Aasif Mandvi
Aasif Mandvi was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on March 5th, 1966 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 58, Aasif Mandvi biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Aasif Mandviwala (born March 5, 1966), also known as Aasif Mandvi (AH-sif MAHND-vee), is a British-American actor and comedian.
On August 9, 2006, he began working as an occasional contributing reporter on The Daily Show.
On March 12, 2007, he was promoted to a regular correspondent.
He is the lead actor, co-writer, and producer of the web series Halal in the Family, as well as an actor, writer, and co-producer of the HBO comedy film The Brink.
Mandvi is also the author of the book No Land's Man.
After delivering the commencement address that year, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanity Letters Degree by the Macaulay Honors College in June 2019.
He currently appears in the role of Ben Shakir in the CBS psychological drama Evil written and directed by Robert and Michelle King.
Early life
Mandvi was born in Bombay (now Mumbai, India), to a Dawoodi Bohra Muslim family. When he was a year old in Bradford, West Yorkshire, his family migrated to England, settling. Hakim's father, who had begun working in textiles research at Bradford University, later ran a corner store, while his mother, Fatima, was a nurse. Mandvi attended Woodhouse Grove School as an "working-class boy from Bradford." As Mandvi was 16 years old, his father became dissatisfied with Margaret Thatcher's administration and moved his family to Tampa, Florida, United States.
Personal life
Mandvi married Shaifali Puri, an author and humanitarian, at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, on August 27, 2017. The interfaith service (Puri is Hindu) was held in front of 220 people, including friends and relatives. Puri gave birth to their son on March 14, 2020, the first time they had known.
Mandvi has been suffering from persistent tinnitus for the rest of his life.
Mandvi is the author of the book No Land's Man.
After delivering the commencement address that year, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanity Letters Degree by the Macaulay Honors College in June 2019.
Mandvi works with disaster relief companies like the humanitarian organization Relief 4 Pakistan, which helps with flood relief in Pakistan. In 2010, he hosted the "Stand Up for Religious Freedom" comedy festival to raise funds for the charity. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, he performed with fellow Daily Show reporter Wyatt Cenac at Conan O'Brien's "I'm With Coco" charity for earthquake victims. He is also a sponsor of the Endometriosis Foundation of America.
Career
Mandvi earned a degree in theatre from the University of South Florida, and he spent time as a performer at Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World Resort. He then migrated to New York City, where he first appeared in off-Broadway productions. He was active in the Cowboys and Indian band during this period. He was given the Obie Award for his one-man show Sakina's Restaurant.
Mandvi appeared on Broadway as Ali Hakim in the 2002 revival of Oklahoma! Trevor Nunn's scripted the film. Tony Kushner also appeared in Homebody/Kabul. In the off-Broadway play Einstein's Gift, he portrayed Fritz Haber.
In On the Razzle, Tom Stoppard's On the Razzle, Mandvi appeared as Melchior in the Williamstown Theatre Festival, as well as the Culture Project's award-winning work on Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom. Mandvi appeared in Disgraced at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theatre in 2012. In the drama involving Ayad Akhtar, he played Amir, a Pakistani American lawyer grappling with his identity and Islam. The play went on to win the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. For his work, Mandvi was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.
In the episode "Line of Fire" of the show Miami Vice, Mandvi made his television debut as a doorman at the Miami Biltmore Hotel. He has appeared on television shows including ER, Sopranos, Sex and the City, CSI, Oz, Ed, The Bedford Diaries, Jericho, Sleeper Cell, and several versions of Law & Order, including Criminal Intent, Special Victims Unit, and Trial by Jury. He was the book reader for Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown (2006) and V. S. Naipaul's Magic Seeds (2004). In 2011, he appeared in Taco Bell commercials.
Mandvi appeared on the Daily Show in 2006. He was hired immediately and appeared on the show the same day. Mandvi became a regular correspondent in 2007. He appears in segments satirizing and analyzing Islamic, Middle-Eastern, and South-Asian-related topics, including "Senior Muslim Correspondent," "Senior Middle East Correspondent," and "Senior Muslim Correspondent."
Mandvi appeared on FOX's romantic comedy Us & Them in 2013.
Mandvi's interview with Don Yelton prompted Yelton's departure from the North Carolina Republican Party office in October 2013.
Mandvi played Rafiq Massoud in the HBO comedy series The Brink, beginning in June 2015. Mandvi appeared on the series both as a writer and co-producer. Mandvi appeared on Person of Interest as Sulaiman Khan, the CEO of a software security company, in April 2015. He was the lead actor, co-writer, and producer of the web series Halal in the Family, which premiered on Funny or Die in 2015.
Mandvi appeared on the climate change documentary Years of Living Dangerously as one of its celebrity correspondents in 2016.
Montgomery "Uncle Monty" Montgomery, a hero and distant relative of the Baudelaire children, appeared in three episodes of Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events beginning in 2017.
Mandvi was played in the Robert and Michelle King supernatural drama series Evil on CBS as Ben Shakir, a carpenter who works as a technology specialist, equipment handler, and debunker of supernatural phenomenon.
Mandvi appeared in the films The Siege and Die Hard with a Vengeance as well as the title role in Merchant Ivory Productions' film The Mystic Masseur. He appeared in the independent film American Chai, playing "Engineer Sam," the lead character's roommate. In Analyze This, he played Dr. Aziz of "Joe's Pizza" and was diagnosed with Paul Vitti's (Robert De Niro) panic attacks, and he appeared in "Joe's Pizza" in Spider-Man 2. He was also in commercials by Domino's Pizza and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). In Music and Lyrics, he portrayed deaf doorman Khan.
Mandvi appeared in the 2008 romantic comedy Ghost Town, as well as office worker Bob Spaulding in The Proposal, starring Sandra Bullock. Mandvi co-wrote with Jonathan Bines in October 2009, and the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York premiered today. He appeared in It's Kind of a Funny Film, a coming-of-age film written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, which was based on Ned Vizzini's 2006 book. In the film The Response, a script based on the transcripts of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals convened in Guantanamo in 2004, he co-starred as a Guantanamo captive. He appeared in M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (first published in 2010) as Commander Zhao. In the 2014 film Million Dollar Armchair, Mandvi played Mr. Chetty in the 2013 comedy The Internship, and portrayed Ash Vasudevan.