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Vera Mindy Chokalingam[1] (born June 24, 1979),[1][2] known professionally as Mindy Kaling (/ˈkeɪlɪŋ/), is an American actress, screenwriter, and producer.[3] She has received numerous awards for her work, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Tony Award, and was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards.
Kaling was recognized by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013. A decade later she received the Producers Guild of America's Norman Lear Achievement in Television Award, and was awarded the National Medal of the Arts from President Joe Biden.[4][5]
She first gained recognition starring as Kelly Kapoor in the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013), for which she also served as a writer, executive producer, and director.[6] For her work on the series, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series. Kaling gained wider attention for creating, producing and starring as Dr. Mindy Lahiri in the Fox comedy series The Mindy Project (2012–2017). She then expanded her career creating numerous shows such as the NBC sitcom Champions (2018), the Hulu miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019), the Netflix comedy series Never Have I Ever (2020–2023) and the HBO Max comedy series The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021–present).[7]
Her film career includes voice roles in Despicable Me (2010), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and Inside Out (2015) as well as live action roles in No Strings Attached (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), A Wrinkle in Time and Ocean's 8 (both 2018), and Late Night (2019), the last of which she also wrote and produced. Her memoirs, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) (2011) and Why Not Me? (2015), reached The New York Times Best Seller list.[8] She also received a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop.[9] In 2012, Kaling founded the production company, Kaling International.[10]
Early life
Vera Mindy Chokalingam was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to father Avudaiappan Chokalingam, an architect, and mother Swati Chokalingam née Roy-Sircar, an obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN).[11][12] She has an elder brother, Vijay.[13][14] Kaling's parents are from India[15] and met while working at the same hospital in Nigeria. Her father, a Tamilian raised in Chennai,[16][17] was overseeing the building of a hospital wing. Her mother, a Bengali[18][19] from Mumbai,[16][17] was working as an OB/GYN.[20] The family immigrated to the United States in 1979, the same year Kaling was born.[6] Kaling's mother died of pancreatic cancer in 2012.[21][22][23]
Kaling has said she has never been called Vera, her first name,[24] but has been referred to as Mindy since her mother was pregnant with her while her parents were living in Bengal. They were already planning to move to the United States and wanted, Kaling said, a "cute American name" for their daughter, and liked the name Mindy from the TV show Mork & Mindy. The name Vera is, according to Kaling, the name of the "incarnation of a Hindu goddess."[24] Kaling graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, in 1997. The following year, she entered Dartmouth College, where she was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Dog Day Players and the a cappella group The Rockapellas, was the creator of the comic strip Badly Drawn Girl in The Dartmouth (the college's daily newspaper), and was a writer for the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern (the college's humor magazine).[25][26]
Kaling graduated from Dartmouth College in 2001[27] with a bachelor's degree in playwriting.[28] She was a classics major for much of college and studied Latin, a subject she had been learning since the seventh grade.[20] Kaling lists the comedy series Dr. Katz, Saturday Night Live, Frasier and Cheers as early influences on her comedy.[29]
Career
2002–2004: Career beginnings
While a 19-year-old sophomore at Dartmouth, Kaling was an intern on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.[30] Kaling has said that she never saw a family like hers on TV, which gave her a dual perspective she uses in her writing.[31] She thinks the "everyone against me" mentality is what she learned as a child of immigrants.[31] She named her Mindy Project character Mindy Lahiri after author Jhumpa Lahiri.[32] After college, Kaling moved to Brooklyn, New York.[6] Kaling said one of her worst job experiences was as a production assistant for three months on the Crossing Over With John Edward psychic show.[24] She described it as "depressing."[33] During this same time, Kaling performed stand-up comedy.[31]
Kaling devised her stage name after discovering while doing stand-up comedy that emcees would have trouble pronouncing her last name, Chokalingam, and sometimes made jokes about it.[31] She toured solo as well as with Craig Robinson before he was on The Office.[20] In August 2002, Kaling portrayed Ben Affleck in an off-Broadway play called Matt & Ben,[34] which she co-wrote with her best friend from college, Brenda Withers—who played Matt Damon. The play was named one of Time magazine's "Top Ten Theatrical Events of The Year" and was "a surprise hit" at the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival.[6] Initially, Withers and Kaling had, "for their own entertainment, mockingly pretended to be the best friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck; that pretending spawned Matt & Ben, the goofy play that reimagined how Damon and Affleck came to write the movie Good Will Hunting."[6]
Kaling wrote a blog, Things I've Bought That I Love,[6] which reemerged on her website on September 29, 2011.[35] The blog was written under the name Mindy Ephron, "a name Kaling chose because she was amused by the idea of her 20-something Indian-American self as a long-lost Ephron sister."[6]
2004–2011: Breakthrough and The Office
In 2004, when The Office producer Greg Daniels was working to adapt The Office from the BBC TV series of the same name, he hired Kaling as a writer-performer after reading a spec script she wrote. He said, "She's very original ... If anything feels phony or lazy or passé, she'll pounce on it."[6] When Kaling joined The Office, she was 24 years old and was the only woman on a staff of eight.[6] She took on the role of character Kelly Kapoor, debuting in the series' second episode, "Diversity Day".[28] Kaling's TV appearances include a 2005 episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing Richard Lewis's assistant. She is featured on the CD Comedy Death-Ray and guest-wrote parts of an episode of Saturday Night Live in April 2006.[28][33] After her film debut in The 40-Year-Old Virgin with Steve Carell, Kaling appeared in the film Unaccompanied Minors as a waitress.
