Kumail Nanjiani
Kumail Nanjiani (born February 21, 1978) is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian, film and television actor, and podcast host, best known as main cast member of the television series "Silicon Valley", as well as for providing the voice of Prismo on the animated series "Adventure Time". He also co-hosts the Comedy Central show "The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail", and two podcasts: "The Indoor Kids" and "The X-Files Files". In 2017, Nanjiani starred in "The Big Sick", a semi-autobiographical film that he co-wrote with his wife Emily V. Gordon, loosely based on their own relationship. The film earned the couple a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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- Born:
- Feb 21, 1978 In Karachi, Pakistan
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 59
- First Appeared:
- In the series Michael & Michael Have Issues 2009-07-15
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Breadwinner 2026-03-12
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Breadwinner | 2026-03-12 | |
| Movie | Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | Nadeem | 2024-03-20 |
| Movie | Destroy All Neighbors | Smelting Refinery Guard | 2024-04-26 |
| Movie | Attack of the Doc! | Self | 2023-04-21 |
| Movie | Migration | Mack Mallard (voice) | 2023-12-06 |
| Series | Project Greenlight | Self | 2023-07-13 |
| Movie | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals | Self - Kingo | 2022-02-16 |
| Series | Obi-Wan Kenobi | 2022-05-26 | |
| Series | Welcome to Chippendales | Somen 'Steve' Banerjee | 2022-11-22 |
| Movie | Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return | Self - Haja Estree | 2022-09-07 |
| Movie | Roll Up Your Sleeves | Self | 2021-04-18 |
| Movie | Eternals | Kingo | 2021-11-03 |
| Movie | Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 | Self | 2020-05-16 |
| Movie | Dolittle | Plimpton (voice) | 2020-01-02 |
| Movie | The Lovebirds | Jibran | 2020-05-22 |
| Movie | Death to 2020 | Bark Multiverse | 2020-12-27 |
| Movie | Men in Black: International | Pawny (voice) | 2019-06-12 |
| Movie | Stuber | Stu Prasad | 2019-07-11 |
| Movie | Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee | Self | 2019-12-20 |
| Movie | Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity | Self | 2018-04-06 |
| Movie | Poop Talk | Self | 2018-02-16 |
| Movie | Duck Butter | Jake | 2018-04-27 |
| Movie | Fist Fight | Officer Mehar | 2017-02-16 |
| Movie | The Big Sick | Kumail Nanjiani | 2017-03-30 |
| Movie | A Happening of Monumental Proportions | Perry | 2017-05-05 |
| Movie | The Lego Ninjago Movie | Jay (voice) | 2017-09-21 |
| Movie | Central Intelligence | Jared the Airport Security Guard | 2016-06-16 |
| Series | Chelsea | Himself | 2016-05-11 |
| Movie | Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates | Keanu | 2016-07-07 |
| Series | HarmonQuest | Eddie Lizzard | 2016-07-14 |
| Movie | The Late Bloomer | Rich | 2016-10-07 |
| Movie | Brother Nature | Riggleman | 2016-09-09 |
| Movie | Hot Tub Time Machine 2 | Brad | 2015-02-20 |
| Movie | Misery Loves Comedy | Self | 2015-01-23 |
| Series | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Himself | 2015-03-23 |
| Movie | Addicted to Fresno | Damon | 2015-10-02 |
| Movie | Hello, My Name Is Doris | Nasir | 2015-11-27 |
| Movie | Flock of Dudes | Ro | 2015-06-13 |
| Movie | Hell and Back | Dave the Demon (voice) | 2015-10-02 |
| Series | Silicon Valley | Dinesh Chugtai | 2014-04-06 |
| Movie | The Last of the Great Romantics | George the Counter Guy | 2014-07-17 |
| Movie | Loaded | Raza | 2014-03-08 |
| Series | The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail | Self | 2014-07-24 |
| Movie | Sex Tape | Punit | 2014-07-17 |
| Movie | The Kings of Summer | Gary | 2013-01-19 |
| Movie | The Arrangement | Alfred Dalton | 2013-01-01 |
| Movie | Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male | Himself | 2013-07-21 |
| Movie | Bad Milo! | Bobbi | 2013-08-28 |
| Movie | Timms Valley | Arjit Pondicherry | 2013-12-31 |
| Movie | Hell Baby | Cable Guy | 2013-09-06 |
| Movie | The Five-Year Engagement | Pakistani Chef | 2012-04-27 |
| Series | Bunk | Unknown | 2012-06-08 |
| Series | Burning Love | Zakir | 2012-06-01 |
| Series | Portlandia | SoCal Waiter | 2011-01-21 |
| Series | Franklin & Bash | Pindar Singh | 2011-06-01 |
| Series | The Green Room with Paul Provenza | Himself | 2010-06-10 |
| Movie | Life As We Know It | Simon | 2010-10-02 |
| Series | Michael & Michael Have Issues | Kumail | 2009-07-15 |
| Series | Community | Lapari | 2009-09-17 |