Actor

Kal Penn

April 23, 1977 · 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".

Notable work

7.9
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
as Kevin Campbell
8.6
House (2004)
as Lawrence Kutner
8.1
American Horror Story (2011)
as Mac Marzara
8.1
How I Met Your Mother (2005)
as Kevin Venkataraghavan
5.8
Superman Returns (2006)
as Stanford
8
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
as Henry Chanoor
6.7
Smile (2022)
as Dr. Morgan Desai
7.7
SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)
as Himself
6.6
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
as Kumar Patel
8.1
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
as Hunt
4.2
Son of the Mask (2005)
as Jorge
6
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
as Taj Mahal Badalandabad

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