Aziz Ansari (born February 23, 1983) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known as one of the stars of the critically acclaimed sketch comedy series Human Giant on MTV, for which he is also a writer and executive producer and as Tom Haverford on the hit NBC comedy Parks and Recreation.
Ansari was born in Columbia, South Carolina to Muslim Indian Tamil parents. He graduated from the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathema...
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Aziz Ansari (born February 23, 1983) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known as one of the stars of the critically acclaimed sketch comedy series Human Giant on MTV, for which he is also a writer and executive producer and as Tom Haverford on the hit NBC comedy Parks and Recreation.
Ansari was born in Columbia, South Carolina to Muslim Indian Tamil parents. He graduated from the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics.
Ansari graduated in 2004 from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, where he majored in Marketing. He resides in Los Angeles.
Ansari began his career performing stand-up comedy in New York City while attending college at New York University. He frequently performed at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre. In 2005, Rolling Stone included him in their annual "Hot List" as their choice for the "Hot Standup" and he won the Jury Award for "Best Standup" at HBO's 2006 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. He...
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