In an interview with The A.V. Club, she stated that Kelly is "an exaggerated version of what I think the upper-level writers believe my personality is."[33] Kaling directed The Office webisode The 3rd Floor.[36] She directed the Season 6 episode "Body Language," which marked her television directorial debut. In 2007, she had a small part in License to Wed alongside fellow Office actors John Krasinski, Angela Kinsey, and Brian Baumgartner. Kaling starred in the 2009 film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian as a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum tour guide.
Her contract was set to expire at the end of Season 7. On September 15, 2011, she signed a new contract to stay with the show for Season 8 and was promoted to full executive producer.[37] Her Universal Television contract included a development deal for a new show (eventually titled The Mindy Project), in which she appeared as an actress and contributed as a writer.[6] Kaling left The Office after the ninth-season episode "New Guys". However, she returned to guest-star in the final episode of the series. In 2011, Kaling published a memoir, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), which appeared on the New York Times best-seller list.[38] Her second book, Why Not Me?, covers the events that have happened in her life since 2011, and was published on September 15, 2015. Why Not Me? launched at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list.[39] She published a third memoir, Nothing Like I Imagined (Except For Sometimes), with Amazon Original Stories in 2020.
Kaling and her fellow writers and producers of The Office were nominated five consecutive times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. In 2010, she received a nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series with Daniels for the episode "Niagara."[40] However, in a 2019 interview with Elle Magazine, Kaling spoke about the sexism faced by the Television Academy, because Kaling had to go through great lengths to prove her contribution as a producer after being informed by the television academy she was going to be cut from the producer list, because there were too many producers.[41] To receive her rightful producing credit when the Office was nominated for an Emmy for an Outstanding Comedy Series, she stated, "They made me, not any of the other producers, fill out a whole form and write an essay about all my contributions as a writer and a producer," Kaling told Elle of how her name ultimately got put on the Emmys list. "I had to get letters from all the other male, white producers saying that I had contributed, when my actual record stood for itself."[42] The Emmys rebutted Kaling's statement in an interview with Refinery 29, but Kaling clarified in a series of tweets of choosing to make that statement during the Elle interview, as necessary, because it was part of her story, of the sexism faced during her tenure at The Office, before Kaling's star power grew, honoring the challenges faced as she reflected on her career success to Elle.
In 2011, she played the role of Shira, a doctor who is a roommate and colleague of the main character Emma (played by Natalie Portman) in No Strings Attached. Kaling also made an appearance as Vanetha in The Five-Year Engagement in 2012.
2012–present: Producing and film work
In 2012, Kaling pitched a single-camera comedy[43] to Fox called The Mindy Project, which Kaling wrote, produced and starred in.[44] Fox began airing the series in 2012. Also in 2012, Kaling founded the production company, Kaling International.[10]
In 2013, she had a cameo as herself in This is the End.[45] Also in 2013, Time magazine named one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[46] Fox canceled her series The Mindy Project in May 2015, with it later being picked up by Hulu for a 26-episode fourth season and a 16-episode fifth season. In March 2017, Kaling announced that the show's sixth season, which would air starting September 2017, would be the last.[47] The series concluded on November 14, 2017.
