Kumail Nanjiani
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.
Tuntud rollide järgi
5.0 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
8.0 Simpsonid
1989
5.8 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
6.1 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
5.1 Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
8.4 The Boys
2019
6.4 Late Show with David Letterman
1993
8.5 Adventure Time
2010
6.3 The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
7.8 Bob's Burgers
2011
8.4 Salatoimikud
1993
7.1 Conan
2010
Filmograafia
- 2025Ella McCay (Trooper Nash)
- 2024Destroy All Neighbors (Smelting Refinery Guard)
- 2024Tondipüüdjad: jäine suvi (Nadeem)
- 2023Pardid! (Mack Mallard (voice))
- 2023Attack of the Doc! (Self)
- 2023Money Shot: The Pornhub Story (Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
- 2022Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (Self - Haja Estree)
- 2022Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals (Self - Kingo)
- 2021Igavesed (Kingo)
- 2021A Night at the Academy Museum (Self)
- 2020Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 (Self)
- -Thread: An Insidious Tale
- 2027The Comeback King
- 2026The Wrong Girls (GG (voice))
- 2026The Breadwinner (Peyton)
- 2026The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas (Self)
- 2026Over Your Dead Body (Hollywood Dan (uncredited))
- 2025Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (Self)
- 2025Driver's Ed (Mr. Rivers)
- 2025Is / Was \ Will
- 2023Project Greenlight (Self)
- 2022Welcome to Chippendales (Somen 'Steve' Banerjee)
- 2021Roll Up Your Sleeves (Self)
- 2020Death to 2020 (Bark Multiverse)
- 2020The Lovebirds (Jibran)
- 2020Dolittle (Plimpton (voice))
- 2019Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee (Self)
- 2019Bless the Harts (Jesus (voice))
- 2019Stuber (Stu Prasad)
- 2019Mehed mustas: globaalne oht (Pawny (voice))
- 2019It Started As a Joke (Self)
- 2018Duck Butter (Jake)
- 2018Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity (Self)
- 2018Poop Talk (Self)
- 2017Big Mouth (himself (voice))
- 2017The Lego Ninjago Movie (Jay (voice))
- 2017A Happening of Monumental Proportions (Perry)
- 2017The Big Sick (Kumail Nanjiani)
- 2017Fist Fight (Officer Mehar)
- 2016The Late Bloomer (Rich)
- 2016Brother Nature (Riggleman)
- 2016Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (Keanu)
- 2016Luurespetsid (Jared the Airport Security Guard)
- 2015Hello, My Name Is Doris (Nasir)
- 2015Hell and Back (Dave the Demon (voice))
- 2015Addicted to Fresno (Damon)
- 2015Flock of Dudes (Ro)
- 2015The Late Late Show with James Corden (Self)
- 2015Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (Brad Syed)
- 2015Misery Loves Comedy (Self)
- 2014The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail (Self)
- 2014Sex Tape (Punit)
- 2014The Last of the Great Romantics (George the Counter Guy)
- 2014Silicon Valley (Dinesh Chugtai)
- 2014Loaded (Raza)
- 2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Self - Guest)
- 2013Timms Valley (Arjit Pondicherry)
- 2013Hell Baby (Cable Guy)
- 2013Bad Milo! (Bobbi)
- 2013Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male (Himself)
- 2013The Kings of Summer (Gary)
- 2013The Arrangement (Alfred Dalton)
- 2012Bunk
- 2012Burning Love (Zakir)
- 2012The Five-Year Engagement (Pakistani Chef)
- 2011Franklin & Bash (Pindar Singh)
- 2010Life As We Know It (Simon)
- 2010Reggie Watts: Why Shit So Crazy?
- -Compulsive Liar (Simon)
- -All Day & All Night
- -Green Bank
- -Howl
- 2026Funny AF with Kevin Hart (Self - Judge)
- 2026The Screener (Parker Harrison)
- 2025Deli Boys (Danyal Khan)
- 2024Grave Conversations (Self)
- 2024Fallout (Xander Harkness)
- 2024After Midnight (Self)
- 2023Krapopolis (Spartan Army Leader (voice))
- 2023Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (Prismo (voice))
- 2023Dr Phil LIVE! (Self)
- 2023History of the World: Part II (Vatsyayana)
- 2023Pokkerinägu (Joseph 'Gator Joe' Pilson)
- 2022The Jennifer Hudson Show (Self)
- 2022Bee and PuppyCat (Howell (voice))
- 2022Obi-Wan Kenobi (Haja Estree)
- 2022The Boys Presents: Diabolical (Vik (voice))
- 2022Murderville (Kumail Nanjiani)
- 2021Ainult selle maja mõrvad (Rudy Thurber)
- 2021What If...? (Kingo (voice))
- 2020Reunited Apart (Self)
- 2019The Kelly Clarkson Show (Self)
- 2019Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik (Self)
- 2019The Boys (Kumail Nanjiani (uncredited))
- 2019The Twilight Zone (Samir Wassan)
- 2016HarmonQuest (Eddie Lizzard)
- 2016Chelsea (Self)
- 2016WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews (Self - Guest)
- 2015The Grinder (Prosecutor Leonard)
- 2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Self - Guest)
- 2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (Self)
- 2015Taskmaster (Self)
- 2015Major Lazer (Thor (voice))
- 2015The Late Late Show with James Corden (Self - Guest)
- 2015Hot Ones (Self)
- 2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (Self)
- 2014Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (Cute-ling Mayor (voice))
- 2014Garfunkel and Oates (Jordan)
- 2014Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Self)
- 2014TripTank (Dick Genie (voice))
- 2014Late Night with Seth Meyers (Self - Guest)
- 2014Off Camera with Sam Jones (Self)
- 2014Broad City (Benny Calitri)
- 2013@midnight with Chris Hardwick (Self)
- 2013Drunk History (Lakota Chief)
- 2013The Jeselnik Offensive (Self)
- 2013The Last Leg (Self)
- 2013Newsreaders (Amir Larussa)
- 2012The Eric Andre Show (Self)
- 2012Veep (Statistician)
- 2012Key & Peele (College Kid #1)
- 2011Traffic Light (Paul)
- 2011Portlandia (Cell Phone Salesman)
- 2011Portlandia (Birthday Loan Officer)
- 2011Portlandia (Human Bandwidth Manager)
- 2011Portlandia (Denim Salesman)
- 2011Portlandia (SoCal Waiter)
- 2011Bob's Burgers (Skip Marooch (voice))
- 2010Conan (Self)
- 2010The Green Room with Paul Provenza (Self)
- 2010Adventure Time (Prismo (voice))
- 2010Ugly Americans (Neilando Patel (voice))
- 2009Community (Lapari)
- 2009Archer (Farooq Ashkani (voice))
- 2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Self - Guest)
- 2009Michael & Michael Have Issues (Kumail)
- 2009RuPaul's Drag Race (Self - Guest Judge)
- 2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Self)
- 2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! (Self - Guest)
- 2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! (Self - Guest Host)
- 2000Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Bees (voice))
- 1997The View (Self)
- 1997The View (Self - Guest)
- 1993Salatoimikud (Pasha)
- 1993Late Show with David Letterman (Self - Guest)
- 1992MTV Movie & TV Awards (Self - Presenter)
- 1989Simpsonid (Theo (voice))
- 1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark (Self)
- 1979Laugh Factory (Self)
- 1975Saturday Night Live (Self - Host)
- 1975Saturday Night Live (Indian Reporter (uncredited))
- 1975Good Morning America (Self - Guest)
- 1953The Oscars (Self - Presenter)
- -Very Young Frankenstein