Kumail Nanjiani

Kumail Nanjiani

Kumail Ali Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and podcaster. He is best known for his role as Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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Summary Kumail NanjianiKumail Ali Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and podcaster. He is best known for his role as Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. He also co-wrote and starred in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick. 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. He has also voiced Prismo on the animated series Adventure Time and starred on the TNT series Franklin & Bash and the Adult Swim series Newsreaders. He headlined the first episode of the All Access revival of The Twilight Zone on CBS All Access.

He appeared on Inside Amy Schumer in the episode \”12 Angry Men Inside Amy. Schumer\”, a parody of 12 Angry Men. In July 2015, he provided his voice for the character of Mshak Moradi in the Hunt the Truth audio drama, part of the marketing campaign for Halo 5: Guardians. In 2017, he starred in The Time Hero Part Part Zero: Penn-Time Hero. In 2019, he headlined the episode of All Access’ revival of Twilight Zone, The All Access Twilight Zone: Part Two, starring Zoe Kazan and playing himself playing Zoe Gordon. The episode aired on CBS at 9 p.m. ET.