Kumail Nanjiani
Born: 1978-05-02 in Karachi, Pakistan
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
2025
- Ella McCay as Trooper Nash
- Driver's Ed as Mr. Rivers
- Is / Was \ Will
- Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts as Self
2024
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire as Nadeem
- After Midnight as Self
- Destroy All Neighbors as Smelting Refinery Guard
- Grave Conversations as Self
2023
- Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake as Prismo (voice)
- Migration as Mack Mallard (voice)
- Poker Face as Joseph 'Gator Joe' Pilson
- Krapopolis as Spartan Army Leader (voice)
- History of the World: Part II
- Money Shot: The Pornhub Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Attack of the Doc! as Self
- Dr Phil LIVE! as Self
- Project Greenlight as Self
2022
- The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
- Obi-Wan Kenobi as Haja Estree
- The Boys Presents: Diabolical as Vik (voice)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Haja Estree
- Murderville as Kumail Nanjiani
- Welcome to Chippendales as Somen 'Steve' Banerjee
- Bee and PuppyCat as Howell (voice)
- Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals as Self - Kingo
2021
- Only Murders in the Building as Rudy Thurber
- What If...? as Kingo (voice)
- Eternals as Kingo
- Roll Up Your Sleeves as Self
- A Night at the Academy Museum as Self
2020
- Dolittle as Plimpton (voice)
- Reunited Apart as Self
- Little America ... (Executive Producer)
- Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 as Self
- The Lovebirds as Jibran
- Death to 2020 as Bark Multiverse
2019
- The Boys as Kumail Nanjiani (uncredited)
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- Stuber as Stu Prasad
- The Twilight Zone as Samir Wassan
- Men in Black: International as Pawny (voice)
- Bless the Harts as Jesus (voice)
- Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee as Self
- It Started As a Joke as Self
- Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik as Self
2018
- Lie Detector as Self
- Duck Butter as Jake
- Poop Talk as Self
- Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity as Self
2017
- Big Mouth as himself (voice)
- The Lego Ninjago Movie as Jay (voice)
- The Big Sick as Kumail Nanjiani
- A Happening of Monumental Proportions as Perry
- Fist Fight as Officer Mehar
2016
- Central Intelligence as Jared the Airport Security Guard
- Chelsea as Self
- Brother Nature as Riggleman
- The Late Bloomer as Rich
- HarmonQuest as Eddie Lizzard
- Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates as Keanu
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- Hot Ones as Self
- Taskmaster as Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- The Grinder as Prosecutor Leonard
- Hell and Back as Dave the Demon (voice)
- Misery Loves Comedy as Self
- Addicted to Fresno as Damon
- Hot Tub Time Machine 2 as Brad Syed
- Flock of Dudes as Ro
- Major Lazer as Thor (voice)
- Hello, My Name Is Doris as Nasir
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
- Silicon Valley as Dinesh Chugtai
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Broad City as Benny Calitri
- Sex Tape as Punit
- Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero as Cute-ling Mayor (voice)
- Loaded as Raza
- TripTank as Dick Genie (voice)
- Garfunkel and Oates as Jordan
- The Last of the Great Romantics as George the Counter Guy
- The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail as Self
2013
- The Last Leg as Self
- @midnight with Chris Hardwick as Self
- Hell Baby as Cable Guy
- Drunk History as Lakota Chief
- The Arrangement as Alfred Dalton
- Bad Milo! as Bobbi
- The Kings of Summer as Gary
- Timms Valley as Arjit Pondicherry
- The Jeselnik Offensive as Self
- Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male as Himself
2012
- Veep as Statistician
- Key & Peele as College Kid #1
- The Eric Andre Show as Self
- Burning Love as Zakir
- TableTop as Self - Guest
- The Five-Year Engagement as Pakistani Chef
- Bunk
2011
- Bob's Burgers as Skip Marooch (voice)
- Portlandia as Cell Phone Salesman
- Franklin & Bash as Pindar Singh
2010
- Adventure Time as Prismo (voice)
- Conan as Self
- Ugly Americans as Neilando Patel (voice)
- Life As We Know It as Simon
- The Green Room with Paul Provenza as Self
- Reggie Watts: Why Shit So Crazy?
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
- Community as Lapari
- Archer as Farooq Ashkani (voice)
- Michael & Michael Have Issues as Kumail
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2000
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Bees (voice)
1997
- The View as Self
1993
- The X-Files as Pasha
1989
- The Simpsons as Theo (voice)
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)