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Kal Penn
🎂 Apr 23, 1977 (48)
Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Kalpen Suresh Modi (born April 23, 1977) is an American actor, author, comedian, and former White House staff member in the Obama administration. He is best known for his role as Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar movie franchise.
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Smile
2022
Superman Returns
2006
Love Don't Co$t a Thing
2003
Son of the Mask
2005
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
2004
Epic Movie
2007
Deck the Halls
2006
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
2002
The Layover
2017
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
2008
A Lot Like Love
2005
The Underdoggs
2024
Once Upon a Time in Venice
2017
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
2011
Man About Town
2006
Malibu's Most Wanted
2003
Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj
2006
Emily & Tim
2015
The Namesake
2006
Bachelor Party Vegas
2006
Better Off Single
2016
Hot Mess Holiday
2021
Speech & Debate
2017
The Ashram
2018
Sueno
2005
American Desi
2001
Untitled Horror Movie
2021
The Girl in the Photographs
2015
The Sisterhood of Night
2015
Harold & Kumar Go to Amsterdam
2008
Awesometown
2006
A Prayer for Rain
2014
Ball and Chain
2004
Where's the Party Yaar?
2003
TV Shows
Fancy Nancy
2018
Mira, Royal Detective
2020
House
2004
Battle Creek
2015
Deadbeat
2014
We Are Men
2013
Sunnyside
2019
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Clarice
2021
The Santa Clauses
2022
American Horror Story
2011
24
2001
The Big Bang Theory
2007
Industry
2020
New Girl
2011
Spin City
1996
Angel
1999
Tru Calling
2003
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996
ER
1994
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
2023
All About the Andersons
2003
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1997
The Agency
2001
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Kal Penn
1977-04-23 · Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Kalpen Suresh Modi (born April 23, 1977) is an American actor, author, comedian, and former White House staff member in the Obama administration. He is best known for his role as Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar movie franchise. He is also known for his roles as Lawrence Kutner on the television program House, White House staffer Seth Wright on Designated Survivor, Kevin in How I Met Your Mother and Nikhil Ganguli in the film The Namesake (2006). In early 2009, Penn was offered the position of Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, which he accepted, necessitating his character Lawrence Kutner being written out of the TV series House. In 2020, Penn wrote a memoir called "You Can't Be Serious". While promoting this memoir, Penn announced that he and his boyfriend of 11 years, named Josh, were engaged