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:
- 63
- 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 | Driver's Ed | Mr. Rivers | 2025-09-13 |
| Movie | Ella McCay | Trooper Nash | 2025-12-11 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Boys Presents: Diabolical | 2022-03-03 | |
| Series | Obi-Wan Kenobi | 2022-05-26 | |
| Movie | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals | Self - Kingo | 2022-02-16 |
| Series | Welcome to Chippendales | Somen 'Steve' Banerjee | 2022-11-22 |
| Series | Bee and PuppyCat | Howell | 2022-09-06 |
| 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 | Dolittle | Plimpton (voice) | 2020-01-02 |
| Movie | Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 | Self | 2020-05-16 |
| Movie | Death to 2020 | Bark Multiverse | 2020-12-27 |
| Movie | The Lovebirds | Jibran | 2020-05-22 |
| 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 | 2016-06-15 |
| Series | Chelsea | Himself | 2016-05-11 |
| Movie | Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates | Keanu | 2016-07-07 |
| Movie | Brother Nature | Riggleman | 2016-09-09 |
| Movie | The Late Bloomer | Rich | 2016-10-07 |
| Series | HarmonQuest | Eddie Lizzard | 2016-07-14 |
| Series | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Himself | 2015-03-23 |
| Movie | Hot Tub Time Machine 2 | Brad Syed | 2015-02-20 |
| Movie | Flock of Dudes | Ro | 2015-06-13 |
| Movie | Misery Loves Comedy | Self | 2015-01-23 |
| Movie | Addicted to Fresno | Damon | 2015-10-02 |
| Movie | Hello, My Name Is Doris | Nasir | 2015-11-27 |
| Movie | Hell and Back | Dave the Demon (voice) | 2015-10-02 |
| Series | Silicon Valley | Dinesh Chugtai | 2014-04-06 |
| Movie | Loaded | Raza | 2014-03-08 |
| Movie | The Last of the Great Romantics | George the Counter Guy | 2014-07-17 |
| Movie | Sex Tape | Punit | 2014-07-17 |
| Series | The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail | Self | 2014-07-24 |
| Movie | The Kings of Summer | Gary | 2013-01-19 |
| Movie | Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male | Himself | 2013-07-21 |
| Movie | The Arrangement | Alfred Dalton | 2013-01-01 |
| Movie | Timms Valley | Arjit Pondicherry | 2013-12-31 |
| Movie | Bad Milo! | Bobbi | 2013-08-28 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Life As We Know It | Simon | 2010-10-02 |
| Series | The Green Room with Paul Provenza | Himself | 2010-06-10 |
| Series | Michael & Michael Have Issues | Kumail | 2009-07-15 |
| Series | Community | Lapari | 2009-09-17 |