Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling

Vera Mindy Chokalingam[1] (born June 24, 1979),[1][2] known professionally as Mindy Kaling (/ˈkeɪlɪŋ/), is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer.[3] 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.[4] For her work on the series, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series.

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Kaling gained wider attention for creating, producing and starring in the Fox comedy series The Mindy Project (2012–2017). She created the NBC sitcom Champions (2018), also appearing in five episodes, the Hulu miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019), the Netflix comedy-drama series Never Have I Ever (2020–present), the HBO Max comedy-drama series The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021–present), Snowball Fight (2022-2023), and the HBO Max animated series Velma (2023).

Her film career includes voiceover work in Despicable Me (2010), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and Inside Out (2015). She had roles in comedy films, such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), No Strings Attached (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), The Night Before (2015), 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.[6] She also received a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop.

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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).[8][9] She has an elder brother, Vijay.[10][11] Kaling’s parents are from India[12] and met while working at the same hospital in Nigeria. Her father, a Tamil raised in Chennai,[13][14] was overseeing the building of a hospital wing. Her mother, a Bengali[15][16] from Mumbai,[13][14] was working as an OB/GYN.[17] The family immigrated to the United States in 1979, the same year Kaling was born.[4] Kaling's mother died of pancreatic cancer in 2012.

Kaling has said she has never been called Vera, her first name,[21] 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."[21] 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).[citation needed.

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