Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), known professionally as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer widely known for portraying Kelly Kapoor on the NBC sitcom The Office and creating and starring as Mindy Lahiri in the Fox sitcom The Mindy Project. She is also a co-executive producer, director, and writer of several of the show's episodes. Kaling also wrote, was executive producer for and directed various episodes of The Office.Kaling's notable films include This Is the End, Wreck-It Ralph, and The Five-Year Engagement. Kaling was nominated five consecutive times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series as a producer of The Office. In 2010, she received a nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series with Greg Daniels for the episode, "Niagara". The next year, she published a humorous memoir, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns). In 2013, Entertainment Weekly identified Kaling as one of the "50 Coolest and Most Creative Entertainers" in Hollywood. In the same year, Kaling was recognized by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
| Full Name | Mindy Kaling |
| Net Worth | $18 million |
| Date Of Birth | June 24, 1979 |
| Place Of Birth | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Height | 1.63 m |
| Occupation | Actress, comedian, writer, producer, director |
| Profession | Screenwriter, Television producer, Comedian, Voice Actor, Author, Television Director |
| Work Position | Awards for Mindy Kaling |
| Education | Dartmouth College, Buckingham Browne & Nichols |
| Nationality | American |
| Parents | Avu Chokalingam, Swati Roysircar |
| Siblings | Vijay Chokalingam |
| Nicknames | Mindy Kaling, Kaling, Mindy, Mia Khalifa, Rachel kaling |
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| Awards | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Humor, Glamour Award for Woman of the Year, Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Pe... |
| Nominations | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress: Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, Teen Choice Award for Choice Comedian, Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding A... |
| Movies | Ocean's Eight, Riley's First Date?, The Night Before, Inside Out, This Is the End, Wreck-It Ralph, The Five-Year Engagement, No Strings Attached, Despicable Me, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, License to Wed, Unaccompanied Minors, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, A Wrinkle in Time |
| TV Shows | The Mindy Project, The Office, The Office: Subtle Sexuality, The Office: The 3rd Floor, House Poor |
| Star Sign | Cancer |
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| 1 | Most people want to ask about my size and how brave I am. I'm like, 'I'm not brave, I'm just not really skinny.'" |
| 2 | I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. |
| 3 | As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying. |
| 4 | [from Twitter] My heart wants white jeans but my head says no. Kidney says go for it, spleen is ambivalent. Ovaries say no comment, rather rudely actually. |
| 5 | I want it both ways. David Brent wants to run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds. And I definitely feel that way, too. |
| 6 | Well, all the guys want to have sex with me all the time. Every day I come to work it's nonstop sexual harassment. They had to have some people from General Electric come down and talk to us about it. There's a lawsuit that's about to happen. But other than that, it's been great. - on being one of only 2 female writers on a staff of 14 for The Office (2005) |
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| 1 | Counts Fawlty Towers (1975) among some of her earliest comedic writing influences. |
| 2 | Is of Indian-American descent. |
| 3 | Mindy Kaling's mother was an ob-gyn doctor, inspiring many of the story lines in The Mindy Project (2012). |
| 4 | One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2013). |
| 5 | Her mother Swati, an ob/gyn physician, once worked in the same Boston hospital with Ronald Krasinski, the internist father of her The Office (2005) (TV) co-star, John Krasinski. |
| 6 | Is close friends with Web analyst and actor David Harris, who briefly appears in her new comic memoir "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)'. |
| 7 | Was the first female member of The Office (2005) (TV) writing staff when she began there at age 24. |
| 8 | Co-wrote the acclaimed play "Matt and Ben", a comedy about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. She played the role of Ben. |
| 9 | Graduated from Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1997 along with Alison Folland. |
| 10 | Graduated from Dartmouth College, where she was a member of The Dog Day Players improv troupe, and where she also wrote a comic strip for the campus newspaper called 'Badly Drawn Girl'. |
| 11 | Her middle name, Mindy, was taken from the TV show, Mork & Mindy (1978) (TV). Her mother was pregnant with her in Nigeria and that was the only American show they got there. When she met Robin Williams and told him the story, he didn't believe her. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| The Late Late Show with James Corden | 2016-2017 | TV Series | Herself |
| 100 Years | 2017 | Documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| Hollywood Today Live | 2016 | TV Series | Herself |
| Late Night with Seth Meyers | 2014-2016 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Guest |
| Good Morning America | 2015-2016 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Off Camera with Sam Jones | 2016 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | 2015-2016 | TV Series | Herself - Guest / Herself |
| The View | 2013-2016 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Guest / Herself - Guest Co-Hostess |
| Star Plates | 2016 | TV Series | Herself |
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2012-2016 | TV Series | Herself - Guest / Herself |
| Conan | 2010-2016 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Today | 2014-2016 | TV Series | Herself - Guest / Guest 3rd Hour Co-Anchor / Herself |
| E! Live from the Red Carpet | 2015-2016 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 2015 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Talk | 2015 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards | 2015 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series |
| Rachael Ray | 2012-2015 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Guest |
| IMDb: What to Watch | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Unscripted | 2015 | TV Series | Herself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Steve Martin | 2015 | TV Special | Herself (uncredited) |
| Entertainment Tonight | 2014-2015 | TV Series | Herself |
| E! News | 2015 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show | 2015 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The Insider | 2014-2015 | TV Series | Herself |
