Kal Penn

Kal Penn as Kumar in New Line's Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle - 2004

Biography

Born 04/23/1977

Breaking into Hollywood as a leading actor has always been difficult, but for Asians it has been next to impossible. Though there has been plenty of opportunity for Indian actors to play cab drivers, 7-11 clerks or medical students with incoherent accents, the standard leading man has been—for...
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Highlights

  • In 2009, Took a leave from acting and accepted a position as the associate director in the White House's Office of Public Liaison & Intergovernmental Affairs
  • In 2008, Reprised role of Kumar for "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay"
  • In 2007, Played an American-born son of Indian immigrants in director Mira Nair's "The Namesake"

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