Kumail Ali Nanjiani (/kʊˈmeɪl ˌnɑːndʒiˈɑːni/; Sindhi: ڪميل علي نانجياڻي; Urdu: کمیل علی نانجیانی; born May 2, 1978) is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian and actor. He is 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, they were 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. He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role in The Twilight Zone executive produced by Jordan Peele in 2019.
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 and played various roles on the comedy series Portlandia. He also played Kingo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero film Eternals and What If...? Episode What If... Agatha Went to Hollywood?, con artist Haja Estree in the Disney+ miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi and celebrity scientist Vik in the television series The Boys Presents: Diabolical and The Boys. In 2022, he starred in the lead role of the Hulu miniseries Welcome to Chippendales. In 2023, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie category for his work in Welcome to Chippendales.
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The Doubtful Guest
Ella McCay
2025
Destroy All Neighbors
Smelting Refinery Guard
2024
Grave Conversations
Self · (1 episode)
2024
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Nadeem
2024
After Midnight
Self · (1 episode)
2024
Migration
Mack Mallard (voice)
2023
Krapopolis
Spartan Army Leader (voice) · (1 episode)
2023
Dr Phil LIVE!
Self · (1 episode)
2023
Project Greenlight
Self · (10 episodes)
2023
Attack of the Doc!
Self
2023
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
History of the World: Part II
(1 episode)
2023
Poker Face
Joseph 'Gator Joe' Pilson · (1 episode)
2023
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self · (2 episodes)
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Self - Haja Estree
2022
Bee and PuppyCat
Howell (voice) · (3 episodes)
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Haja Estree · (3 episodes)
2022
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Vik (voice) · (1 episode)
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals
Self - Kingo
2022
Murderville
Kumail Nanjiani · (1 episode)
2022
Eternals
Kingo
2021
A Night at the Academy Museum
Self
2021
Only Murders in the Building
Rudy Thurber · (7 episodes)
2021
What If...?
Kingo (voice) · (1 episode)
2021
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
Self
2020
Thread: An Insidious Tale
Reunited Apart
Self · (1 episode)
2020
The Kelly Clarkson Show
(2 episodes)
2019
Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik
Self · (1 episode)
2019
The Boys
Kumail Nanjiani (uncredited) · (1 episode)
2019
The Twilight Zone
Samir Wassan · (1 episode)
2019
Lie Detector
Self · (1 episode)
2018
Poop Talk
Self
2018
Big Mouth
himself (voice) · (1 episode)
2017
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Jay (voice)
2017
The Big Sick
Kumail Nanjiani
2017
Fist Fight
Officer Mehar
2017
The Late Bloomer
Rich
2016
Brother Nature
Riggleman
2016
HarmonQuest
Eddie Lizzard · (1 episode)
2016
HarmonQuest
Eddie Lizard · (1 episode)
2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Keanu
2016
Central Intelligence
Jared the Airport Security Guard
2016
Chelsea
Self · (1 episode)
2016
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Nasir
2015
Hell and Back
Dave the Demon (voice)
2015
The Grinder
Prosecutor Leonard · (2 episodes)
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(1 episode)
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · (1 episode)
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · (2 episodes)
2015
Flock of Dudes
Ro
2015
Major Lazer
Thor (voice) · (1 episode)
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2015
Hot Ones
Self · (1 episode)
2015
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Brad
2015
Misery Loves Comedy
Self
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · (1 episode)
2014
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Cute-ling Mayor (voice) · (1 episode)
2014
Garfunkel and Oates
Jordan · (1 episode)
2014
Sex Tape
Punit
2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Self · (2 episodes)
2014
TripTank
Dick Genie (voice) · (1 episode)
2014
Loaded
Raza
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (4 episodes)
2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self · (1 episode)
2014
Broad City
Benny Calitri · (1 episode)
2014
Timms Valley
Arjit Pondicherry
2013
@midnight with Chris Hardwick
Self · (2 episodes)
2013
Hell Baby
Cable Guy
2013
Bad Milo!
Bobbi
2013
Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male
Himself
2013
Drunk History
Lakota Chief · (1 episode)
2013
The Jeselnik Offensive
Self · (2 episodes)
2013
The Last Leg
Self · (1 episode)
2013
The Kings of Summer
Gary
2013
A Guy Walks Into a Bar
The Breadwinner
2026
Conan O'Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Self
2025
Is / Was \ Will
2025
Welcome to Chippendales
Somen 'Steve' Banerjee · (8 episodes)
2022
Roll Up Your Sleeves
Self
2021
Death to 2020
Bark Multiverse
2020
The Lovebirds
Jibran
2020
Dolittle
Plimpton (voice)
2020
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
Self
2019
Bless the Harts
Jesus (voice) · (4 episodes)
2019
Stuber
Stu Prasad
2019
Men in Black: International
Pawny (voice)
2019
It Started As a Joke
Self
2019
Duck Butter
Jake
2018
Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity
Self
2018
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
Perry
2017
Addicted to Fresno
Damon
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self · (2 episodes)
2015
The Last of the Great Romantics
George the Counter Guy
2014
The Arrangement
Alfred Dalton
2013
The Five-Year Engagement
Pakistani Chef
2012
Any Person, Living Or Dead
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail
Self · (24 episodes)
2014
Silicon Valley
Dinesh Chugtai · (53 episodes)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2014
Bunk
(3 episodes)
2012
Franklin & Bash
Pindar Singh · (31 episodes)
2011
Life As We Know It
Simon
2010
Reggie Watts: Why Shit So Crazy?
2010
The Wrong Girls
Driver's Ed
Burning Love
Zakir · (14 episodes)
2012
The Eric Andre Show
Self · (1 episode)
2012
Veep
Statistician · (1 episode)
2012
TableTop
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2012
Key & Peele
College Kid #1 · (1 episode)
2012
Portlandia
Cell Phone Salesman · (1 episode)
2011
Portlandia
Birthday Loan Officer · (1 episode)
2011
Portlandia
Human Bandwidth Manager · (1 episode)
2011
Portlandia
Denim Salesman · (1 episode)
2011
Portlandia
SoCal Waiter · (7 episodes)
2011
Bob's Burgers
Skip Marooch (voice) · (1 episode)
2011
Bob's Burgers
Skip (voice) · (1 episode)
2011
Conan
Self · (2 episodes)
2010
The Green Room with Paul Provenza
Self · (1 episode)
2010
Adventure Time
Prismo (voice) · (6 episodes)
2010
Ugly Americans
Neilando Patel (voice) · (1 episode)
2010
Community
Lapari · (2 episodes)
2009
Archer
Farooq Ashkani (voice) · (1 episode)
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
2009
Michael & Michael Have Issues
Kumail · (7 episodes)
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge · (1 episode)
2009
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · (1 episode)
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · (3 episodes)
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest Host · (1 episode)
2003
The View
Self · (1 episode)
1997
The View
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1997
The X-Files
Pasha · (1 episode)
1993
The Simpsons
Theo (voice) · (1 episode)
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
(2 episodes)
1988
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (1 episode)
1975
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · (1 episode)
1975