Kaling voiced Taffyta Muttonfudge in Disney's animated comedy film Wreck-It Ralph and Disgust in Pixar's 2015 film Inside Out. In 2017, NBC ordered Champions, where Kaling is a co-creator, writer, and producer.[7] She had a recurring guest role on the show, which premiered March 8, 2018, on NBC.[48] It was cancelled after one season. In 2018, she played Mrs. Who in A Wrinkle in Time, the live-action Disney adaptation of the novel, and starred alongside Helena Bonham Carter, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Awkwafina and Rihanna in Ocean's 8, the all-female version of Ocean's Eleven.[49] In 2020, Kaling created the Netflix series Never Have I Ever with Lang Fisher, a comedy partially based on Kaling's childhood story growing up in the Boston area.[50] It premiered on Netflix on April 27, 2020, and is about an Indian American high school student, played by Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, dealing with the death of her father.[51] The series received positive reviews.[52] CNN and Teen Vogue have described the series as a watershed moment for South Asian representation in Hollywood, and praised Kaling for breaking South Asian stereotypes.[53][54]
In February 2021, HBO Max announced they had ordered the adult-oriented Scooby-Doo spin-off series Velma, with Kaling as executive producer as well as voicing the titular character.[55][56][57] The series premiered on January 12, 2023, to mixed reviews from critics and overwhelmingly negative reactions from both general audiences and non-critics.[58][59][60] Velma became one of the lowest-rated television shows on IMDb,[61][62] receiving similar low scores from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes and Google.[58][59][63]
In 2023, she was appointed as a board member along with historian June Li and Young Yang Chung for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art.[64]
Upcoming projects
Kaling is set to co-write the third installment in the Legally Blonde series with Dan Goor.[65][66] The film was scheduled to be released in May 2022,[67] but has been indefinitely delayed due to scripting.[68] She is also committed to re-team with Dan Goor to write and star alongside Priyanka Chopra in a comedy about an Indian-American wedding under Universal.[69][70]
Personal life
Kaling has two children: a daughter born in December 2017, and a son born in September 2020. She has kept the paternity of her children private.[71] She is an adherent of Hinduism and has expressed her desire to give her children a Hindu upbringing.[72][73][74]
Kaling has a close friendship with B. J. Novak, whom she met through writing for The Office, with Novak calling Kaling "the most important person in my life" (on Fresh Air with Terry Gross). The two dated on and off while writing and acting on the show.[75] Novak is the godfather of Kaling's two children.[76][77]
In 2012, Kaling was included in the Time 100 list of influential people.[78] In 2014, she was named one of Glamour's Women of the Year.[79] On June 10, 2018, she received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.[80]
Kaling owns one per cent of the Welsh football team Swansea City.[81]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The 40-Year-Old Virgin | Amy | |
| 2006 | Unaccompanied Minors | Restaurant Hostess | |
| 2007 | License to Wed | Shelly | |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | The Docent | |
| 2010 | Despicable Me | The Tourist Mom (voice) | |
| 2011 | No Strings Attached | Shira | |
| 2012 | The Five-Year Engagement | Vaneetha | |
| Wreck-It Ralph | Taffyta Muttonfudge (voice) | ||
| 2013 | This Is the End | Herself | |
| 2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | Helen of Troy (voice) | Uncredited role |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Disgust (voice) | |
| Riley's First Date? | Short film | ||
| The Night Before | Sarah | ||
| 2018 | A Wrinkle in Time | Mrs. Who | |
| Ocean's 8 | Amita | ||
| 2019 | Late Night | Molly Patel | Also writer and producer |
| 2021 | Locked Down | Kate |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005–2013 | The Office | Kelly Kapoor | Main role |
| 2005 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Richard Lewis' Assistant | Episode: "Lewis Needs a Kidney" |
| 2012–2017 | The Mindy Project | Dr. Mindy Lahiri | Main role; also creator |
| 2014 | Sesame Street | Herself | Episode: "The Enthusiastic Penelope Penguin" |
| 2015 | The Muppets | Episode: "Single All the Way"[82] | |
| 2017 | Animals | Sandy (voice) | Episode: "Squirrels" |
| 2018 | Future-Worm! | Additional voices | Episode: "Megan Muck Wars" |
| Champions | Priya Patel | Also co-creator, writer, and producer 5 episodes[83] | |
| It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Cindy | Episode: "The Gang Makes Paddy's Great Again" | |
| 2019 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | — | Creator |
| 2019–2023 | The Morning Show | Audra Khatri | 5 episodes |
| 2020–2023 | Never Have I Ever | — | Creator |
| 2021 | Monsters at Work | Val Little (voice) | 10 episodes |
