Mindy Kaling
editPersonal Life controversy about brother's book http://nypost.com/2016/10/15/mindy-kalings-family-feud-exposes-americas-cultural-divide/
Kaling has said she has never been called Vera, her first name,[1] but has been referred to as Mindy since her mother was pregnant with her while her parents were living in Nigeria. 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."[1]
Kaling has a close friendship with B. J. Novak, whom she met through writing for The Office. The two dated on and off while writing and acting on the show, sometimes mirroring the on-again, off-again nature of the relationship between their respective characters Ryan Howard and Kelly Kapoor.[2][3] Novak served as a consulting producer for Season 1 of The Mindy Project,[4] and has appeared on the show 4 times although his formal producing role ended after the 1st season at his request. His brother Jesse composes the music for The Mindy Project.
When Kaling started doing stand-up, the emcees could never pronounce her last name, Chokalingam, so they made fun of it. Eventually she changed it to Kaling.[5] She stopped doing stand-up because it required a lot more time than she had. She toured solo as well as with Craig Robinson before he was on The Office.[6]
Kaling has said that she never saw a family like hers on TV, which gave her a dual perspective she uses in her writing.[5] The "everyone against me mentality" is what she thinks she learned as a child of immigrants.[5] She loves reading books by Jhumpa Lahiri, with Kaling even naming her Mindy Project character Mindy Lahiri after her.[7]
She lives in West Hollywood, California.
As of late,controversy has surrounded Kaling's family. On September 3, 2016, her brother Vijay Jojo Chokal-Ingam published a memoir titled Almost Black: The True Story of How I Got Into Medical School By Pretending to Be Black.
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Acting
editKaling's TV appearances include a 2005 episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing Richard Lewis's assistant. She is featured on the CD Comedy Death-Ray and guest-wrote parts of an episode of Saturday Night Live in April 2006.[8][9]
After her film debut in The 40-Year-Old Virgin with Steve Carell, Kaling appeared in the film Unaccompanied Minors as a waitress. In 2007, she held a small part in License to Wed starring fellow The Office actors John Krasinski, Angela Kinsey, and Brian Baumgartner. Kaling was in the 2009 film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian as a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum tour guide and voiced Taffyta Muttonfudge in Disney's animated comedy film, Wreck-It Ralph. In 2010, she had a minor voice acting role as a tourist mom in the Universal Pictures animation Despicable Me.
In 2011, she played the role of Shira, a doctor who is a roommate and colleague of the main character Emma (played by Natalie Portman) in No Strings Attached. Kaling also made an appearance as Vanetha in The Five-Year Engagement (2012).[10] Kaling also voiced Disgust in the 2015 Pixar animated film, Inside Out.
In June 2016, it was confirmed that Kaling would star alongside Helena Bonham Carter, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and Rihanna in the all female version of Ocean's Eleven.[11] It was also reported in September 2016 that she will play Mrs. Who in the live-action Disney remake of A Wrinkle in Time.
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