Kal Penn

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Film & TV

Acting · 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…

Known for

• Celebrity Weakest Link — Self - Contestant2025
• The Underdoggs — Ryan Kauffman2024
• Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong — Self2023
• Scott Pilgrim Takes Off — Ventakish (voice)2023
• Smile — Dr. Morgan Desai2022
• The Santa Clauses — Simon Choksi2022
• Hot Mess Holiday — Kal Penn2021
• Untitled Horror Movie — Mark2021
• Clarice: Behind the Scenes with Stars and Producers — Self2021
• Clarice — Shaan Tripathi2021

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

51

Total plays

353

Kalpen Suresh Modi (born April 23, 1977), best known by his stage name Kal Penn, is an American film actor and politician. As an actor, he is known for his role on the television program House portraying the character Dr. Lawrence Kutner and in the Harold and Kumar comedy films as Kumar Patel. He is also recognized for the critically acclaimed film The Namesake. Penn has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania as a visiting lecturer in the Cinema Studies Program. <a href="https://www.last

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,691x

2. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,250x

3. Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK

   · 2021 · cited 4,163x

4. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger^*

   · 2017 · cited 3,665x

5. A Randomized Comparison of Coronary-Stent Placement and Balloon Angioplasty in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease

   · 1994 · cited 3,372x

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Quotes

• ““I said, ‘This going to perhaps sound cheesy, but two of the things I love the most are making people laugh and America,’…I like patriotism. There is an underlying theme of patriotism in all of the Harold and Kumar movies for example. I love that feeling because it’s very much my sense of humor, which is sort of aspirational as opposed to cynical.”
• “I mean no disrespect to any of our current climate at all, but I have been an actor for almost two decades now, and this is a dream come true to be able to create a network comedy that just makes people laugh…What I love about comedy is that, like music, sports and food, it brings us all together.”
• “Through that process, I was just working on the outreach team, but because of that I was meeting people who were undocumented, people whose families were impacted by it, and obviously huge advocacy organizations. That stuff stays with you. It was, of course, the basis for some of the characters and some of their stories and the lives that they live…”

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Key facts

President

Barack Obama

Born

Kalpen Suresh Modi , ( 1977-04-23 ) April 23, 1977 (age 49) , Montclair, New Jersey , U.S.

Party

Democratic

Domestic partner s

Josh (2010–present; engaged)

Education

University of California, Los Angeles ( BA )

Occupation

Actor author former civil servant

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