| 2021–present | The Sex Lives of College Girls | — | Creator |
| 2023 | Velma | Velma Dinkley (voice) | Main role |
Writing credits
| Series | Year | Season | Episode | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Office | 2005 | Season 1 | Episode 6 | "Hot Girl" | |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | "The Dundies" | |||
| 2006 | Episode 12 | "The Injury" | |||
| Episode 18 | "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" | ||||
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | "Diwali" | |||
| 2007 | Episode 15 | "Ben Franklin" | |||
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | "Branch Wars" | |||
| 2008 | Episode 15 | "Night Out" | |||
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | "Frame Toby" | |||
| 2009 | Episode 16 | "Lecture Circuit: Part 1" | |||
| Episode 17 | "Lecture Circuit: Part 2" | ||||
| Episode 19 | "Golden Ticket" | ||||
| Season 6 | Episode 4 & 5 | "Niagara" | |||
| Episode 13 | "Secret Santa" | ||||
| 2010 | Episode 16 | "The Manager and the Salesman" | |||
| Episode 22 | "Secretary's Day" | ||||
| Season 7 | Episode 5 | "The Sting" | |||
| Episode 11 & 12 | "Classy Christmas" | ||||
| 2011 | Episode 21 | "Michael's Last Dundies" | |||
| Season 8 | Episode 10 | "Christmas Wishes" | |||
| 2012 | Episode 17 | "Test the Store" | |||
| The Mindy Project | Season 1 | Episode 1 | "Pilot" | ||
| Episode 2 | "Hiring and Firing" | ||||
| Episode 5 | "Danny Castellano Is My Gynecologist" | ||||
| Episode 8 | "Two is One" | ||||
| 2013 | Episode 12 | "Hooking Up Is Hard" | |||
| Episode 13 | "Harry & Sally" | ||||
| Episode 16 | "The One That Got Away" | ||||
| Episode 24 | "Take Me With You" | ||||
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | "All My Problems Solved Forever..." | |||
| Episode 8 | "You’ve Got Sext" | ||||
| 2014 | Episode 13 | "L.A." | |||
| Episode 14 | "The Desert" | ||||
| Episode 22 | "Danny and Mindy" | ||||
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | "We're a Couple Now, Haters!" | |||
| Episode 6 | "Caramel Princess Time" | ||||
| 2015 | Episode 15 | "Danny Castellano Is My Nutritionist" | |||
| Episode 21 | "Best Man" | ||||
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | "While I Was Sleeping" | |||
| Episode 13 | "When Mindy Met Danny" | ||||
| 2016 | Episode 14 | "Will They or Won't They" | |||
| Episode 18 | "Bernardo & Anita" | ||||
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | "Decision 2016" | |||
| 2017 | Season 6 | Episode 1 | "Is That All There Is?" | ||
| Episode 9 | "Danny in Real Life" | ||||
| Episode 10 | "It Had To Be You" | ||||
| Champions | 2018 | Season 1 | Episode 1 | "Pilot" | |
| Episode 2 | "I Think I'm Gonna Tolerate It Here" | ||||
| Episode 4 | "My Fair Uncle" | ||||
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | 2019 | Season 1 | Episode 1 | "Kash With a K" | |
| Episode 2 | "Hounslow" | ||||
| Never Have I Ever | 2020 | Season 1 | Episode 1 | "Pilot" | |
| Episode 4 | "... felt super Indian" | ||||
| 2021 | Season 2 | Episode 1 | "...been a playa" | ||
| The Sex Lives of College Girls | Season 1 | Episode 1 | "Welcome to Essex" | ||
| Episode 6 | "Parents Weekend" |
Directing credits
| Year | Title | Season | Episode | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Office: Subtle Sexuality | Episode 1 | Creative Differences | Mini-webseries | |
| Episode 2 | The Replacement | ||||
| Episode 3 | The Music Video | ||||
| 2010 | The Office | Season 6 | Episode 23 | "Body Language" | |
| The Office: The 3rd Floor | Episode 1 | Moving On | Mini-webseries | ||
| Episode 2 | Lights, Camera, Action! | ||||
| Episode 3 | The Final Product | ||||
| 2011 | The Office | Season 7 | Episode 21 | "Michael's Last Dundies" | |
| The Office: The Girl Next Door | Episode 1 | The Story of Subtle Sexuality | Mini-webseries | ||
| Episode 2 | The Girl Next Door |
Awards and nominations
In 2013, Entertainment Weekly identified Kaling as one of the "50 Coolest and Most Creative Entertainers" in Hollywood.[84] In the same year, Kaling was recognized by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[46] In March 2023, Kaling was awarded the 2021 National Medal of Arts from the US president Joe Biden in the White House.[85]
Bibliography
- Kaling, Mindy, and Brenda Withers. Matt & Ben: A New Play. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2004; ISBN 978-1-585-67571-5
- Kaling, Mindy. Unbelievable Holiday Tales: Scripting a Fantasy of a Family, The New York Times, December 18, 2009.[88]
- Kaling, Mindy. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), New York: Crown Archetype, 2011; ISBN 978-0-307-88627-9; OCLC 698332696
- Kaling, Mindy. Questions I Ask When I Want to Talk About Myself: 50 Topics to Share With Friends, Clarkson Potter, 2013; ISBN 978-0-449-81988-3
- Kaling, Mindy. Why Not Me?, New York : Crown Archetype, 2015; ISBN 978-0-804-13814-7; OCLC 910914690
- Kaling, Mindy. Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes), Amazon Original Stories, 2020
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External links
- Mindy Kaling at IMDb