Mindy Kaling

TV Actress

Mindy Kaling was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States on June 24th, 1979 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 44, Mindy Kaling 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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Other Names / Nick Names
Vera Mindy Chokalingam
Date of Birth
June 24, 1979
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Age
44 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Profession
Actor, Comedian, Film Actor, Screenwriter, Television Actor, Voice Actor
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Mindy Kaling Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 44 years old, Mindy Kaling has this physical status:

Height
163cm
Weight
65kg
Hair Color
Black
Eye Color
Dark Brown
Build
Average
Measurements
Not Available
Mindy Kaling Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Hinduism
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
Mindy Kaling Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Not Available
Children
2
Dating / Affair
B. J. Novak (2005-2007), Benjamin Nugent (2008-2012)
Parents
Avu Chokalingam, Dr. Swati Chokalingam
Siblings
Vijay Jojo Chokalingam (Older Brother) (Anti-affirmative action activist)
Other Family
Nepal Chandra Raisircar (Maternal Grandfather), Amita Roychoudhury (Maternal Grandmother)
Mindy Kaling Life

Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), also known as Mindy Kaling, is an American comedian, actor, and writer.

She appeared in Kelly Kapoor in the NBC sitcom The Office from 2005 to 2012.

She was also an actor who appeared in it, was a writer, executive producer, and director.

In 2010, she was given a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series.

She was one of Time Magazine's "Most Influential People" in 2013 and 2014's "Women of The Year" in Glamour.

Kaling gained notoriety for concering, writing, directing, and starring in the Fox/Hulu comedy series The Mindy Project (2012–2017).

She was also the co-creator, writer, and producer of the NBC sitcom Champions (2018) and the Hulu miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019).

Kaling's film work includes voice roles in Despicable Me (2010), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and Inside Out (2015).

She appeared in The Night Before (2015), the epic adventure A Wrinkle in Time, the heist comedy Ocean's 8, and the comedy Late Night (2019). Kaling has written two best-selling memoirs, titled Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? in addition to her film and television work, Kaling has written two other New York Times best-selling books titled Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) (2011) and Why Not Me? (2015).

Early life

Vera Mindy Chokalingam was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to father Avudaiappan Chokalingam (Tamil: ); architect, engineer, and mother Swati Chokalingam (Bengali: OB/Gynecologist) and grandmother Swati Chokalingam (Bengali: OB/GYN). Vijay, she has an elder brother. Both parents of Kaling are from India and met while working in the same hospital in Nigeria. The hospital's father, a Tamilian immigrant, was in charge of the construction of a wing. Her mother, a Bengali from Mumbai (Bombay), was working as an OB/GYN. The family immigrated to the United States in 1979, the same year Kaling was born. In 2012, Kaling's mother died of pancreatic cancer.

Kaling has said she has never been named Vera, her first name, but she has been referred to as Mindy since her mother was pregnant with her while her parents were living in Bengal. They were already planning to move to the United States and needed a "cute American name" for their daughter, according to Kaling, and they loved the name Mindy from the television show Mork & Mindy. According to Kaling, the name Vera refers to the "incarnation of a Hindu goddess." In 1997, Kaling graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge. She enrolled Dartmouth College, where she was a member of The Dartmouth comic strip Badly Drawn Girl (the college's daily newspaper) and was a writer for the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern (the college's humor magazine).

Kaling earned a bachelor's degree in playwriting from Dartmouth College in 2001. She was a classics major for a large part of college and studied Latin, a subject she had been working on since the seventh grade. Dr. Katz' comedy collection, Frasier and Cheers are among her early influences on her comedies.

Personal life

Katherine Swati, a daughter of Kaling, gave birth to her daughter in December 2017. Spencer Avu, her son, was born in September 2020. Kaling has opted not to reveal the identity of her children's biological father, not even to her closest relatives.

Kaling has a close friendship with B. J. Novak, whom she encountered while writing for The Office, with Novak describing Kaling as "the most important person in my life" (on Fresh Air with Terry Gross). When writing and acting on the show, the two characters alternating on and off. Novak is the godfather of Kaling's two children.

Kaling's mother died in January 2012 on the same day that Fox discovered the Mindy Project. Kaling was listed in the Time 100 list of influential people in 2012. She was named one of Glamour's Women of the Year in 2014.

Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, awarded her an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters on June 10, 2018.

Kaling is a 1% owner of Swansea City, a Welsh football team that competes in the EFL Championship.

Kaling was interviewed on an episode of Archetypes, Meghan Markle's podcast in September 2022. Markle and Kaling explore a variety of aspects, including being a single mother and how this interacts with her upbringing within the more typical family and societal expectation of India.

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Mindy Kaling Career

Career

Kaling, a 19-year-old sophomore at Dartmouth, was an intern on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Kaling has claimed that she never saw a family like hers on television, giving her a dual perspective in her writing. What she heard as a child of immigrants, she believes the "everyone against me" attitude is what she learned as an immigrant child. Mindy Lahiri, author Jhumpa Lahiri, was given the Mindy Project character Mindy Lahiri.

