as Self
2021
7.0
Only Murders in the Building
as Rudy Thurber
2021
8.5
What If...?
as Kingo (voice)
2021
8.1
Roll Up Your Sleeves
as Self
2021
7.5
Death to 2020
as Bark Multiverse
2020
6.5
The Lovebirds
as Jibran
2020
6.1
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
as Self
2020
8.6
Reunited Apart
as Self
2020
5.5
Dolittle
as Plimpton (voice)
2020
6.6
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
as Self
2019
7.1
Bless the Harts
as Jesus (voice)
2019
6.6
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik
as Self
2019
6.9
The Boys
as Kumail Nanjiani (uncredited)
2019
8.4
Stuber
as Stu Prasad
2019
6.6
Men in Black: International
as Pawny (voice)
2019
5.9
The Twilight Zone
as Samir Wassan
2019
6.7
It Started As a Joke
as Self
2019
4.8
Duck Butter
as Jake
2018
5.4
Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity
as Self
2018
5.1
🎬
Lie Detector
as Self
2018
5.5
Poop Talk
as Self
2018
4.5
Big Mouth
as himself (voice)
2017
7.6
The Lego Ninjago Movie
as Jay (voice)
2017
6.5
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
as Perry
2017
5.3
The Big Sick
as Kumail Nanjiani
2017
7.3
Fist Fight
as Officer Mehar
2017
6.1
The Late Bloomer
as Rich
2016
5.4
Brother Nature
as Riggleman
2016
5.1
HarmonQuest
as Eddie Lizzard
2016
7.8
HarmonQuest
as Eddie Lizard
2016
7.8
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
as Keanu
2016
6.1
Central Intelligence
as Jared the Airport Security Guard
2016
6.4
Chelsea
as Self
2016
5.1
Hello, My Name Is Doris
as Nasir
2015
6.4
Hell and Back
as Dave the Demon (voice)
2015
5.3
Addicted to Fresno
as Damon
2015
5.2
The Grinder
as Prosecutor Leonard
2015
6.7
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
Taskmaster
as Self
2015
8.2
Flock of Dudes
as Ro
2015
5.7
Major Lazer
as Thor (voice)
2015
6.6
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
2015
5.3
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2015
5.3
Hot Ones
as Self
2015
7.2
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
as Brad Syed
2015
5.2
Misery Loves Comedy
as Self
2015
6.0
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
as Cute-ling Mayor (voice)
2014
7.2
Garfunkel and Oates
as Jordan
2014
6.9
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail
as Self
2014
6.0
Sex Tape
as Punit
2014
5.4
The Last of the Great Romantics
as George the Counter Guy
2014
0.0
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as Self
2014
7.8
Silicon Valley
as Dinesh Chugtai
2014
8.1
TripTank
as Dick Genie (voice)
2014
5.2
Loaded
as Raza
2014
4.2
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
5.9
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
4.0
Broad City
as Benny Calitri
2014
7.1
Timms Valley
as Arjit Pondicherry
2013
6.2
@midnight with Chris Hardwick
as Self
2013
5.2
Hell Baby
as Cable Guy
2013
5.1
Bad Milo!
as Bobbi
2013
5.7
Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male
as Himself
2013
5.8
Drunk History
as Lakota Chief
2013
6.8
The Jeselnik Offensive
as Self
2013
7.4
The Last Leg
as Self
2013
5.7
The Kings of Summer
as Gary
2013
7.0
The Arrangement
as Alfred Dalton
2013
4.6
Bunk
2012
0.0
Burning Love
as Zakir
2012
7.3
The Eric Andre Show
as Self
2012
7.9
The Five-Year Engagement
as Pakistani Chef
2012
5.9
Veep
as Statistician
2012
7.5
TableTop
as Self - Guest
2012
8.2
Key & Peele
as College Kid #1
2012
7.6
Franklin & Bash
as Pindar Singh
2011
7.2
Portlandia
as Cell Phone Salesman
2011
7.0
Portlandia
as Birthday Loan Officer
2011
7.0
Portlandia
as Human Bandwidth Manager
2011
7.0
Portlandia
as Denim Salesman
2011
7.0
Portlandia
as SoCal Waiter
2011
7.0
Bob's Burgers
as Skip Marooch (voice)
2011
7.8
Bob's Burgers
as Skip (voice)
2011
7.8
Bob's Burgers
as Skip Marooch
2011
7.8
Conan
as Self
2010
7.1
Life As We Know It
as Simon
2010
6.9
Reggie Watts: Why Shit So Crazy?
2010
5.8
The Green Room with Paul Provenza
as Self
2010
7.9
Adventure Time
as Prismo (voice)
2010
8.5
Ugly Americans
as Neilando Patel (voice)
2010
8.2
Archer
as Farooq Ashkani (voice)
2009
8.0
Community
as Lapari
2009
8.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Michael & Michael Have Issues
as Kumail
2009
5.0
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge
2009
7.5
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
5.5
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest Host
2003
5.5
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
as Bees (voice)
2000
7.5
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.3
The X-Files
as Pasha
1993
8.4
The Simpsons
as Theo (voice)
1989
8.0
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self
1988
5.4
Laugh Factory
as Self
1979
0.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
🎬
Any Person, Living Or Dead
N/A
0.0
Thread: An Insidious Tale
N/A
0.0
🎬
Compulsive Liar
as Simon
N/A
0.0
The Wrong Girls
N/A
0.0