Kunal Nayyar
Kunal Nayyar was born in Hammersmith, England, United Kingdom on April 30th, 1981 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 42, Kunal Nayyar 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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Kunal Nayyar (Kuu-NAHL NY?r), born 30 April 1981, is a British-Indian actor best known for his role as Raj Koothrappali in CBS's The Big Bang Theory, which aired from 2007 to 2019.
Nayyar was named as the world's third highest-paid television actor in 2015 and 2018, with gross revenues of US$20 million and $23.5 million, respectively.
Early life
Nayyar was born in Hammersmith, London, on April 30th, 1981, to a family of Indian immigrants. His family returned to India and he grew up in New Delhi, where his parents live. He played badminton for the school team at St. Columba's Academy.
Nayyar graduated from the University of Portland, Oregon, in 1999, to pursue a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance. When working on his degree, he began taking acting lessons and appeared in several school plays.
Nayyar decided to become an actor after attending the American College Theater Festival. He then attended Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts in acting.
Personal life
Neha Kapur, a model and actress, and Femina Miss India 2006 married in December 2011.
Career
After graduating, Nayyar found work doing American television ads and plays on the London stage. He first gained attention in the US for his role in the West Coast production of Rajiv Joseph's 2006 play Huck & Holden, where he portrayed an Indian exchange student anxious to experience American culture before returning home. In 2006, Nayyar teamed up with Arun Das to write the play Cotton Candy, which premiered in New Delhi to positive reviews.
Nayyar made a guest appearance on the CBS drama NCIS in the season four episode "Suspicion", in which he played Youssef Zidan, an Iraqi terrorist.
In 2007, Nayyar's agent heard about a role for a scientist in an upcoming CBS pilot and encouraged him to audition for the part. This led to his casting in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, where he played the role of an astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali from its premiere in September of that year to the show's conclusion in May 2019.
In 2011, he co-hosted the Tribute to Nerds show with co-star Simon Helberg at the comedy festival Just for Laughs.
Nayyar voiced Gupta in Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012. During the same year he completed the shooting of the film, Dr. Cabbie, produced by Bollywood actor Salman Khan.
From 5 May to 29 June 2015, Nayyar performed in an off-Broadway production, The Spoils, written by and starring actor Jesse Eisenberg. Nayyar played Kalyan, a Nepalese student and roommate of the protagonist Ben, played by Eisenberg. The production transferred to London's West End in 2016.
Nayyar published a book about his career journey, titled Yes, My Accent is Real: and Some Other Things I Haven’t Told You, in September 2015.
He voiced another animated movie character named Guy Diamond in DreamWorks' Trolls, released in November 2016.
In 2020, Nayyar played a convicted serial killer named Sandeep on the Netflix UK production Criminal: UK. He appeared in the final episode of Season 2, which was released in August 2020. In the same year, he joined the cast of the thriller TV series Suspicion on Apple TV+, based on the Israeli thriller TV series False Flag, alongside Uma Thurman, Elizabeth Henstridge and Elyes Gabel.
In 2021, he was announced as having been picked to play the title role of A. J. Fikry in the upcoming comedy drama The Storied Life Of A. J. Fikry, alongside Lucy Hale and Christina Hendricks, an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Gabrielle Zevin.