Kaling migrated to Brooklyn, New York, after college. Kaling said one of her worst work experiences was as a production assistant on the Crossing Over With John Edward psychic exhibition. "Depressing" is the word that she referred to. Kaling appeared on stage at the same time as stand-up comedy.

Kaling devised her stage name after realizing that emcees would have a difficult time pronouncing Chokalingam, and that she's even made a ruckus about it. Before being on The Office, she toured solo as well as with Craig Robinson.

In August 2002, Kaling portrayed Ben Affleck in an off-Broadway play called Matt & Ben, which she co-wrote with her best friend, Brenda Withers, who portrayed Matt Damon. The performance was dubbed one of Time magazine's "Top Ten Theatrical Events of The Year" and was "a surprise hit" at the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival. Withers and Kaling had been "for their own amusement" before they appeared to be Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, the goofy show that reimagined how Damon and Affleck came to write Good Will Hunting.

Kaling's blog, Things I've Bought That I Love, reemerged on her website on September 29, 2011. Mindy Ephron, "a name Kaling chose because she was intrigued by the prospect of her 20-something Indian-American self as a long-lost Ephron sister."

After reading a spec script she wrote in 2004, when Greg Daniels was trying to adapt The Office from the BBC TV series of the same name, he recruited Kaling as a writer-performer. "She's very original," he said. "If there's anything that seems phony, lazy, or passé," she'll pounce on it." Kaling, 24 years old, was the only woman on an eight-person staff when she first began working at The Office. Kelly Kapoor, the series's second episode, was introduced as a character, "Diversity Day." Kaling's television appearances include an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm (2005), where she appeared as Richard Lewis' assistant. She appeared on CD Comedy Death-Ray and coauthored portions of an episode of Saturday Night Live in April 2006. Kaling made her film debut in The 40-Year Virgin, with Steve Carell as a waitress in Unaccompanied Minorities.

In an interview with The A.V., I discussed The A.V. Kelly is "an exaggerated interpretation of what I suspect the upper-level writers' opinions of me," she said at the club. Kaling supervised The 3rd Floor. She produced the season 6 episode "Body Language," which marked her television debut. She appeared in License to Wed with fellow Office actors John Krasinski, Angela Kinsey, and Brian Baumgartner in 2007. Kaling appeared in the 2009 film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian as a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum tour guide.

At the end of Season 7, her deal was set to come to an end. On September 15, 2011, she signed a new deal to remain with the show for Season 8 and was promoted to full executive producer. Her Universal Television contract included a development contract for a new series (eventually titled The Mindy Project), in which she appeared as an actor and contributed as a writer. After the ninth-season episode "New Guys," Kaling left The Office. However, she appeared in the final episode of the series as a guest star. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Kaling's book In 2011, Kaling wrote a memoir. (And Other Concerns) appeared on the New York Times best-seller list, along with Other Concerns. Why Not Me?, her second book, delves into the events of her life since 2011, and was published on September 15, 2015.

Why Not Me?

At No. 2, the company was launched at No. 1. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. In 2020, she published Nothing Like I Imagined (Except For Often) with Amazon Original Stories.

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series was given to Kaling and her co-writers and producers of The Office five times in a row. For the episode "Niagara," she received a nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series with Daniels in 2010. Kaling also discussed the Television Academy's sexism, because after being told by the television academy that she would be barred from the producer list, because there were too many producers. “They made me, not any of the other writers, fill out a complete form and write an article about all my contributions as a writer and a producer,” Kaling told Elle about how her name was eventually included on the Emmys list when she was nominated for an Emmy for an Outstanding Comedy Series. In an interview with Refinery 29, Kaling rebutted Kaling's statement, saying that I had contributed, when my real record stood for itself." In a series of tweets, she apologised, but in a series of tweets of rebutting her interview, she apologized for her continued exposure to Elle, honoring the challenges faced as she reflected on her career journey as she reflected on her career progress to Elle.

In No Strings Attached, she portrayed Shira, a doctor who is a roommate and colleague of Emma's main character Emma (played by Natalie Portman). In 2012, Kaling made an appearance in The Five-Year Engagement as Vanetha. "Is it Mindy Kaling?" after her success on The Office culminated in her being acknowledged by Nickolas Hummert: "Is she Mindy Kaling?"

Kaling pitched The Mindy Project, a single-camera comedy that Fox starred in in, in 2012. In 2012, Fox began airing the series. Time magazine named her on their list of the 100 most influential people in the country in 2013. Kaling notes that she is often referred to as a pioneer, because there are not many Indian-American women on television. Fox cancelled the show in May 2015, but Hulu took it up for a 26-episode fourth season and a 16-episode fifth season. Kaling's sixth season, which will debut on September 2017, will be the last on the show. On November 14, 2017, the season came to an end.

