Kumail Nanjiani
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
Credits
- 2024 · Destroy All Neighbors as Smelting Refinery Guard
- 2024 · Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire as Nadeem Razmaadi
- 2023 · Migration as Mack Mallard (voice)
- 2023 · Krapopolis as Spartan Army Leader (voice)
- 2023 · Project Greenlight as Self
- 2023 · Attack of the Doc! as Self
- 2023 · Money Shot: The Pornhub Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2023 · History of the World: Part II as
- 2022 · Welcome to Chippendales as Somen 'Steve' Banerjee
- 2022 · The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
- 2022 · Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Haja Estree
- 2022 · Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space as Howell (voice)
- 2022 · Obi-Wan Kenobi as Haja Estree
- 2022 · The Boys Presents: Diabolical as Vik (voice)
- 2022 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals as Self - Kingo
- 2022 · Murderville as Kumail Nanjiani
- 2021 · Eternals as Kingo
- 2021 · A Night at the Academy Museum as Self
- 2021 · Ultra City Smiths as Arjit Pondicherry
- 2021 · Only Murders in the Building as Rudy Thurber
- 2021 · Roll Up Your Sleeves as Self
- 2020 · Death to 2020 as Bark Multiverse
- 2020 · The Lovebirds as Jibran
- 2020 · Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 as Self
- 2020 · Reunited Apart as Self
- 2020 · Dolittle as Plimpton (voice)
- 2019 · Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee as Self
- 2019 · Bless the Harts as Jesus (voice)
- 2019 · Bless the Harts as Jesus Christ (voice)
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2019 · Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik as Self
- 2019 · The Boys as Kumail Nanjiani (uncredited)
- 2019 · Stuber as Stu
- 2019 · Men in Black: International as Pawny (voice)
- 2019 · The Twilight Zone as Samir Wassan
- 2019 · It Started As a Joke as Self
- 2018 · Julia Louis-Dreyfus: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize as Self
- 2018 · Duck Butter as Jake
- 2018 · Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity as Self
- 2018 · Lie Detector as Self
- 2018 · Poop Talk as Self
- 2017 · Big Mouth as himself (voice)
- 2017 · The Lego Ninjago Movie as Jay (voice)
- 2017 · A Happening of Monumental Proportions as Perry
- 2017 · The Big Sick as Kumail Nanjiani
- 2017 · Fist Fight as Officer Mehar
- 2016 · The Late Bloomer as Rich
- 2016 · Brother Nature as Riggleman
- 2016 · HarmonQuest as Eddie Lizzard
- 2016 · HarmonQuest as Eddie Lizard
- 2016 · Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates as Keanu
- 2016 · Central Intelligence as Jared the Airport Security Guard
- 2016 · Chelsea as Self
- 2015 · Hello, My Name Is Doris as Nasir
- 2015 · Hell & Back as Dave the Demon (voice)
- 2015 · Addicted to Fresno as Damon
- 2015 · The Grinder as Prosecutor Leonard
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · Flock of Dudes as Ro
- 2015 · Major Lazer as Thor (voice)
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
- 2015 · Hot Ones as Self
- 2015 · Hot Tub Time Machine 2 as Brad
- 2015 · Misery Loves Comedy as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero as Cute-ling Mayor (voice)
- 2014 · Bee and PuppyCat as Howell (voice)
- 2014 · Garfunkel and Oates as Jordan
- 2014 · The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail as Self
- 2014 · Sex Tape as Punit
- 2014 · Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
- 2014 · Silicon Valley as Dinesh Chugtai
- 2014 · TripTank as Dick Genie (voice)
- 2014 · Loaded as Raza
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2014 · Broad City as Benny Calitri
- 2013 · Timms Valley as Arjit Pondicherry
- 2013 · @midnight with Chris Hardwick as Self
- 2013 · Hell Baby as Cable Guy
- 2013 · Bad Milo! as Bobbi
- 2013 · Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male as Himself
- 2013 · Drunk History as Lakota Chief
- 2013 · The Jeselnik Offensive as Self
- 2013 · The Last Leg as Self
- 2013 · The Kings of Summer as Gary
- 2012 · Burning Love as Zakir
- 2012 · The Five-Year Engagement as Pakistani Chef
- 2010 · Life As We Know It as Simon
- 2009 · Michael & Michael Have Issues as Kumail
- Future · Ella McCay as
- Future · Burning Love 2 as Zakir
- 2014 · The Last of the Great Romantics as George the Counter Guy
- 2012 · Bunk as
- Future · Thread: An Insidious Tale as
- 2013 · The Arrangement as Alfred Dalton
- 2012 · The Eric Andre Show as Self
- 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 · Conan as Self
- Future · The Doubtful Guest as
- Future · A Guy Walks Into a Bar as
- 2010 · Reggie Watts: Why Shit So Crazy? as
- 2010 · The Green Room with Paul Provenza as Self
- 2010 · Adventure Time as Prismo (voice)
- 2010 · Ugly Americans as Neilando Patel (voice)
- 2009 · Archer as Farooq Ashkani (voice)
- 2009 · Community as Lapari
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self - Guest
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 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)
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Future · Any Person, Living Or Dead as