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Mindy Kaling
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OverviewAI-generated
Mindy Kaling is an American person who began her work period in 2003. She is associated with the comedy genre and has been tagged with references to "The Office" and "The Mindy Project." Her social media presence includes 11,779,700 followers.
As an author, Kaling has 17 works listed in the Open Library. Her top works include *Yours for the Season*, *I'll Follow You*, *When Stars Align*, *Rules of Fortune*, and *Drop Dead Sisters*. Crossref data indicates she has five works. On Last.fm, her music has 3,630 listeners and 9,981 plays.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Yours for the Season
- I'll Follow You
- When Stars Align
- Rules of Fortune
- Drop Dead Sisters
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,630
- Total plays
- 9,981
Tags
Standup comedian known for her role as Kelly Kapoor on The Office. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mindy+Kaling">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Candidiasis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America
· 2015 · cited 3,088x
- Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing
· 2019 · cited 2,857x
- Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 2,554x
- Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 2,543x
- New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
· 2022 · cited 2,315x
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Quotes
- “When you’re starting out [as a television writer], mostly it’s terrifying because you think you could get fired and then never get hired again. If you see some of the statistics for women of color on writing staffs, you’ll see that even if there’s parity, it’s so hard to get promoted and stay on a show. A whopping majority of upper-level writers are still white men. You see a lot of people of color in the younger ranks, but it’s hard to move up.”
- “I think there’s been a tendency for people to conflate my characters with my personality. … I wrote 24 episodes of The Office. That’s more than any other person on The Office, but no one can really picture me sitting and doing the hard work of writing the episodes.”
- “I could really relate to [Never Have I Ever], more than anything else that I’ve ever written. I was personally proud of it, but didn’t know how it would be received. And to this day, I think it’s my biggest success in terms of how many people it reached and how popular it was on Netflix. I learned a lesson from it, which is not to be cynical about the public.”
- “I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. …. There is no difference between Ripley from Alien and any Katherine Heigl character.”
- “I'm going to gently assume that if you're reading this book, you are a little bit of a nerd, or perhaps you're a man whose nerd girlfriend is taking a long time in the bathroom and you can't figure out how to turn on her television.”
- “I’m surprised when I remember that, physically, I resemble most women in this country. In the United States, a woman who is 5 feet 4 inches and a size 10 is probably more common than virtually any other body type. But somehow when she is on-screen it’s shocking to people, almost as shocking as seeing a married couple on TV where the man and woman are roughly the same age.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Vera Mindy Chokalingam , ( 1979-06-24 ) June 24, 1979 (age 46) , Cambridge , Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- Dartmouth College ( BA )
- Occupations
- Actress comedian writer producer
- Years active
- 2002–present
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), known professionally as Mindy Kaling (/ˈkeɪlɪŋ/ ), is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Known for her work on television, she has received a Tony Award and six nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Among other honors, she has also received the Producers Guild of America's Norman Lear Achievement in Television Award and was awarded the National Medal of the Arts, which is the highest honor given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government. Kaling founded the production company Kaling International in 2012.
Kaling first gained recognition for playing Kelly Kapoor in the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013), on which she also worked as a writer. Credited with twenty-four episodes, Kaling was the most prolific writer among the staff. For her work on it, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. She gained wider attention for creating, producing and playing the title role in the Fox/Hulu sitcom The Mindy Project (2012–2017). She then created other television comedies, including Never Have I Ever (2020–2023), The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021–2025), and Running Point (2025–present).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mindy Kaling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.