| Net Worth: | $35 Million |
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| Date of birth: | June 24, 1979 (45 years old) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Profession: | Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Television Director, Television Producer, Voice Actor |
| Nationality: | American |
Mindy was born June 24, 1979 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has Indian ancestry and her original name is Vera Mindy Chokalingam. Her most famous roles are Kelly Kapoor on TV series The Office and Mindy Lahiri on sitcom The Mindy Project. Forthis show, Mindy is not only starring but also writing scripts. In 2013, Mindy was chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred most influential people. She also won Gracie Award in 2014.
Career
Career: After college, Kaling moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she briefly worked as a production assistant. During this time, she also started doing stand-up comedy and developed the stage name “Kaling” after she noticed that people would frequently mispronounce her last name. Her big break came in 2002 when she starred in the off-Broadway production Matt & Ben, which critics calling the show a “surprise hit.” Kaling also co-wrote the play.
Quotes
“Catharsis isn’t art. You can’t rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something’s shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That’s not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.”
— Mindy Kaling
“I would love to be married. But it’s not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.”
— Mindy Kaling
“I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.”
— Mindy Kaling
“I’ve always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it’s the right way to do things. It’s a deeply Indian custom – that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse’s parents and you take care of them eventually.”
— Mindy Kaling
“My dad’s whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn’t have that big Indian community. I don’t really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, ‘meh, let’s talk about something else.’”
— Mindy Kaling