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 Vera Mindy Chokalingam is an Indian-American actress, comedienne, producer, writer and director from Cambridge, Massachusetts known for playing Kelly Kapoor from The Office, Disgust from Inside Out and creating The Mindy Project. She also acted in Wreck-It Ralph, Despicable Me, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Ocean's 8 and Monsters at Work. She had two children.
Bio:
Vera Mindy Chokalingam is an Indian-American actress, comedienne, producer, writer and director from Cambridge, Massachusetts known for playing Kelly Kapoor from The Office, Disgust from Inside Out and creating The Mindy Project. She also acted in Wreck-It Ralph, Despicable Me, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Ocean's 8 and Monsters at Work. She had two children.
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Her mother, Swati Chokalingam (1945-2012) was an OB/GYN physician and once worked in the same Boston hospital with Ronald Krasinski, the internist father of her The Office (2005) (TV) co-star, John Krasinski.Mindy's late mother was an OB/GYN doctor, inspiring many of the story lines in The Mindy Project (2012).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.Was the first female member of The Office (2005) (TV) writing staff when she began there at age 26.Has a daughter, Katherine Swati Kaling (b. December 15, 2017 in Los Angeles at 10:50 am). Katherine's middle name, Swati, honors her late grandmother, who died of pancreatic cancer in January 2012.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'.Co-wrote the acclaimed play "Matt and Ben", a comedy about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. She played the role of Ben.Her parents, Swati (Raisircar) and Avu Chokalingam, met in Nigeria, and were both Indian. Her father is Tamil and her mother was Bengali.One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2013).Counts Fawlty Towers (1975) among some of her earliest comedic writing influences.Gave birth to son Spencer Avu Kaling on 3 September 2020.Graduated from Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1997 along with Alison Folland.Has described her parents as "confirmed conservative Republicans.".Mindy Kaling was one of the producers who won the Tony Award for Best Musical (2022) for "A Strange Loop".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)'. |
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Mindy Kaling |
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Actress,Producer,Writer (IMDB) |
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All World |
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IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actress,Producer,Writer |
| Products for sale: |
Actress,Producer,Writer |
| Model rank: |
635 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 03:41:22 |
| Height: |
5' 4' (1.63 m) |
| Biography: |
Vera Mindy Chokalingam is an Indian-American actress, comedienne, producer, writer and director from Cambridge, Massachusetts known for playing Kelly Kapoor from The Office, Disgust from Inside Out and creating The Mindy Project. She also acted in Wr |
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Her mother, Swati Chokalingam (1945-2012) was an OB/GYN physician and once worked in the same Boston hospital with Ronald Krasinski, the internist father of her The Office (2005) (TV) co-star, John Krasinski.Mindy's late mother was an OB/GYN doctor, inspiring many of the story lines in The Mindy Project (2012).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.Was the first female member of The Office (2005) (TV) writing staff when she began there at age 26.Has a daughter, Katherine Swati Kaling (b. December 15, 2017 in Los Angeles at 10:50 am). Katherine's middle name, Swati, honors her late grandmother, who died of pancreatic cancer in January 2012.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'.Co-wrote the acclaimed play "Matt and Ben", a comedy about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. She played the role of Ben.Her parents, Swati (Raisircar) and Avu Chokalingam, met in Nigeria, and were both Indian. Her father is Tamil and her mother was Bengali.One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2013).Counts Fawlty Towers (1975) among some of her earliest comedic writing influences.Gave birth to son Spencer Avu Kaling on 3 September 2020.Graduated from Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1997 along with Alison Folland.Has described her parents as "confirmed conservative Republicans.".Mindy Kaling was one of the producers who won the Tony Award for Best Musical (2022) for "A Strange Loop".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)'. |
| Quotes: |
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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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.
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[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.
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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.
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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. |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Writer |
| Others works: |
(2008) She starred in the web comedy series "Erik the Librarian" for 60Frames Entertainment.
(11/11) Book: "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)" (Crown Archetype).
(2013) TV commercial: "Xfinity" X-1 Pl |
| Children: |
Katherine Swati Kaling |
| Parents: |
Swati Raisircar
Avu Chokalingam |
| Relatives: |
Vijay Chokalingam (Sibling) |
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