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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…
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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
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2026
Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
Movie Dr. Sandeep Kapoor
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2025
Celebrity Weakest Link
TV show Self - Contestant
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2024
The Underdoggs
Movie Ryan Kauffman
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2023
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
TV show Ventakish (voice)
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2023
Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong
Movie Self
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2022
The Santa Clauses
TV show Simon Choksi
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2022
Smile
Movie Dr. Morgan Desai
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2021
Hot Mess Holiday
Movie Kal Penn
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2021
Untitled Horror Movie
Movie Mark
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2021
Clarice
TV show Shaan Tripathi
- 2021
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2021
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
TV show Self - Contestant
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2021
Name That Tune
TV show Self - Contestant
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2020
Industry
TV show Jay 'Jonah' Atterbury
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2020
Kal Penn Approves This Message
TV show Self - Host
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2020
The Girl in the Woods
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2020
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
TV show Self - Contestant
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2020
Mira, Royal Detective
TV show Mikku (voice)
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2019
Sunnyside
TV show Garrett Modi
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2019
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
TV show Self
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2018
Fancy Nancy
TV show Mr. Singh (voice)
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2018
The Ashram
Movie Nitin
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2017
The Problem with Apu
Movie Self
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2017
The Layover
Movie Anuj
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2017
Superhuman
TV show Self - Host
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2017
Once Upon a Time in Venice
Movie Rajeesh
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2017
Speech & Debate
Movie James
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2016
Better Off Single
Movie Brice
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2016
Designated Survivor
TV show Seth Wright
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2016
The $100,000 Pyramid
TV show Self
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2016
Match Game
TV show Self - Panelist
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2016
To Tell the Truth
TV show Self - Panelist
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2015
The Girl in the Photographs
Movie Peter Hemmings
- 2015
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2015
Emily & Tim
Movie Tim (Segment 2)
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2015
The Sisterhood of Night
Movie Gordy Gambhir
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2015
The Big Picture with Kal Penn
TV show Himself - Host
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV show Self - Guest
