Kumail Nanjiani
Kumail Ali Nanjiani (born May 2, 1978) is a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, and screenwriter. He is primarily known for his role as Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley (2014–2019) and for co-writing and starring in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick (2017). For co-writing the latter with his wife, Emily V. Gordon, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Nanjiani has also voiced Prismo on the animated series Adventure Time and starred in the TNT series Franklin & Bash and the Adult Swim series Newsreaders. He also co-hosted the Comedy Central show The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, as well as playing various roles on the comedy series Portlandia.
Acted in
Destroy All Neighbors
2024
as Smelting Refinery Guard
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024
as Nadeem Razmaadi
Migration
2023
as Mack Mallard (voice)
Krapopolis
2023
as Spartan Army Leader (voice)
Project Greenlight
2023
as Self
Attack of the Doc!
2023
as Self
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
History of the World: Part II
2023
Welcome to Chippendales
2022
as Somen 'Steve' Banerjee
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022
as Self - Haja Estree
Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space
2022
as Howell (voice)
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022
as Haja Estree
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
2022
as Vik (voice)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals
2022
as Self - Kingo
Murderville
2022
as Kumail Nanjiani
Eternals
2021
as Kingo
A Night at the Academy Museum
2021
as Self
Ultra City Smiths
2021
as Arjit Pondicherry
Only Murders in the Building
2021
as Rudy Thurber
Roll Up Your Sleeves
2021
as Self
Death to 2020
2020
as Bark Multiverse
The Lovebirds
2020
as Jibran
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
2020
as Self
Dolittle
2020
as Plimpton (voice)
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
2019
as Self
Bless the Harts
2019
as Jesus (voice)
Bless the Harts
2019
as Jesus Christ (voice)
The Boys
2019
as Kumail Nanjiani (uncredited)
Stuber
2019
as Stu
Men in Black: International
2019
as Pawny (voice)
The Twilight Zone
2019
as Samir Wassan
It Started As a Joke
2019
as Self
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize
2018
as Self
Duck Butter
2018
as Jake
Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity
2018
as Self
Lie Detector
2018
as Self
Poop Talk
2018
as Self
Big Mouth
2017
as himself (voice)
The Lego Ninjago Movie
2017
as Jay (voice)
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
2017
as Perry
The Big Sick
2017
as Kumail Nanjiani
Fist Fight
2017
as Officer Mehar
The Late Bloomer
2016
as Rich
Brother Nature
2016
as Riggleman
HarmonQuest
2016
as Eddie Lizzard
HarmonQuest
2016
as Eddie Lizard
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
2016
as Keanu
Central Intelligence
2016
as Jared the Airport Security Guard
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
as Nasir
Hell & Back
2015
as Dave the Demon (voice)
Addicted to Fresno
2015
as Damon
Flock of Dudes
2015
as Ro
Major Lazer
2015
as Thor (voice)
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
2015
as Brad
Misery Loves Comedy
2015
as Self
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2014
as Cute-ling Mayor (voice)
Bee and PuppyCat
2014
as Howell (voice)
Garfunkel and Oates
2014
as Jordan
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail
2014
as Self
Sex Tape
2014
as Punit
The Last of the Great Romantics
2014
as George the Counter Guy
Silicon Valley
2014
as Dinesh Chugtai
TripTank
2014
as Dick Genie (voice)
Loaded
2014
as Raza
Broad City
2014
as Benny Calitri
Timms Valley
2013
as Arjit Pondicherry
Hell Baby
2013
as Cable Guy
Bad Milo!
2013
as Bobbi
Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male
2013
as Himself
The Jeselnik Offensive
2013
as Self
The Kings of Summer
2013
as Gary
The Arrangement
2013
as Alfred Dalton
Bunk
2012
Burning Love
2012
as Zakir
The Eric Andre Show
2012
as Self
The Five-Year Engagement
2012
as Pakistani Chef
Veep
2012
as Statistician
Franklin & Bash
2011
as Pindar Singh
Portlandia
2011
as Cell Phone Salesman
Portlandia
2011
as Birthday Loan Officer
Portlandia
2011
as Human Bandwidth Manager
Portlandia
2011
as Denim Salesman
Portlandia
2011
as SoCal Waiter
Bob's Burgers
2011
as Skip Marooch (voice)
Bob's Burgers
2011
as Skip (voice)
Life As We Know It
2010
as Simon
Reggie Watts: Why Shit So Crazy?
2010
Adventure Time
2010
as Prismo (voice)
Ugly Americans
2010
as Neilando Patel (voice)
Community
2009
as Lapari
Archer
2009
as Farooq Ashkani (voice)
Michael & Michael Have Issues
2009
as Kumail
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
as Self - Judge
The X-Files
1993
as Pasha
The Simpsons
1989
as Theo (voice)
The Doubtful Guest
Thread: An Insidious Tale
A Guy Walks Into a Bar
Ella McCay
Burning Love 2
as Zakir