| Mindy Kaling AKA Vera Chokalingam Born: 24-Jun-1979
Birthplace: Cambridge, MA
Gender: Female
Religion: Hindu
Race or Ethnicity: Asian/Indian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Film/TV Producer, Playwright Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Kelly Kapoor on The Office Mindy Kaling is a writer and producer for NBC's The Office, and plays Kelly Kapoor, the ditzy but not dumb young woman in Dunder-Mifflin's Scranton office. At Dartmouth she drew the comic "Badly Drawn Girl" for the college paper, and she performed with the improv group Dog Day Players. She briefly worked as a production assistant on Crossing Over with John Edward, then co-wrote and starred as Ben Affleck in the off-Broadway play Matt & Ben, which ran for ten months in 2003-04. TV producer Greg Daniels loved the play and hired her to write for The Office, and she has been the primary writer for a dozen episodes.
She started appearing on-camera when the show needed a minority woman to slap Office manager Steve Carell in the face for racially insensitive remarks in the first-season episode "Diversity Day". In Kaling's third-season episode "Diwali", introducing the Indian holiday to her co-workers, her parents were played by her real parents, who are both Indian immigrants to America. She keeps her romantic life out of the public eye, but is known to have dated Benjamin Nugent, author of American Nerd: The Story of My People. In 2009 she signed a development deal with NBC to produce and star in her own situation comedy, to debut in 2010. Father: Avu Chokalingam (architect)
Mother: Swati Chokalingam (physician)
Boyfriend: Benjamin Nugent (author)
High School: Buckingham Browne & Nichols, Cambridge, MA (1997)
University: Dartmouth College (2001)
Indian Ancestry
TELEVISION
The Office (U.S.) Kelly Kapoor (2005-)
Saturday Night Live Writer (2006)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (14-May-2009)
License to Wed (3-Jul-2007)
Unaccompanied Minors (30-Nov-2006)
The 40 Year-Old Virgin (11-Aug-2005)
Wrote plays:
Matt & Ben (2003)
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