Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), better known as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer who stars as Kelly Kapoor on the NBC sitcom The Office. Kaling is also a co-executive producer and writer of several of the Emmy Award-winning show's episodes.
Kaling was born Vera Mindy Chokalingam in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Tamil Hindu parents from India. She graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a private s...
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Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), better known as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer who stars as Kelly Kapoor on the NBC sitcom The Office. Kaling is also a co-executive producer and writer of several of the Emmy Award-winning show's episodes.
Kaling was born Vera Mindy Chokalingam in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Tamil Hindu parents from India. She graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge in 1997. The following year, she began attending Dartmouth College, where she was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe "The Dog Day Players" and the a cappella group "The Rockapellas", the creator of the comic strip "Badly Drawn Girl" in The Dartmouth (the college's mainstream newspaper), as well as writing for the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern (the college's humor magazine) . She graduated in 2001. In 2003, she portrayed Ben Affleck in a play entitled "Matt & Ben", which she also co-wrote. The play was named one of...
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