| People Magazine Awards | 2014 | TV Special | Herself |
| Sesame Street | 2014 | TV Series | Herself |
| Late Show with David Letterman | 2008-2014 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Live with Kelly and Michael | 2012-2014 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards | 2014 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Outstanding Reality-Competition Program |
| Teen Choice Awards 2014 | 2014 | TV Special | Herself - in pre-taped segment |
| The 66th Primetime Emmy Nominations Annoucement | 2014 | TV Movie | Herself - Host |
| The Hollywood Reporter Roundtables | 2014 | TV Series | Herself |
| 2014 MTV Movie Awards | 2014 | TV Special | Herself - Cameo #43 |
| Chelsea Lately | 2011-2014 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Charlie Rose | 2014 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Talking Dead | 2014 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2014 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter (uncredited) |
| The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards | 2013 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Outstanding Reality-Competition Program |
| Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | 2009-2013 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Fox Fall Preview | 2013 | TV Movie | Herself |
| Top Chef Masters | 2013 | TV Series | Herself - Quickfire Judge |
| The Office Retrospective | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Herself / Kelly Kapoor |
| Katie | 2013 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The Daily Show | 2011-2013 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The 39th Annual People's Choice Awards | 2013 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
| Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings | 2012 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | 2009-2012 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards | 2012 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series |
| Metaphysical Milkshake | 2012 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2012 | TV Special | Herself |
| Lopez Tonight | 2011 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Nick Kroll: Thank You Very Cool | 2011 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 2010 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards | 2010 | TV Special | Herself - Co-Nominated: Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Comedy Series |
| A Night of 140 Tweets: A Celebrity Tweet-A-Thon for Haiti | 2010 | Video | Herself |
| The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien | 2009 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Saturday Night Live | 2009 | TV Series | Herself |
| Comic-Con '08 Live | 2008 | TV Movie | Herself |
| Take Home Handyman | 2007 | TV Series | Herself |
| 2007 AZN Asian Excellence Awards | 2007 | TV Special | Herself |
| Late Night with Conan O'Brien | 2007 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 2006 | TV Special | Herself |
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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| 2016 | BTVA Feature Film Voice Acting Award | Behind the Voice Actors Awards | Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film | Inside Out (2015) |
| 2016 | BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Award | Behind the Voice Actors Awards | Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film | Inside Out (2015) |
| 2014 | Gracie | Gracie Allen Awards | Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series | The Mindy Project (2012) |
| 2014 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical | The Mindy Project (2012) |
| 2013 | BTVA Feature Film Voice Acting Award | Behind the Voice Actors Awards | Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film | Wreck-It Ralph (2012) |
| 2013 | BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Award | Behind the Voice Actors Awards | Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film | Wreck-It Ralph (2012) |
| 2013 | Gracie | Gracie Allen Awards | Outstanding Producer - Entertainment | The Mindy Project (2012) |
| 2008 | Actor | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2007 | Gold Derby TV Award | Gold Derby Awards | Ensemble of the Year | The Office (2005) |
| 2007 | Actor | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2007 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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| 2016 | BTVA Feature Film Voice Acting Award | Behind the Voice Actors Awards | Best Female Vocal Performance in a Feature Film in a Supporting Role | Inside Out (2015) |
| 2015 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series | The Mindy Project (2012) |
| 2015 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series | The Mindy Project (2012) |
| 2014 | Gold Derby TV Award | Gold Derby Awards | Comedy Lead Actress | The Mindy Project (2012) |
| 2014 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series | The Mindy Project (2012) |
| 2014 | Teen Choice Award | Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV Actress: Comedy | The Mindy Project (2012) |
| 2014 | TCA Award | Television Critics Association Awards | Individual Achievement in Comedy | The Mindy Project (2012) |
| 2013 | Actor | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2013 | Teen Choice Award | Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV Actress: Comedy | The Mindy Project (2012) |
| 2013 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | New Series | The Mindy Project (2012) |
| 2012 | Actor | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2011 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2011 | Actor | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2011 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2010 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2010 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2010 | Gold Derby TV Award | Gold Derby Awards | Comedy Episode of the Year | The Office (2005) |
| 2010 | Actor | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2010 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2009 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2009 | Actor | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2009 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2008 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2008 | Gold Derby TV Award | Gold Derby Awards | Ensemble of the Year | The Office (2005) |
| 2008 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2008 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2007 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2006 | Gold Derby TV Award | Gold Derby Awards | Ensemble of the Year | The Office (2005) |
| 2006 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Comedy Series | The Office (2005) |
| 2006 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | New Series | The Office (2005) |