In Pixar's 2015 film Inside Out, Taffyta Muttonfudge appeared in Disney's animated comedy film Wreck-It Ralph and Disgust. Champions, where Kaling is a writer, editor, and producer, was ordered by NBC in 2017. She appeared on NBC as a recurring guest on the show, which premiered on March 8, 2018. After a season, it was cancelled.

In Ocean's 8, the all-female version of Ocean's Eleven, she appeared in Mrs. Who in A Wrinkle in Time, the live-action Disney adaptation of the book, and she appeared alongside Helena Bonham Carter, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Awkwafina, and Rihanna.

Kaling produced Never Have I Ever With Lang Fisher, a comedy partially based on Kaling's childhood story, which is especially popular in the Boston area. It premiered on Netflix on April 27, 2020 and stars Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. It's about an Indian American high school student grappling with the death of her father. The series has received rave reviews. The series has been described as a watershed moment for South Asian representation in Hollywood, and has been praised for debating Asian stereotypes.

Upcoming projects

With Dan Goor, Kaling is expected to co-write the third installment in the Legally Blonde series. In May 2023, the film is scheduled to be released. She has also promised to re-team with Dan Goor to write and appear alongside Priyanka Chopra in a comedy about an Indian-American wedding under Universal.

HBO Max announced in February 2021 that they had ordered Velma, an adult-oriented Scooby-Doo spin-off series, with Kaling executive producing as well as voicing the titular character.

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Obama steps in to support flagging Biden again: Ex-president set to help Joe raise $25million at glitzy New York fundraiser alongside Bill Clinton... while Trump heads to wake of slain NYPD cop Jonathan Diller

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 28, 2024
Former President Barack Obama is set to lend President Joe Biden a hand with his 2024 campaign, appearing at a glitzy New York City fundraiser alongside Bill Clinton Thursday at Radio City Music Hall. The Democratic trio will be interviewed by CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert and The Office and The Mindy Project star Mindy Kaling is set to emcee. Donors will be entertained by musical guests Lizzo , Queen Latifah, Ben Platt , Cynthia Erivo , and Lea Michele .

Mindy Kaling ADDRESSES alleged 'falling out' with her ex and children's godfather B.J. Novak

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 25, 2024
Mindy Kaling addressed the alleged 'falling out' between herself and her ex-boyfriend B.J. Novak, whom she remained close with after they dated on/off between 2005-2013. 'I think it has something to do with social media activity or lack thereof between Mindy and B.J. It's just like the fans noticing. So I reached out and I asked someone, and they said they heard they had a falling out,' the Deux U podcast claimed last Thursday. Last Friday, the 44-year-old Morning Show actress (sarcastically) commented on DeuxMoi's Instagram post: 'Omg i haaate him so much.'

Mindy Kaling is in a slew of emotions over Kate Hudson while filming together on a new project: She is simply amazing, so warm and friendly.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 20, 2024
Mindy Kaling, 44, raving over actress Kate Hudson on Monday as the two executive produce a new comedy basketball film. She blasted the Los Angeles native's leadership skills and ability to take on such responsibilities as her character is unexpectedly proclaimed head of an athletic franchise. Kaling said, "She is absolutely incredible." What's great about Kate is that she's such a pro, but she's never done a sitcom before,

Aw! After having children without a husband, Mindy Kaling believes that people regard her as a "spinster."

perezhilton.com, September 7, 2022
Mindy Kaling doesn’t need a man!! In a very candid episode of Meghan Markle‘s new podcast Archetypes out on Tuesday, titled the Stigma of the Singleton, the Never Have I Ever creator opened up about her decision to have two children without a husband — including the cultural ramifications and society’s perception of her choice!And, y’all, she got SO deep!!

Mindy Kaling B.J. rumors that the long-standing rumors are correct. Novak Is Her Baby Daddy!

perezhilton.com, August 10, 2022
Who’s their daddy?! Many of Mindy Kaling's followers are perplexed, and now she is responding to a rumor that Katherine, 5, and Spencer, 2, is her The Office co-star B.J. Novak!

Reese Witherspoon says she once fought in an "abusive relationship" with Oprah Winfrey and Mindy Kaling

perezhilton.com, February 6, 2018
If there is one piece of advice, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. What made Reese Witherspoon, who plays Mrs. Whatsit in the forthcoming Disney Timespace project, proud to give similar tips back in the Glamour's Women of the Year awards: be "ambitious." It was whether she believed it or not when she left an intimate relationship. Encounter On Producer's Plane Natalie Portman recalls 'Unacceptable' Encounter on Producer's Plane The Oprah Winfrey and Mindy Kaling co-produced an article in which the trio discussed the importance of the Time's Up initiative for women in various industries. Reese was surprisingly forthcoming when the Big O asked her Wrinkle In Time costars how they were molded into the people they are today. After Winfrey asked the most difficult decision the actresses had to make “to fulfill [their] destiny,” the Cruel Intentions actress admitted: I think I'm probably ending an intimate one with the sand, and it got crossed, and my brain just changed, as it was mine. I couldn't go any further. I was a youth at the time, and it was transformative."
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